THE DIAPASON JULY 2019 Westport Presbyterian Church Kansas City, Missouri Cover feature on pages 22–23 PHILLIP TRUCKENBROD CONCERT ARTISTS ANTHONY & BEARD ADAM J. BRAKEL THE CHENAULT DUO PETER RICHARD CONTE CONTE & ENNIS DUO LYNNE DAVIS ISABELLE DEMERS CLIVE DRISKILL-SMITH DUO MUSART BARCELONA JEREMY FILSELL MICHAEL HEY HEY & LIBERIS DUO CHRISTOPHER HOULIHAN DAVID HURD MARTIN JEAN HUW LEWIS RENÉE ANNE LOUPRETTE LOUPRETTE & GOFF DUO ROBERT MCCORMICK BRUCE NESWICK ORGANIZED RHYTHM RAéL PRIETO RAM°REZ JEAN-BAPTISTE ROBIN ROBIN & LELEU DUO BENJAMIN SHEEN HERNDON SPILLMAN CAROLE TERRY JOHANN VEXO BRADLEY HUNTER WELCH JOSHUA STAFFORD THOMAS GAYNOR 2016 2017 LONGWOOD GARDENS ST. 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Please www.TheDiapason.com An International Monthly Devoted to the Organ, stay tuned for further updates on this important endeavor to the Harpsichord, Carillon, and Church Music make our website one of the world’s fi nest for organ and church Our cover feature this month is Pasi Organbuilders Opus music research! Visit www.thediapason.com often! The website 24, recently completed for Westport Presbyterian Church, CONTENTS is continuously updated with news, events, and more. Kansas City, Missouri. The instrument is an integral part of the FEATURES rebuilding campaign of this congregation, whose previous edi- J. S. Bach’s Organ Music and Lutheran In this issue fi ce was destroyed by fi re in 2011. In Organ Projects, we learn Theology: The Clavier-Übung Third Part Our feature article this month is a fascinating examination of J. 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Nicholas Schmelter and Tyler Kivel Westport Presbyterian Church Kansas City, Missouri Cover feature on pages 22–23 Chicago Temple), Chicago, Illinois, Tyler Kivel and Nicholas Schmelter COVER are performing more than ten concerts Pasi Organ Builders, Inc., Roy, Washington; Merrill Auditorium, Portland, Maine, in a three-state Midwest tour of piano- Westport Presbyterian Church, Kotzschmar Organ organ duo recitals. The ensemble has Kansas City, Missouri 22 Northfi eld United Methodist Church, realized new arrangements and tran- Northfi eld, Minnesota, Kney organ Friends of the Kotzschmar scriptions of selections by Debussy, Editorial Director STEPHEN SCHNURR Organ announces events featuring the Fauré, Grainger, Lutosławski, Milhaud, and Publisher [email protected] The 2019 Northfi eld Noontime Kotzschmar Organ at Merrill Audito- Poulenc, Saint-Saëns, Shostokovich, and 847/954-7989 Organ Recital Series announces its rium, Portland, Maine: August 2, James others. 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