June 2025

Ortloff Organ Company, LLC, Needham, Massachusetts; Saint John’s Episcopal Church, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Rosemary brought the first box. It was plain brown cardboard, thin, waxed—the kind of container in which you take home leftovers from a restaurant.

Part 2 of this series appeared in the July 2025 issue

Pulling stops by hand?

I had my first organ lessons in 1968 with Alastair Cassels-Brown, who was organist and professor of music at the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on the western edge of Harvard Square. The school merged with Philadelphia Divinity School and was renamed the Episcopal Divinity School. The campus was closed and sold to Lesley University in 2018.

Bach Sous les Tilleuls (Bach Under the Lime Trees), Loris Barrucand and Clément Geoffroy harpsichordists. L’Encelade, ECL2303E, €18. Available from encelade.net.

John Francis Kriebel