February 2010

Kegg Pipe Organ Builders, Hartville, Ohio: Christ Episcopal Church,
Eureka, California

Goulding & Wood, Inc.,
Indianapolis, Indiana: Opus 28 (1996) and Opus 49 (2009)
First United Methodist Church, Rocky Mount, North Carolina

In the Prussian capital, Berlin, Abbé Vogler arranged the conversion of the Wagner organ at St. Mary’s in 1800–01, carried out by local organ builder Johann Friedrich Falckenhagen (1752–1823)

News of a Chopin composition in two voices (without specific indication of instrumental medium), a work almost completely unknown, but a worthwhile piece playable on the manuals of the harpsichord (or organ): the composer’s unique Fugue in A Minor

Led by Marilyn Mason and Gale Kramer, the University of Michigan Historic Tour LVI began on the Mediterranean in sunny Barcelona, then traversed France

The Bedient crew returned to the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, this fall to install four organs that were damaged by flooding last year

Ornamentaton can be made much less difficult through the right kind of technical preparation and through an adequate amount of well-targeted practice

When it’s all done we sit down to play--we hear the magic of air-driven musical sound reverberating through the building

10, 25, 50, and 75 years ago in THE DIAPASON

Sister Marie Theodore Girten, OP, Markwell James Perry, Lorraine Schramm, Richard A. Starkjohann, Sister Cecil Steffen, OP (Edmund), Sally Slade Warner,