April 2005
Cover Feature
Mander Organs, London, England
West Parish Church of Barnstable, West Barnstable,
Massachusetts
In 1616, the year of William Shakespeare’s death and
probably but a stone’s throw from his Globe Theatre at Southwark just
south…
A. E. Schlueter Pipe Organ Company, Lithonia, Georgia
Chester Presbyterian Church, Chester, Virginia
The new pipe organ for Chester Presbyterian Church is a custom-built
instrument comprising 31 ranks of pipes playable on two manuals and…
Noack Organ Company Opus 145 First Congregational Church, Swampscott, Massachusetts
It began around 1999 with that nagging and increasingly hard to ignore problem--”We’ve got to do something about that organ!” But the congregation of the…
Sunday
The day's events began with the Annual Meeting held at the headquarters hotel with OHS President Michael Friesen presiding. Among the items of general interest was a report by Scot Huntington on the following organ preservation…
For its forty-ninth annual convention, the Organ Historical Society met in Buffalo, the land of Bills and Wings, with headquarters at the Adam’s Mark Hotel, close to the waterfront marina. Nearly four hundred people were in attendance. The…
In January 2005, Wicks Opus 4497 left Highland, Illinois for the second time. The organ was designed and built in 1965 for Sacred Heart Cathedral in Rochester, New York, and originally represented a bold, new step in design and tonal…
Tuesday, September 28
Wall sconces taking the form of artillery shells line the nave of the Protestant Cadet Chapel of the United States Military Academy at West Point, home of what began as M.P. Möller’s Opus 1201 of 1911. Now IV/380, it…
The pipe organ gives us all a lot to talk about. We can trace its history back to the panflutes of the sixth century B.C. The hydraulis, the earliest real pipe organ we know of (complete with keyboard, a mechanical action controlling…
Facsimiles from Fuzeau: Sources for Lifelong Learning
Alternately fascinating and frustrating, facsimiles of original manuscripts and printed editions have become increasingly available. For the harpsichordist there is little that is more…
James A. Burns (Brother Gregory), Oblate of Quarr Abbey, Isle of Wight, composer, professor of chant, organist, and choirmaster, died February 3 of congestive heart failure. Born in 1924 in New Orleans, he held church positions there and…
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