August 2024
The Yale Institute of Sacred Music (ISM) is an interdisciplinary graduate center for the study and practice of sacred music, worship, and the related arts. Its students pursue degrees in choral conducting, organ, and concert voice with the…
Sitting on the parapet of the story where the towers arise from the massive corpus are all kinds of devilish things that were contrived by a grandiose imagination and captured in the grinning stone by a forceful and strict hand. Wondrous…
The Diapason’s 20 under 30 winners represent leaders not only in performance (organ, harpsichord, carillon, and church music), but also those who build, restore, and maintain instruments. In our first interview with a young builder, we…
Listen to the voices.
Alan Laufman, who founded the Organ Clearing House in 1961, was in his final illness during the summer of 2000 when he asked me to join the company to help its work continue when he was finished. During that summer…
The harpsichord: an introduction, part 1
This month’s column, my first after a hiatus caused by now-resolved orthopedic issues, is my first in a short series of columns about the harpsichord. Since 1990 I have presented summer workshops to…
Emma Lou Diemer
Emma Lou Diemer, born in Kansas City, Missouri, November 24, 1927, died June 2, 2024, in Santa Barbara, California. She played piano and composed at a very early age, and she became organist in her church at age 13. Her…
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