May 1999
A Harpsichordist's Magazine Rack
Recent issues of Early Music, the sumptuously-produced quarterly journal from Oxford University Press, have had little of specific interest to harpsichordists. In the issue for August 1998 (XXVI/3) Simon…
New carillon in West Virginia
Nestled in the southern West Virginia Appalachian mountains, atop the administration building of a small liberal arts college, stands one of the newest additions to the world of carillons. This beautiful 48-…
Michael Farris, Associate Professor of Organ at the Eastman School of Music since 1994 and co-chair of the Keyboard Department, died on March 27. Dr. Farris was 41.
Born in Clovis, New Mexico, on May 5, 1957, Michael Delman Farris…
The new organ at St. James's Episcopal Church, Richmond,
Virginia, was designed and built by C. B. Fisk, Inc., of Gloucester,
Massachusetts. Opus 112 of the Fisk firm, the three-manual instrument of 62
ranks is housed in a linen white case…
The third annual East Carolina Religious Arts Festival was held in Greenville, North Carolina January 28-30, sponsored by the School of Music of East Carolina University and directed by Janette Fishell. Presenters included Sandra Willetts…
Organbuilding in the United States and Canada is a thriving art practiced in hundreds of shops throughout the continent. Emerging from decades of stylistic extremes, organbuilders are combining a wealth of knowledge from the past with new…
I read with very great interest and pleasure the recent contribution by Jan Overduin to The Diapason1, "Bach and Die Kunst der Fuge." Therein, the author presented about two dozen typical examples, illustrating how the composer has…
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