September 2005
Mid-Atlantic Organ Company, Charlotte, North Carolina
Covenant Presbyterian Church, Charlotte, North Carolina
The Aeolian-Skinner organ at Covenant Presbyterian Church
was completed in late 1953 and first played for worship on December 20…
Dobson Pipe Organ Builders,
Lake City, Iowa, Op. 79, 2004
Shepherd of the Bay Lutheran Church, Ellison Bay, Wisconsin
Door County, a peninsula jutting into the northern waters of
Lake Michigan, is Wisconsin’s answer to Cape Cod. Part of…
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The balance of this article will explore some of the methods used by Schoenstein in designing symphonic organs.
Tonal Variety
In planning a symphonic organ, no tone color that might be useful is excluded from consideration, and if…
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By the time the romantic era concluded in the 1930s, the organ, at its best, after centuries of progress, had achieved a level of musical expressiveness and technical sophistication that placed it in the mainstream of musical life. Its…
Each one of us surely has an individual concept of sin, generally from direct personal experience: I sometimes describe it as “anything that is more fun for the doer than for someone else!” Defining commission might be slightly more…
Is there really no such thing as bad publicity?
I had my first real job in an organbuilder’s workshop during the summer after my freshman year in college. I’ve often told the story of my first day--I was stationed outside in the parking…
Joy Anne Moore Marsh died peacefully at her home in Plano, Texas, on July 9. She was 69. Born in Dallas on July 19, 1935, she graduated from North Dallas High School in 1953. She earned her bachelor of music degree in organ from Southern…
Sym·po´si·um. 2. A conference at which a particular subject is discussed and opinions gathered.1 Although advertised as an eight-day event, the third biennial symposium sponsored by the American Organ Archives of the Organ Historical…
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