May 2005
Nichols & Simpson, Inc., Organbuilders,
Little Rock, Arkansas
Church of the
Redeemer, Sarasota, Florida
Nichols & Simpson, Inc., Organbuilders, has built a new organ for Church
of the Redeemer in Sarasota, Florida. The 47-stop,…
Taylor & Boody Organbuilders, Staunton, Virginia
Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana
About the organ.
Designing an organ for Rieth Hall at Goshen College was a
pleasure. The opportunity to place the organ in the traditional location, high…
SE: Please comment about the Gleasons, their teaching, and working with both of them.
RG: They’re both gone now. Harold way back [1980] and Catharine more recently [2003].
SE: How did they compare as teachers?
RG: Quite different from one…
Robert Glasgow, Professor of Music at The University of Michigan, will celebrate his 80th birthday on May 30, 2005. In honor of this occasion, I was delighted to be invited by Jerome Butera, editor of The Diapason, to interview Professor…
“When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life, for London holds all that life affords.” So wrote Samuel Johnson in the eighteenth century, words that still hold true today. To paraphrase, it could also be said that “When an organist…
In 1854, Richard Pohl, editor of the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, reported hearing Franz Liszt in Weimar, Germany, play a combination piano-harmonium, a newly developed instrument built to Liszt’s specifications. In September of that year…
Semantic antics and a few rhetorical questions
What does it mean to restore an organ?
If you start with a simple ordinary pipe organ in poor condition, releather windchests, add a few stops, revoice a few more, and install a fancy solid-…
Edward H. Holloway, 79, died February 9 in Zionsville, Indiana. He leaves behind his wife of 56 years, Doralyn “Lynne” Holloway, a sister, two daughters, four grandchildren, and five great-grand children. Born November 9, 1925, he…
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