March 2016
Peter Collins, British organbuilder, died October 24, 2015, after a brief illness. Born in 1914, Collins established his own organbuilding firm in 1954, after serving as apprentice with Bishops of London and Rieger of Austria. During his…
William Bolcom’s Compositions
for Solo Harpsichord
The path to knowledge is oft-times a roundabout one! Preparing to write an essay on harpsichord music of the modern revival period, I decided to solicit lists of favorite pieces from this…
It’s all about the wind.
Wendy and I have a neat little sailboat named Kingfisher. It’s nothing fancy, just twenty-two feet long. It’s a catboat with a single sail, gaff rig, and broad beam—it’s not quite half as wide as it is long. It’s a…
Velocity IV
My approach to helping someone to play fast has been rooted in ways of discovering that the fingers of each hand separately can move very fast when playing one line or voice—one note at a time. There are two parts to this. One…
When Scott Smith Pipe Organs was first brought in to evaluate the organ at First Congregational Church in Saginaw, Michigan, we had a very limited knowledge of the instrument, only that it was a late 1920s Skinner in a rapidly failing…
The fall organ conference, held September 13–16, 2015, at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music (JSoM), was a mix of the practical, the academic, and the experiential. This year’s conference addressed the necessary changes…
The late Jacques van Oortmerssen’s four-day Bach Academy in Amsterdam last summer ran from July 6–9. It consisted of morning and afternoon classes on the beautiful 1734 Müller organ at the Waalse Kerk (the Walloon Church), where he had…
In January 2015, The Diapason partnered with the Chicago and Fox Valley chapters of the American Guild of Organists and the Chicago-Midwest Chapter of the Organ Historical Society in presenting a Midwinter Pipe Organ Conclave, a two-day…
Messiah Lutheran Church,
Seattle, Washington
Marceau Pipe Organ Builders, Ltd., Seattle, Washington
Opus 32, 2014
Marceau Pipe Organ Builders has completed their Opus 32, a two-manual and pedal organ for Messiah Lutheran Church in the…
Noack Organ Company, Georgetown, Massachusetts
Richard Houghten,Milan, MichiganChurch of the Incarnation,Dallas, Texas
From the consultant
Church of the Incarnation has a music program any traditionalist would envy. Each Sunday has two…
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