July 2006
Bedient Pipe Organ Company, Roca, Nebraska
St. Agatha Church, Upper Arlington, Ohio
Our Opus 75 represents an entirely new look for the Bedient Pipe Organ Company. Challenged by an unusually long and narrow organ chamber, Bedient designers…
Glück New York Organbuilders, New York, New York
Union Church of Pocantico Hills, Tarrytown, New York
From the pastor: Our latest chapter When Marc Chagall and Henri Matisse never miss a service, and a church is blessed with a warm, close…
The latest in a series of new concert hall organs was recently inaugurated to great fanfare in Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center. Finally able to show off the completed organ in Verizon Hall, Philadelphians were justifiably proud of their…
Not too many of today’s organists have a listing in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. One who does is Thomas Trotter, who has made his mark with a dazzling, effortless technique and compelling interpretations. In 2001 the…
As the world celebrates 250 years of Mozart in 2006, many of us will also be celebrating 100 years of E. Power Biggs (1906–1977). The happy coincidence of yet a third anniversary, the semi-centennial of Biggs’s A Mozart Organ Tour, the…
They don’t make ’em like they used to.
We often come across consumer products that disappoint us. You buy it, get it home, and find that it’s not what you were expecting. Maybe it’s a pair of shoes whose soles come off too soon. Maybe it’s…
Nunc Dimittis: Jim Angell
James B. Angell, University Carillonneur and Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University from 1960–1991, died in San Francisco on February 13. He was 81 and had been afflicted with Parkinson’s…
William A. Hansen, Wisconsin organbuilder, died October 9, 2005, at the age of 68. Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, he began working with an organbuilder in Seattle at age 16, and later worked in San Francisco. He installed organs…
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