September 2006
Gober Organs, Inc., Elora, Ontario, Canada
The Oratory, St. Benedict’s Monastery, St. Joseph, Minnesota
This one-manual organ was conceived expressly for gentle support of singing in the daily prayer services of this Benedictine womens’…
Kegg Pipe Organ Builders, Hartville, Ohio
The Sharkey-Corrigan Organ, Texas A&M International University, Laredo, Texas
From the President of the University
Like a birth in the family, a new organ fills the community with expectation…
The 2006 Institute for Sacred Music sponsored by the University of Iowa was held January 26–28 in Iowa City. This year’s presenters included Don Saliers, who is the William R. Cannon Distinguished Professor of Theology and Worship at Emory…
One advantage of retirement is having the luxury of hearing colleagues and ensembles here and abroad. Of course you don’t have to be retired, but the freedom to plan your own time helps. I have taken a number of European musical tours:…
“Why not just one more?”
The great number of takes and inserts in the recording sessions at Kirchheimbolanden reflect the typical tally for any stop on the trip—in total, more than 1500 separate segments and snippets amassed by the time…
Hooray, hooray for the Mozart trip—we are delighted at the prospect of another race through Europe with you!” So began the aerogram from E. Power Biggs that Georg Steinmeyer opened in Oettingen, Bavaria, one day in May, 1955. Biggs had…
From the ashes
In the September 2005 issue of The Diapason, I wrote about the destruction of a venerable pipe organ in a Boston church. E. & G. G. Hook’s Opus 253 of three manuals and 25 stops was built in 1859 and was destroyed on…
Forrest Campbell Mack died on May 24 at the University Commons Nursing Home in Worcester, Massachusetts; he was 64. Born on January 18, 1942, in Newburyport, Massachusetts, he was a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst…
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