THE DIAPASON NOVEMBER 2020 Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall Atlantic City, New Jersey Cover feature on pages 14–20 PHILLIP TRUCKENBROD CONCERT ARTISTS ADAM J. BRAKEL THE CHENAULT DUO PETER RICHARD CONTE LYNNE DAVIS ISABELLE DEMERS CLIVE DRISKILL-SMITH DUO MUSART BARCELONA JEREMY FILSELL MICHAEL HEY HEY & LIBERIS DUO CHRISTOPHER HOULIHAN DAVID HURD MARTIN JEAN BÁLINT KAROSI JEAN-WILLY KUNZ HUW LEWIS RENÉE ANNE LOUPRETTE ROBERT MCCORMICK JACK MITCHENER BRUCE NESWICK ORGANIZED RHYTHM RAÚL PRIETO RAM°REZ JEAN-BAPTISTE ROBIN BENJAMIN SHEEN HERNDON SPILLMAN JOSHUA STAFFORD CAROLE TERRY JOHANN VEXO W͘K͘ŽdžϰϯϮ ĞĂƌďŽƌŶ,ĞŝŐŚƚƐ͕D/ϰဒϭϮϳ ǁǁǁ͘ĐŽŶĐĞƌƚĂƌƟƐƚƐ͘ĐŽŵ ĞŵĂŝůΛĐŽŶĐĞƌƚĂƌƟƐƚƐ͘ĐŽŵ ဒϲϬͲϱϲϬͲϳဒϬϬ ŚĂƌůĞƐDŝůůĞƌ͕WƌĞƐŝĚĞŶƚ WŚŝůůŝƉdƌƵĐŬĞŶďƌŽĚ͕&ŽƵŶĚĞƌ BRADLEY HUNTER WELCH SEBASTIAN HEINDL INSPIRATIONS ENSEMBLE ϮϬϭဓ>ÊĦóÊÊ'ÙÄÝ /ÄãÙÄã®ÊĽKÙ¦Ä ÊÃÖã®ã®ÊÄt®ÄÄÙ THE DIAPASON Editor’s Notebook Scranton Gillette Communications One Hundred Eleventh Year: No. 11, 20 Under 30 Class of 2021 Whole No. 1332 The Diapason’s 20 Under 30 Class of 2021 will recognize NOVEMBER 2020 young women and men whose career accomplishments place Established in 1909 them at the forefront of the organ, church music, harpsichord, Stephen Schnurr ISSN 0012-2378 carillon, and organbuilding fields—before their 30th birthday. 847/954-7989; [email protected] Please consider students, colleagues, or friends worthy of this www.TheDiapason.com An International Monthly Devoted to the Organ, honor. (Self-nominations are not accepted.) Nominees will be the Harpsichord, Carillon, and Church Music evaluated on the basis of how they demonstrate such traits a three-year subscription. (Digital and student subscrip- and accomplishments as leadership skills, creativity and inno- tions receive one free CD for a one-year subscription.) CONTENTS vation, career advancement, technical skills, and community Visit www.thediapason.com/subscribe. outreach. Evaluation will consider such things as awards FEATURES An organbuilder’s early career and competition prizes, publications and compositions, In this issue explorations: Bedient Opus 1 offices held, and significant positions. Nominations will open Our cover feature is the 1929–1932 Midmer-Losh, Inc., by Gene Bedient 10 December 1, 2020, and close February 1, 2021. Opus 5550 in Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall of Atlantic City, Creating a pipe organ: Artisans at work, Nominees cannot have reached their 30th birthday before New Jersey. This monumental instrument has experienced Part 3 January 31, 2021. Nominees not selected in a previous year can by Steve Riskind 12 considerable ongoing restoration efforts, and the result of this be nominated again. work is apparent as the organ is now played publicly often in NEWS & DEPARTMENTS Evaluation of nominations and selection of the members demonstrations and recitals. Editor’s Notebook 3 of the Class of 2021 will take place in March. The awardees Gene Bedient provides a brief account of his early days and Letters to the Editor 3 will be announced in the May 2021 issue of The Diapa- experiences in organbuilding, as the firm he founded, Bedi- Here & There 3 son. For information and to nominate (after December 1), ent Pipe Organ Co., recently marked its fiftieth anniversary. Appointments 6 visit www.thediapason.com and click on 20 Under 30. We present the third and final installment of Steve Riskind’s Nunc Dimittis 6 photographic essay on organbuilding artisans at work, featur- In the wind . by John Bishop 8 A free gift with new subscriptions and ing the Peragallo Pipe Organ Company and A. David Moore, REVIEWS gift subscriptions Inc. John Bishop, in “In the wind . .,” remembers Alan Book Reviews 21 A subscription to The Diapason makes the perfect gift Laufman on the twentieth anniversary of his death. Laufman New Organ Music 21 for friends who share your interest in the organ, church was a singularly important figure in resurrecting appreciation New Recordings 22 music, harpsichord, and carillon. Just in time for the holidays, for older American pipe organs in the late twentieth century New Handbell Music 23 we are extending our promotional offering of new Raven and was the first director of the Organ Clearing House. “New NEW ORGANS 13 CDs for new and gift subscriptions. 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I click on the CD’s cover image to reveal COVER Midmer-Losh, Inc., Merrick, Long Island, The tour was canceled in March, pre- have filed a complaint with the New York the booklet. For most recent releases, New York, Opus 5550 (1929–1932); sumably because of COVID, although I Attorney General. I have had an attorney the online booklet is in full color, format- Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall, was never informed there were enough write Concept Tours for an explanation. ted for an iPad or iPhone screen, and Atlantic City, New Jersey 14 participants for the tour to happen in With all due respect, I would like my may contain additional information not spite of the pandemic. I was promised money returned. found in the printed book. 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Roger Sherman [email protected] 847/391-1048 couple months I received a letter from Shelley Hardin The Gothic Catalog the owner stating they were closing Pocatello, Idaho gothic-catalog.com Editor-at-Large ANDREW SCHAEFFER [email protected] Sales Director JEROME BUTERA Here & There [email protected] 608/634-6253 Circulation/ Subscriptions THE DIAPASON Correction Events The Cathedral of St. Mary of the P.O. Box 300 In Colin MacKnight’s article, Assumption, San Francisco, California, Lincolnshire, IL. 60069-0300 “Schumann’s B-A-C-H Fugues: the gen- resumes recitals, Sundays at 4:00 p.m.: [email protected] Toll-Free: 877/501-7540 esis of the ‘Character-Fugue’” (October November 1, St. Mary’s Cathedral Choir, Local: 847/763-4933 2020, pages 12–15), the first sentence Ash Walker, director, and Christoph of the second paragraph should have Tietze, organ, Duruflé, Requiem; 11/8, Designer KELLI DIRKS read: “In German musical parlance, B is Agnieszka Peszko, violin, with Astghik [email protected] B-flat and H is B-natural, allowing one Sakanyan, piano; 11/15, Crista Miller, Contributing Editors LARRY PALMER to turn Bach’s surname into the motive organ; 11/22, Jin Kyung Lim, organ; Harpsichord B-flat, A, C, B-natural.” The editor 11/29, Jonathan Kroepel, organ. BRIAN SWAGER regrets the error. Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption, St. Mary’s Cathedral houses a 1971 Carillon San Francisco, California, Ruffatti organ Fratelli Ruffatti organ of four manuals, ³ page 4 JOHN BISHOP In the wind . THE DIAPASON (ISSN 0012-2378) is published monthly by Scranton Gillette Routine items for publication must be received six weeks in advance of the month of GAVIN BLACK Communications, Inc., 3030 W. Salt Creek Lane, Suite 201, Arlington Heights, Illinois issue. For advertising copy, the closing date is the 1st. Prospective contributors of articles On Teaching 60005-5025. Phone 847/954-7989. Fax 847/390-0408. E-mail: [email protected]. should request a style sheet. Unsolicited reviews cannot be accepted. Subscriptions: 1 yr. $44; 2 yr. $81; 3 yr. $112 (United States and U.S. Possessions). Copyright ©2020. Printed in the U.S.A. Reviewers Stephen Schnurr Canada and Mexico: 1 yr. $44 + $11 shipping; 2 yr.