December 2002
The 52nd annual Sewanee Church Music Conference was held July 15-21 at DuBose Conference Center in Mont-eagle, Tennessee and at the University of the South in Sewanee. Filled to capacity, the conference attracted 159 organists, choir…
John-Paul Buzard Pipe Organ Builders, Champaign, Illinois, Opus 27
St. David's Episcopal Church,
Glenview, Illinois
From the builder
This instrument of 23 stops was installed and completed in
time for Easter Day, 2002. The church's limited…
Gerald Albert Bales died on July 4 at University Hospital, London, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 83 after a heart attack. Born in Toronto in 1919, Bales was first taught by his mother. He gave a piano recital at age seven and an organ…
Making a crescendo with the least number of stops
Perhaps there is no more obvious a signature item on factory-built organs than the ubiquitous crescendo pedal. In most cases, it stands for nothing more than a fuzzy blob of sound, rising…
Mr. Walker studied as an undergraduate at Trinity College, Hartford, with the great Dupré student Clarence Watters. Being thus indoctrinated and equipped with an M.A. from Harvard and the F.A.G.O. certificate, when the war was over Mr.…
Small liberal arts college teaching is an area rich in challenges and creative possibilities. Having taught in the field for the past 34 years has prompted me to reflect on its rich opportunities as well as its perils for those desirous of…
Introduction
The 1930s was a creative era in organ composition, both in Europe and the United States. Frenchman Louis Vierne composed his tonally adventuresome, cyclic Sixième Symphonie in 1930. Fellow compatriot Marcel Dupré's Le Chemin…
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