THE DIAPASON OCTOBER 2020 Organ and Church Music at The University of Kansas The 25th Year of the Bales Organ Recital Hall and Hellmuth Wolff Opus 40 Cover feature on pages 18–19 PHILLIP TRUCKENBROD CONCERT ARTISTS ADAM J. 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And, just in time for the holidays, we 847/954-7989; [email protected] are extending our promotional offering of Raven CDs for new www.TheDiapason.com An International Monthly Devoted to the Organ, and gift subscriptions: one free CD for a one-year subscrip- the Harpsichord, Carillon, and Church Music tion; two CDs for a two-year subscription; and three CDs for a to consider now the young leader you might nominate for three-year subscription. Check it out now at www.thediapason. this important award! Visit thediapason.com and click on “20 CONTENTS com/subscribe. Under 30” to view past honorees and their accomplishments. FEATURES Schumann’s B-A-C-H Fugues: the genesis of Reminders In this issue the “Character-Fugue” Work on our 2021 Resource Directory continues, as it will be Colin MacKnight examines Robert Schumann’s Sechs by Colin MacKnight 12 mailed with the January issue. If your business should be listed Fugen über den Namen BACH für Orgel oder Pianoforte mit Creating a pipe organ: Artisans at work, in the directory and was not included in 2020, please email Pedal, op. 60. We present the second installment of Steve Ris- Part 2 by Steve Riskind 16 me with your contact information. If your business was listed kind’s photographic essay on organbuilding artisans at work, in our directory this year, please review your information to featuring the Peragallo Pipe Organ Company and A. David NEWS & DEPARTMENTS ensure it is accurate and complete. Listings are free. Advertis- Moore, Inc. Editor’s Notebook 3 ing opportunities are available for the directory, as well. For In “On Teaching,” Gavin Black discusses the “toccata princi- Letters to the Editor 3 advertising inquiries, please contact Jerome Butera (jbutera@ pal.” John Bishop, in “In the Wind . .,” reminds readers of the Here & There 3 sgcmail.com; 608/634-6253). The deadline for listings and need to use appropriate care when playing the organ. Appointments 4 advertising is November 1. Our cover feature spotlights the organ and church music pro- Nunc Dimittis 4 Nominations for The Diapason’s 20 Under 30 Class of 2021 gram of the University of Kansas, Lawrence, as well as the 25th Carillon Profile by Kimberly Schafer 6 On Teaching by Gavin Black 9 will open December 1. We will recognize once again young anniversary of Hellmuth Wolff Opus 40 in the university’s Bales In the wind . by John Bishop 10 women and men whose career accomplishments place them at Organ Recital Hall. In “Organ Projects,” Marceau Pipe Organ- the forefront of the organ, church music, harpsichord, carillon, builders has completed a renovation of the Casavant organ in REVIEWS and organbuilding fields, before their thirtieth birthdays. Begin Cross of Christ Lutheran Church, Bellevue, Washington. Q New Organ Music 21 New Recordings 22 Letters to the Editor ORGAN PROJECTS 20 CALENDAR 24 New organ announcements time and money into site visits, travel is not merely a privilege; it has its obliga- RECITAL PROGRAMS 25 Reading the new organ announce- expenses, space studies, and the other tions, too. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING 26 ments in the August issue, page 8, dis- cost-consuming measures a responsible —Jonathan Ambrosino closed a phenomenon I wonder whether proposal requires. Arlington, Massachusetts this publication has the power to refine. Back in the days of sizable shops, The new Ruffatti organ for Notre sales departments, and regional repre- From the Editor: Dame Seminary in Louisiana is, of sentatives, perhaps such discourtesies It is unfortunate these situations occur. course, the kind of announcement The weren’t as glaring. Today, in a greatly In a sense, it is a sign of our times, when Diapason has published forever. Read- reduced market with many fewer pros- common courtesy is not extended to all. ers hope for precisely such news. But pects to go around, such sting is felt It is not possible to vet all organ there is a rub: every other bidder for that more sharply. project matters through the purchasers project learned of Ruffatti’s selection Is it possible for The Diapason of these instruments. If the non-winning only from this announcement, not from to establish a protocol by which such bidders did not receive the courtesy the seminary. announcements are accepted for pub- of learning the decision from the pur- Certainly it is not the duty of suc- lication only upon assurance from the chaser, we certainly could not expect the cessful bidders to notify their competi- organ’s purchaser that all bidders have purchaser to confirm a request that all tors of an outcome. But it is too often been properly notified? It would cer- bidders are notified. In that case, and if the case that prospective customers tainly be considerate of our colleague the projects were not published in the haven’t the decency to inform unsuc- organbuilders, while reminding custom- journal, the rejected bidders still would cessful bidders, who invest significant ers that the commissioning of a project not know the outcome. Q COVER Organ and Church Music at The University of Kansas; The 25th Year of the Bales Organ Recital Hall and Hellmuth Wolff Opus 40 18 Here & There Events Chapel, Hartford, Connecticut; and 10/8, Plutz had planned to perform the sym- Editorial Director STEPHEN SCHNURR and Publisher [email protected] a live recital of works by Vierne. For phonies in various concerts during the 847/954-7989 information: christopherhoulihan.com. 2020 season, these events having been canceled due to the pandemic. Many of President RICK SCHWER these performances will now take place [email protected] 847/391-1048 in 2021. 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