Nunc Dimittis

Sankt Andreas Kirke in Copenhagen is home to a collection of nine small church organs built in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, all of which were collected from throughout Denmark and which represent various Danish builders

At the north end of Copenhagen’s city center, nestled peacefully near the botanical gardens on Gothersgade, lies the Sankt Andreas Kirke.

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Austin Organs, Inc.,
Hartford, Connecticut, has installed a new Antiphonal organ at Christ Church
Cathedral, Hartford. The cathedral dates from 1828, and was subsequently
supplied with successive organs by Erben, Hook & Hastings, and Skinner.
Austin #2417 was installed in the chancel in 1965. At that time, preparations
were made in the console for an Antiphonal division to be placed in the rear
gallery, but nothing occurred until 2000 when a move was started to fit a
Trumpet in the rear gallery.

Part 1 was published in the October 2007 issue of The Diapason. This second section is more personal.

Sunday, July 30, 2000 was the 250th anniversary of the death
of Johann Sebastian Bach, and throughout Thüringen there were major
celebrations to honor the day.  In
Arnstadt, where in 1703 a very young Bach took on the post of organist at the
Neue Kirche (now known as the Bachkirche), there was a special religious
service that featured the organ and Bach's choral music sung by invited
choirs from other parts of Germany.