Adam Brakel plays the Bossi Etude Symphonique

Appointed organist

Richard French Davidson

Richard French Davidson, 80, died July 13 in Brick, New Jersey. Born June 18, 1942, and raised in Upper Montclair, New Jersey, he was active in the liturgical music of the Episcopal Church from an early age, serving as a chorister at his home parish of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Montclair, New Jersey, as well as seasonally at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City under the direction of Norman Coke-Jephcott.

June 8, on the 1890 Cavaillé-Coll organ at St.-Ouen Abbey Church, Rouen, France

Appointed associate organist and choirmaster