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D I A PA S O N
JUNE 2021
First United Methodist Church
Lubbock, Texas
Cover feature on pages 22–24
PHILLIP TRUCKENBROD
CONCERT ARTISTS
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Calendar of events Director: sschnurr@sgcmail.com.
Memories of Charles Hendrickson The Calendar section of this issue is the largest listing of
by David Engen 14 events in over a year, an encouraging example of a gradual In this issue
Exploring the unknown of BWV 565, return of the arts in daily life. Next month’s issue will include a David Engen offers remembrances of Minnesota organ-
Part 1 summer carillon concert calendar. builder Charles Hendrickson, who died December 17, 2020,
by Michael Gailit 18 If you will be hosting summer organ and carillon recitals at the age of 85. Hendrickson and his firm built over 100
NEWS & DEPARTMENTS and choral events at your church, university, or other venue, instruments by the time of his retirement. Michael Gailit
Editor’s Notebook 3 be sure to let me know. It would be a pleasure to announce as explores the musical motives of J. S. Bach’s Toccata in D
Here & There 3 many events as possible, in the print issue and at the website. Minor, BWV 565i, the first installment of his series. John
Appointments 6 Bishop, in “In the Wind . . .,” explores the importance of π in
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In the wind . . . by John Bishop 12 The second Gruenstein Award, a biennial competition Our cover feature this month spotlights the new Orgues
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Book Reviews 11 Diapason, will recognize the scholarly work of a young author bock, Texas, a four-manual, 75-rank organ, the first completed
New Recordings 25 who has not reached their 35th birthday as of January 31, 2022. under the direction of Dudley Oakes. “New Organs” features
Submissions of article-length essays will be accepted from Juget-Sinclair’s Opus 51, built for Christ Church, Episcopal,
NEW ORGANS 20 September 1 through January 31, 2022, and the winning article Pelham, New York, a two-manual, 33-stop instrument. Q
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Correction announces summer organ recitals, Sun-
In “Ernest M. Skinner in Chicago: days at 3:30 p.m.: June 13, Brent Nolte;
The first contracts,” April 2021, pages July 18, James Brian Smith; August 8,
THE 14–20, the article by Stephen Schnurr Stephen Price. The cathedral houses a
D I A PA S O N erroneously states that Mary Baker Eddy four-manual, 70-rank organ built in 2010
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Chicago. Rather, a paper on Christian information: cathedralsjworkman.org.
Science by Mrs. Eddy was read at the
World Parliament of Religions during
the exposition by Judge Septimus J.
Hanna, editor of The Christian Science
Journal, on September 22, 1893. Mrs.
Eddy did visit Chicago in 1884 and 1888.
The author regrets the error.
Christ Church, Michigan City, Indiana,
First United Methodist Church
Lubbock, Texas
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³ page 3 area who would benefit from having available for viewing at www.trinitybythe-
recital series: June 4, Steven Ball; 6/12, the instrument in their home, thus cove.com; click on “Concerts.”
Kaskaskia College Choir, Lynda Mar- beginning the Spreckels Organ Society’s
shall, conductor; 6/19, Lynnli Wang; Organ Loaner Program.
6/26, Karel Keldermans; The instrument was matched with
July 3, Elijah Buerk, carillon, with 17-year-old Declan Bohley, a high
Caden Cole, tenor; 7/10, Wylie Craw- school senior from Escondido studying
ford; 7/17, Roy Kroezen. For informa- organ, piano, and music in general. He
tion: centraliacarillon.org. has been studying organ for six years
and piano for twelve, and the loaner
instrument in his home has inspired him Benjamin Teague
Competitions to explore the organ in ways he has not
The Guild of Carillonneurs in been able to before. Llandaff Cathedral with David Geoffrey
North America announces the results Bohley will begin college this fall, and Thomas and presently studies with Jer-
of its 2021 Franco Composition Com- while he is not planning on pursuing a emiah Stephenson in All Saints’ Church,
petition. With a record 58 submissions, degree in organ performance, he intends Margaret Street, London. Teague is the
the following prizes are awarded: Geert to apply what he has learned as an organ- dean of the Guild of St. Teilo, the director
D’hollander, Moto Perpertuo, first prize ist as he pursues his goal of composing of music for the Archive Ensemble, prin-
($1,500); Joseph Fong, Nine Vignettes contemporary music. cipal accompanist for Canton Chorus,
for Carillon, second prize ($750); Mary When Bohley is no longer using the principal accompanist for Côr Meibion
Beth Bennett, Valse Triste, perfor- instrument, it will be returned to the De Cymru (Caerdydd), and director of
mance award ($100); Jose Antonio C. society to be made available to another the Cardiff Mendelssohn Festival. The
Bruencamino, Hinugot sa Hangin, per- student. For information: new work will be premiered as part of the
formance award ($100); David Maker, spreckelsorgan.org. Mark Steinbach music series by Nicholas Schmelter,
Tocsin, performance award ($100); Tom the congregation’s director of worship
Gurin, At Rain-Starred Windows, per- Mark Steinbach has been promoted and congregational life.
formance award ($100); Michael Gancz, People to distinguished senior lecturer in Schmelter has been commissioned by
Four Preludes for Carillon, performance music at Brown University, Providence, Brian Cash to compose an organ work
award ($100); Elizaveta Panchenko, Fes- Rhode Island, where he also serves celebrating the 200th anniversary of St.
tive Chime, performance award ($100). as university organist and curator of Patrick Catholic Church, Fayetteville,
There were six members of the jury: instruments. His new album, Glass- North Carolina. Entrata has a flexible
Margaret Angelini, Wesley Arai, Joey Bach-Dresden, on Philip Glass’s label, form, designed to accompany a variety of
Brink, Dave Johnson, Alex Johnson, and Orange Mountain Music, was recently liturgical processions. The initial trumpet
Tiffany Ng. For information: gcna.org. released. For further information: tune theme (A1) inspires later refrains
Mark_Steinbach@brown.edu. (A2, A3, and A4), which may repeat as
needed. Other sections (B1, B2, and
Engaging the next C1) introduce secondary motives and
generation provide opportunities to highlight St.
Patrick Church’s four-manual Zimmer
organ’s tonal resources. For informa-
tion: benjateague.bandcamp.com and
schmeltermusic.com.
Concert management
Concert Artist Cooperative
John Fenstermaker announces the addition of new artists to
its roster.
John Fenstermaker accompanied the
1924 silent film “Sherlock, Jr.,” starring
Buster Keaton on April 18 at Trinity-by-
Declan Bohley the-Cove, Naples, Florida. His score was
compiled from works by Lefébure-Wély,
Recently the Spreckels Organ Boëllmann, Chopin, Eilenberg, Gautier, Harold Stover
Society received the donation of a Zamecnik, Lemare, Grieg, Andino,
Hammond organ, and the organization Langey, T. T. Noble, Minot, Johann Harold Stover announces new music
decided it would match the instrument Strauss, Vierne, Brahms, Savino, Stiehl, published by Universal Edition: Feria
with a young organist in the San Diego Clokey, and Nevin. The performance is (UES100331-420, €15.95) for organ;
Nocturnes, Book 3 (UES100291-000,
€15.95, full score) for trumpet, organ,
and percussion; Rag, Pastorale, and Car-
illon (UES100287-000, €18.95) for two
pianos; Celtic Invocations (UES100308-
000, €18.95) for mezzo-soprano and
piano; and Trio for Violin, Cello, and Theodore S. (Ted) Davis
Piano (UES100332-000, €15.95, full
score). For information: Theodore S. (Ted) Davis located to
universaledition.com. Baltimore, Maryland, in 2003 following
a nearly twenty-year career including
Proud builders
pipe organ kit
The Friends of Music Series of First positions in Richmond, Virginia, and
Presbyterian Church, Caro, Michigan, is Cambridge, Massachusetts. He holds
sponsoring a new multi-movement com- music degrees in organ performance
position for organ by Benjamin Teague. from Birmingham-Southern College
of the
Pedal Variations on “Home on the Range” (Bachelor of Music), choral conducting
is based on an American folk melody. from Northwestern University (Master
Based in Cardiff, Teague is a graduate of Music), harpsichord from the Longy
of the Royal Welsh College of Music and School of Music (Doctor of Arts), and
Drama, having studied composition with organ performance from the Peabody
Michael McCartney and the late Peter Conservatory (Doctor of Musical Arts).
follow Reynolds. Teague’s recent works include Davis is an active organ and harp-
us on preludes for organ, preludes for piano, sichord recitalist as well as a chamber
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soloist he has performed around the Appointments
mid-Atlantic region, New England, and Thomas Gaynor is appointed asso-
the Southeast regions. He has achieved ciate director of music and organist at
recognition in organ-playing competi- St. John Vianney Catholic Church,
tions and is an active composer with Houston, Texas. He leaves his posi-
works printed by two publishers. Other tion as associate director of music at
musical interests have led to studies in Christ Episcopal Church, Pittsford,
a cappella vocal music with the Western New York, where he has served since
Wind of New York as well as studies in 2014. In his new role he will direct
vocal and instrumental music with the the Vesper Choir, co-direct the two
medieval and renaissance consort Sirinu chorister programs, and share organ-
of England and Baroque ensembles The ist duties for eight weekend Masses
Parley of Instruments, also of England, and numerous weekly liturgies.
and Tafelmusik of Toronto, Canada. A native of Wellington, New Zea-
He has served as assistant to the music Joy-Leilani Garbutt land, Gaynor earned his undergradu-
directors in Baroque opera productions ate degree from the New Zealand
at the Boston Early Music Festival and She holds a Master of Education School of Music while holding organ
the Amherst Early Music Festival. degree from Harvard Graduate School scholarships at Wellington Anglican
Davis has been organist and choir- of Education and a Master of Music in Cathedral of St. Paul and St. Mary of Thomas Gaynor
master at St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal organ performance from Northwestern the Angels Catholic Church. In 2012
Church in Baltimore since 2005. As part University, where she served as organ he moved to Rochester, New York, to study with David Higgs at the Eastman
of the music series Davis has established, scholar at Alice Millar Chapel. In addi- School of Music. He recently graduated with a Doctor of Musical Arts degree
he conducts the church choir in choral tion to solo recitals in the United States and Eastman’s highest honor, the Artist’s Certificate.
evensong services, presents an annual and France, Joy-Leilani has performed In 2017 Gaynor was presented with the Gold Medal and Audience Prize at
“Bach at St. Bartholomew’s” series with the New England Youth Ensemble the St. Albans International Organ Competition. This followed first prizes at
(music of J. S. Bach for organ and harp- in England, South Africa, New Zealand, the Bach-Liszt Internationaler Orgelwettbewerb Erfurt/Weimar, the Sydney
sichord), and conducts choral concerts. Australia, and Mexico. International Organ Competition, and the Fort Wayne National Organ Playing
In the latter, the church choir is joined Competition. He also holds second prizes from the Tokyo-Musashino Interna-
by additional singers from the commu- Margaret “Meg” Harper is a young tional Organ Competition, the Miami International Organ Competition, and
nity and an orchestra, performing works organist about whom the Croatian news- the Arthur Poister Scholarship Competition. He has concertized across North
that have recently included Brahms’s paper Glas Slavonije writes, “The freez- America, Europe, Oceania, and in Japan and Colombia. In 2018, Gaynor pre-
Ein Deutsches Requiem, Haydn’s There- ing cold of a January evening dominated sented the North American premiere of Jean-Baptiste Robin’s organ concerto,
sienmesse, Handel’s Messiah, cantatas the cathedral in Djakovo, but it could Fantaisie Mécanique. He is a member of The Diapason’s 20 Under 30 Class
and St. John Passion of J. S. Bach, and not diminish the richness and warmth of of 2016. For information: thomasgaynor.com.
Purcell Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day (with sound brought out of the cathedral organ
period instruments). by Margaret Harper.” She has performed Hillary Guttman is appointed
across the United States, Europe, and associate acoustician for Scott R.
Joy-Leilani Garbutt is director of Asia, including solo recitals at such Riedel & Associates, Ltd., Milwau-
music at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, venues as Harvard University, Cathedral kee, Wisconsin. Guttman is a 2002
San Francisco, California. She is a of St. John the Divine, New York City, graduate of the Peabody Conserva-
recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship and and St. Paul Cathedral, Pittsburgh, and tory of Johns Hopkins University,
spent 2018–2019 in France where she at national conferences of the Organ Baltimore, Maryland, where she
pursued research on early twentieth- Historical Society and the Association of received her master’s degree in
century French organ music by female Anglican Musicians. acoustics and audio. She assists lead
composers, particularly Joséphine In addition to her schedule of concert- acoustician Craig Schaefer with data
Boulay, Mel Bonis, Nadia Boulanger, izing, Harper serves as associate director compilation, analysis, and report
Lili Boulanger, and Jeanne Demes- of music and organist at St. Michael writing. She has experience perform-
sieux. She is a doctoral degree candidate and All Angels Episcopal Church, Dal- ing on-site acoustical testing, as well
in musicology and has most recently las, Texas. At St. Michael, Margaret has as acoustical calculations and com-
studied with Jeremy Filsell and Sophie- helped to build the chorister program puter aided modeling.
Veronique Cauchefer-Choplin. In and pioneered a series of music courses The Riedel portfolio includes the
spring 2018 Joy-Leilani co-founded the for adult parishioners. Before coming to acoustic design of over 1,000 sacred
Boulanger Initiative, a non-profit orga- the church, Harper served as director of worship spaces and organs, as well as
nization dedicated to promoting music music and liturgy at St. John’s Episcopal consultation on auditorium, music
composed by women through perfor- Church, Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Hillary Guttman rehearsal room, and studio acoustics.
mance, education, and commissions. ³ page 8 Non-religious related projects also
include sound quality and noise control design for residential, commercial,
and manufacturing facilities. For information: riedelassociates.com.
Todd Wilson is appointed as visit-
ing professor in the University of
Michigan organ department for the
2021–2022 academic year, joining
Joseph Gascho, James Kibbie (chair),
and Tiffany Ng. He continues as
director of music at Trinity Episcopal
Cathedral, Cleveland, Ohio, where
he is also head of the organ depart-
ment at the Cleveland Institute of
Music. Wilson holds degrees from
the College-Conservatory of Music
at the University of Cincinnati and
did further coaching with Russell
Saunders. An active member of the
American Guild of Organists, he
holds the Fellow and Choirmaster
certificates and has been a featured
Todd Wilson (photo credit: Sam Hubish) performer at five national conven-
tions of the Guild, most recently in
2018 when he performed the St. Cecilia Recital in Kansas City.
Wilson has played in major cities throughout the United States, Europe,
and Japan, and orchestral appearances include concerts with the Los Angeles
Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Atlanta Symphony, the Nashville
Symphony, the City of London Sinfonia, and others. He has served on the
juries of competitions, most recently as chair of the jury for the Longwood
Gardens International Organ Competition in 2019. Todd Wilson is repre-
sented by Karen McFarlane Artists, Inc. For information: concertorganists.
www.ruffatti.com com and smtd.umich.edu. Q
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Jacob Hofeling Christopher Jacobson
Higdon and Michael Bauer. He is cur- chapel’s organ scholars, and plays organ
rently pursuing a Master of Music degree for over 150 services each year. Jason Klein-Mendoza
in music theory at Kansas. Recently, As a soloist, Jacobson has presented
Hofeling returned from study abroad in organ recitals across North America, Hills, California. He was the featured
Margaret “Meg” Harper Bremen, Germany, at the Hochschule für Europe, and Australia. His recordings organist on the All Saints’ Choir’s most
Künste under Professor Edoardo Bellotti. appear on the Dutch record label Pen- recent recording, For All The Saints:
In her time at St. John’s, she oversaw a Hofeling holds a position as director tatone Classics both as an organ soloist Anthems, Hymns and Motets, released
dramatic expansion of all aspects of the of music at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, and accompanist. He has won prizes in on the Gothic label.
church’s music program. Kansas City, Missouri, and was recently numerous organ competitions, including Klein-Mendoza has performed
Harper is the founding co-director interim professor of organ at Washburn the National Young Artist Competition throughout the United States and Can-
of the RSCM-America’s Dallas Boys University, Topeka, Kansas. As a solo of the American Guild of Organists, the ada, notably at Orchestra Hall in Chicago
Course, which will launch in summer recitalist, he has performed concerts in Miami International Organ Competi- and Segerstrom Hall in Costa Mesa,
2022. In addition, she has also served as Tampa, Florida; Wichita, Lawrence, and tion, and the John R. Rodland Competi- California. Additionally, he has played
artist faculty in organ at the University Topeka, Kansas; Kansas City, Missouri; tion in sacred music. In addition to main- at Canterbury, Salisbury, St. Paul’s, and
of Southern Maine, on the faculty and and Worpswede, Germany. Additionally, taining an active recital schedule, he has Wells cathedrals in the UK. From a fam-
board of directors of the Young Organist he performs frequently at the Commu- presented performances of the complete ily of educators, he is committed to the
Collaborative, and as a secondary instruc- nity of Christ Temple in Independence, organ works of J. S. Bach across the development of young musicians and
tor of organ at Eastman School of Music. Missouri, where he is staff organist. The United States. has served as a faculty member for two
She has presented papers at national and Kansas City Metropolis wrote that Hofe- An ensemble performer, Jacobson is in Pipe Organ Encounters of the American
regional conferences of organizations ling’s playing “had a wonderful variety demand as an accompanist and continuo Guild of Organists.
including the American Bach Society and of registers and colors and displayed a player. He is a 2017 Grammy-nominated He studied organ, church music, and
the American Guild of Organists. secure sense of control.” As a continuo organist for his work with conductor conducting at Concordia University,
Harper holds a Doctor of Musical player he performed with the Kansas City Brian A. Schmidt and the South Dakota River Forest, Illinois, at Northwestern
Arts degree and a performer’s cer- Symphony in December 2018. Hofeling Chorale in the world premiere recording University, and at Thornton School of
tificate from Eastman School of Music. was a semifinalist in the Mikhael Tariver- of Marcel Tyberg’s two Masses. His work Music of University of Southern Cali-
Her primary teachers include William diev International Organ Competition as an accompanist has seen him appear fornia. His organ teachers include David
Porter, David Higgs, Michel Bouvard, in Kaliningrad, Russia, and was awarded regularly with choirs and orchestras in Christiansen, Margaret McElwain Kem-
Edoardo Bellotti, and Edward Zimmer- second prize in the Fort Wayne, Indiana, the United States, United Kingdom, per, David Craighead, and Ladd Thomas,
man. She is active in the Association of national organ playing competition. His France, and Germany. Before moving and his earliest organ teacher was Fred
Anglican Musicians and currently serves performances have been heard on radio to North Carolina, Jacobson was associ- Becker of Crystal Lake, Illinois. In addi-
as co-chair for that organization’s 2023 at KBAQ in Phoenix, Arizona, and KPR ate organist and choirmaster at Trinity tion to the standard organ repertoire, he
national conference. in Kansas. Episcopal Cathedral, Columbia, South has a keen interest in forgotten gems for
Carolina, and assistant organist and the organ and is an avid supporter of new
Originally from Arizona, Jacob Hofel- Duke University chapel organist and assistant director of music at Washington music for the instrument.
ing has a Bachelor of Music degree in organist at Duke Divinity School, Chris- National Cathedral. For bookings and information:
organ performance from Arizona State topher Jacobson, FRCO, is active as Jacobson earned a Master of Music concertartistcooperative.com.
University, where he studied under a concert organist, conductor, accom- degree in organ performance and a
Kimberly Marshall. Hofeling earned his panist, guest clinician, and teacher. At sacred music diploma at Eastman School
Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Duke Chapel he founded and directs of Music. He graduated with a Bachelor Recordings
Arts degrees in organ from University of the Duke Evensong Singers in services of Music degree with highest distinc- Signum Classics announces a new
Kansas where he studied under James and concerts, oversees the training of the tion in organ performance from St. Olaf CD: The Music of Gerre Hancock
College. His teachers and mentors have (SIGCD631), featuring the St. Thomas
included David Higgs and William Por- Choir of Men and Boys. The perfor-
ter at Eastman, and John Ferguson at St. mances on the new recording are led
Olaf. Jacobson is a graduate of Wood- by Jeremy Filsell, the present organist
berry Forest School and the American and director of music, with accompani-
Boychoir School where he was a treble ment from Benjamin Sheen (associate
chorister under James Litton. organist), Nicholas Quardokus (assis-
2020-2022 Projects tant organist), and the St. Thomas Brass
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Carillon Profile
Trinity College,
Hartford, Connecticut
Trinity College of Hartford, Con-
necticut, will host the joint 20th
World Carillon Federation Congress
and 78th Guild of Carillonneurs in
North America Congress in June
2021. All proceedings will take place
virtually and are scheduled through-
out the entire month. The theme
of the congress is “Broadening our
Repertoire: Carillon Music for Every-
one,” and will feature premieres of Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut
several dozen new pieces, including Duruflé: Complete Organ Works
diverse compositions and arrange-
ments. Trinity College has commis- The Music of Gerre Hancock For information: kingscollegerecordings.
sioned six new works for the congress com and concertorganists.com.
by composers Geert D’hollander, Judge Eternal, Psalm 8, Ora Labora,
Ellen Dickinson, Liesbeth Janssens, Variations on Ora Labora, and Deep
Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra, Naoko Tsu- River. For information: Publishers
jita, and Brandee Younger. signumrecords.com. MorningStar Music Publishers
Trinity College boasts a Taylor announces a new organ publication:
carillon in their centrally located 10 Transcriptions & Arrangements for
Trinity College Chapel. The English Organ, Volume 2 (10-187, $22 for print
neo-Gothic chapel was consecrated copy of PDF download), by J. Michael
in the Episcopalian tradition in June Trinity College Chapel Case, containing selections arranged
1932, although the tower was not from works by Bach, Franck, Widor,
completed until December of the Gerald Near, Case, and others. For
same year. The original carillon was information: morningstarmusic.com.
cast in 1932 with thirty bells, of which
22 remain. It was expanded with 27
bells by Taylor in 1978, creating a Organbuilders
standard four-octave instrument of
49 bells, absent two bass semitones.
The carillon’s pitch begins on B,
and it transposes up one semitone.
The Plumb Memorial Carillon was
donated by alumni John F. Plumb and The carillon clavier Celebrating Notre Dame
his wife in memory of their son, John
Plumb, who died while a student at Trinity College. The Gothic Catalog announces a
Trinity College is reprising its role as an assembly place for North American new recording: Celebrating Notre Dame
carillonneurs. In 1934, Trinity College President Remsen B. Ogilby invited a (LRCD-1168-DA, digital album $12.98,
small group of North American carillonneurs to a gathering at the institution. individual tracks available for download),
The president, it so happened, was also the carillonneur at Trinity College. This featuring Kimberly Marshall, organist,
meeting was the first of its kind on the continent and served as the model for with Schola Gothia, Ulrike Heider,
the subsequent congresses of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America. directing. The album is a musical cele-
Trinity College also claims early roots in carillon concert series. The recital bration of Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris,
series, held for five to six Wednesdays in July through August, has been an France, and Marian music.
annual tradition since 1949. The series is also one of the best attended carillon Recorded on the North German
series on the continent. Baroque organ of Örgryte Nya Kyrka,
The current college carillonneur is Ellen Dickinson, who performs at major Gothenburg, Sweden, the largest mean-
college occasions and chapel services. She is also the director of the Trinity Col- tone organ in the world, based on Arp Christ Chapel, Hillsdale College, Hills-
lege Summer Music Series, which includes the carillon series, and she teaches Schnitger’s design and philosophy, the dale, Michigan, Paul Fritts & Company
carillon performance to Trinity undergraduates. Q disc features works by Arnolt Schlick, Opus 44 (photo credit: Emily Davis)
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Community Bell Advocates, LLC Maria Zart, and Magnificat. For infor- Michigan, dedicated its Mary Waterman
www.communitybelladvocates.com mation: gothic-catalog.com. Memorial Organ in Christ Chapel with a
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King’s College, Cambridge, UK, program included works by Bach, Viv-
College website: trincoll.edu announces release of a new CD: Duru- aldi, Mozart, and others. Christ Chapel
flé: Complete Organ Works, featuring is modeled after London’s St. Martin-in-
All photos credit: Trinity College Thomas Trotter performing works the-Fields and has won several architec-
of Maurice Duruflé on the college tural awards.
chapel’s recently restored Harrison & The chancel organ was designed
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for Music; his connection with the col- stops. The company is also building the
lege commenced in 1976, when he was chapel’s three-manual, 57-stop gallery
named the college’s fourteenth organ organ, which will be installed in 2022.
scholar. He is represented in the United For information: hillsdale.edu and
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Book Reviews Van Pelt are similarly regarded for their selected entries to read more thoroughly,
photographic skills. one cannot help but be amazed at how a
In his foreword to the book, James L. nineteenth-century manufacturer could
Wallmann writes, “Henry Erben belongs install instruments in thirty-five states,
on the list of great nineteenth century the District of Columbia, as well as sev-
organ builders. His place is not with eral foreign countries.
the ‘second tier’ builders of national sig- Appendices include facsimiles of
nificance . . . , but next to Cavaillé-Coll, newspaper clippings, lists, and catalogs,
Walcker, and Willis, all of whom were followed by a compendium of fine black
figures of international status and influ- and white photographs, vintage and
ence.” Pinel’s book defines the otherwise contemporary, of many instruments. The
little known importance of Henry Erben. photographs by Levasseur and Van Pelt
Pinel provides a lineage of the Erben prove that black and white pictures can
family beginning with Henry’s grandfa- still be just as beautiful as those in color.
ther, Johann Adam Erben, a native of Erben and his workmen were ingenious
what is now Germany who emigrated to in providing a wide variety of case styles,
the United States. “An Erben Annuary” all with harmonious proportions and
provides key dates important to Erben’s decorations. As the owner of a small
life and work, through even to the pres- Jardine organ from the mid-1850s, also
ent time. Chapter 1, “Erben’s Work- made in New York City, this reviewer
Erben organ, Grace Episcopal Church, Lists and Trade Catalogs in Historical was very impressed with the variety of
The Work-List of Henry Erben: Organ Sheldon, Vermont (photo credit: Len Perspective,” demonstrates how these architectural styles of cases, all of which
Levasseur)
Builder in Nineteenth-Century New York publications assist today with document- demonstrated the builder was very tal-
ing the builder’s work and even his life ented in almost any style imaginable.
The Work-List of Henry Erben: Organ William T. Van Pelt.” Only a publication and business practices. As expected with any compendium
Builder in Nineteenth-Century New with the dedication of this much effort The book continues by tracing every as this, the documentation provided
York, by Stephen L. Pinel, with pho- and thoroughness would be worth more known client with a connection to the is thorough and plenteous. The orga-
tography by Len Levasseur and Wil- than a generation’s wait. If there is a Erben firm, by state, beginning with New nizational skills needed to track down
liam T. Van Pelt. OHS Monographs book purchase to be made in 2021, this York. When Erben built a new organ for all these sources of information, keep
in American Organ History No. 16, is the one. Fear not the hefty price, for a church, one will find it here by location. track of them, and order them into a
OHS Press, The Organ Historical it is well worth the investment. (Each If an organ was rebuilt or resold when book for the reader are exceptional and
Society, Villanova, Pennsylvania, copy is signed and numbered.) And, one taken in trade, it is traced. Each entry is as praiseworthy. The index at the end of the
2021, 624 + xlviii pages, 295 black may wish to procure a copy soon, as it is complete as possible, many with quotes volume eases the reader’s need to find
and white illustrations, plus one reported that more than half of the 350 from newspapers at the time of installa- specific references.
color on each of front and back cov- copies have already been claimed. tion or dedication, some entries featur- Measuring 8¾ inches by 11½ inches
ers, $150. Available from ohscatalog. Stephen L. Pinel is perhaps best known ing stoplists. If the fate of the organ is and nearly 2 inches thick (!), this hard-
org and ravencd.com. to the organ world for more than quarter known when replaced, it is provided. For bound book is rather heavy and, thank-
The publisher notes about the book, century’s work as archivist to the Organ completeness, pipe organs later owned fully, sturdily bound with high-quality
“The culmination of 35 years of research, Historical Society. He is also known as an by a congregation are noted, even if the paper. This publication is printed to last
this hardbound, limited edition book of organist and church musician, recitalist, fate of the Erben organ is not known. for years.
more than 600 pages tracks Erben’s recording artist, and scholar whose books The amount of information is stagger- The bar upon which books about
work with copious annotations, docu- and articles are widely respected around ing, to say the least; one must marvel at organbuilders are compared has now
mentation, and stoplists, accompanied the globe, including his essays for this the level of data compiled. For readers been raised several notches. As a collector
with photography by Len Levasseur and journal. Len Levasseur and William T. who simply flip through pages, picking at ³ page 25
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The life of π thickness for milling lumber for organ
If you have maintained bird feeders, cases. We bought 4/4 (one-inch thick)
you know what squirrels can do. They rough-sawn wood from a lumber yard.
are powerful, lithe acrobats, and they Planing it flat and then to thickness, we
can outsmart almost any attempt to deter could reliably get twenty millimeters
them. I recognize several individual male from it. I had twenty-millimeter wood
gray squirrels in our yard that are strong in my hands so much that I could tell if
and agile enough to leap three or four a stick was nineteen or twenty-one mil-
feet from the ground on to the cone- limeters. Likewise, we set the “key-dip”
shaped baffles. They shinny up the steel on a keyboard, the distance of travel for
poles, over the tops of the feeders, hang the natural keys. It is usually something
upside down, and gorge themselves. like ten or twelve millimeters. If you have
Some days I think it is okay to feed spent three or four days leveling key-
the squirrels as well as the birds, letting boards and adjusting key-dip, you can tell
them take turns, but one day last week as a millimeter difference in a heartbeat.
I watched them dominate, it occurred to ∏ is special. It is approximately 3.14,
me that I could make a new baffle of dif- more accurately 3.14159265359 . . . .
ferent design, a two- or three-foot disc of There is apparently no limit to the num-
plywood with flashing around the edge. ber of digits—as of now, it has been cal-
If they jumped on it, it would surely flip culated to 31.4 trillion digits and count-
and dump them off. I took a quick mea- ing. I have no concept of how those digits
surement and set off to the lumber yard are calculated, so I accept 3.14. That is a
for a sheet of half-inch exterior plywood lot fussier than sixteen-inch studs, and
and some flashing. How much flashing? it is a great example of a concept that is
It comes in ten-, twenty-, and thirty-foot all around us that we do not necessarily
rolls. I told the kid behind the sales think about. When I was a kid on school
desk (he’s younger than my kids) that I field trips, I was interested in an exhibit
planned either a twenty-four- or thirty- at the Museum of Science in Boston
inch circle. Let’s see. Twenty-four inches that showed a perfect sphere and a
is two feet. Two times π is about six-and- perfect cone on a scale. Each shape had
a-quarter feet. Thirty inches times π is a the same radius, and radius and height
little less than eight feet. Easy. Ten feet were equal. They balanced. My old-guy
will do it. memory of my young-guy thinking had
The kid asked, “What’s π?” I told him me wondering, “Who figured that out?”
it is a number discovered by a Greek You can prove it by using π to calculate
mathematician named Archimedes who the volume of each shape.
lived around 250 B.C. that defines all The simple circle equations, a = πr2
the properties of a circle. ∏ = roughly and c = πd, are pretty familiar. I will take
3.14. Multiply π by the diameter of a it a step further. The volume of a cylin-
circle and you get the circumference der is πr2 (the area of the circle) times
(c = πd), or multiply π by the radius the height (v = πr2h). The volume of a
squared to calculate the area of the cone is v = πr2h/3. The volume of a cone
circle (a = πr2). I added that Archimedes is one-third the volume of a cylinder of
came up with other really useful ideas the same dimensions. The volume of a
like the continuous inclined plane (the sphere is v = 4/3πr3. I suppose you can
thread of a screw), and the properties of guess I was pleased with myself for the
levers. “So a carpenter can use math,” he little math lesson I gave the kid in the
observed. I told him he could also use π lumber yard. But what do bird feeders
to figure out the difference between a have to do with pipe organs? Glatter-Götz Orgelbau/Rosales Organ Builders organ, Walt Disney Concert Hall
twelve- and sixteen-inch pizza. 3.14 x 12 The organ pipe maker is the π-man.
= 37.68 square inches. 3.14 x 16 = 50.24 People who make organ pipes live and smaller than a chiclet. That’s a fussy little the shore of the Bodensee, visiting my
square inches. (I used the calculator in breathe π. To make an organ pipe, you piece of metal to cut, much different friend and colleague Stefan Stürzer,
my iPhone.) Adding four inches to the cut out three pieces of metal, a pie-shape from the carpenters’ sixteen-inch cen- director of the respected organbuilding
diameter makes the pizza a lot bigger. If (no relation to π) for the foot, a rectangle ters. The pipe maker forms that chiclet firm Glatter-Götz in nearby Pfullendorf,
a bite of pizza is two square inches, the for the resonator, and a little circle for into a cylinder around a steel mandril, perhaps best known in the United States
bigger pie has twenty-five more bites. the languid (the horizontal piece at the then solders the seams. Careful not to as builders, with Manuel Rosales, of
I took the ten-foot roll of flashing, joint between the foot and the resona- burn your fingers. the iconic “Disney Organ.” I sat one
drove into Building 3 to pick up the ply- tor). The width of the rectangle and the The pipe maker cuts sixty-one pieces afternoon with Heinz Kremnitzer, the
wood, and went home to cut my circle. length of the curved top of the cone both of pie (toes), sixty-one rectangles (reso- designer and engineer for the company,
I decided on thirty inches and tied a equal the circumference of the pipe. The nators), and sixty-one circles (languids), who told me about the process of design-
Sharpie and an awl to a piece of string circumference of the languid equals the one of each for every note on the key- ing and making the huge, curved pipes
fifteen inches apart to make a rough width of the rectangle. board. Each is a different size. While the that have given the organ the sobriquet,
compass. I marked and cut the circle, I wish that every organist could wit- length of the pipes halve at every octave, “A Large Order of Fries.” Frank Gehry,
used little screws to attach the flashing to ness the making of organ pipes, the soul the diameters of the pipes halve every architect of Walt Disney Concert Hall
the sombrero-like gizmo, and mounted it of our instrument. The metal is blended seventeen notes or so. It is that halv- and creator of the organ’s visual design,
on the pole under the bird feeder. It took in a melting pot (just the right amount ing that keeps scales (diameters) of the called for the curves.
the squirrels less than two days to get to of lead, tin, eye of newt, and toe of frog) treble pipes large enough to speak, and The first question was whether such an
the feeder. and cast into sheets on a long table. A it is that halving at seventeen that forms organ pipe would speak, so Glatter-Götz
few seconds after the sheet is cast, there the beautiful parabola of the tops of the built low DDDD of the 32′ Violon as a
Simple Simon met a π-man . . . is a magic moment when the liquid metal pipes as they sit on a windchest. When prototype. The curves were marked on
Carpenters work automatically with becomes solid. You can see it happen. all those pieces are laid out in order on the huge boards that would be the sides
increments of sixteen inches, the stan- The metal is planed to exact thickness, a table, they show the image of a rank of the pipes and cut using a hand-held
dard distance between studs, joists, and and some organbuilders hammer softer of pipes. As I can tell the difference circular saw. Big deal. We all have “Skil-
rafters. To make things easy, most metal metals (those with higher lead content) between eighteen and twenty millime- saws” in our shops. But remember, that
tape measures have clear markings every to make the metal denser. ters in my fingers, so the pipe maker can pipe was almost twenty-eight feet long,
sixteen inches. A good carpenter knows Thick and strong metal sheets are cast pick up one of those rectangles and know the length of an average living room. To
sixteen inches perfectly. A baker makes for larger pipes. Low C of an 8′ Diapason what the diameter of the pipe will be. assemble the pipe, the flat board that
a twenty- or thirty-pound batch of bread is typically about ten feet long, includ- I wonder how Archimedes came would be the back of the pipe was placed
dough and cuts it into one-pound pieces. ing the foot and sometimes some extra across π. What induced him to think so on sawhorses spaced far enough apart
Maybe he checks each one with a scale, length for tuning. (The speaking length intently about a circle? Did the formula that the board sagged to approximate the
but he develops a knack for the heft of a of any organ pipe is measured from the appear to him in a dream? Did he use correct curve. Glue was applied, the pipe
pound. Our butcher does the same. I ask lower lip of the mouth to the tuning trial and error? How did he check him- assembled, and as anyone who has heard
for a pound of ground beef, he grabs at point.) The highest note of that Diapa- self? Did he draw a grid on a circle and the Disney organ knows, the pipe spoke.
the bowl, and puts 15.77 ounces on the son is a couple inches long from mouth count the squares? Stefan told me that they borrowed doz-
scale. “You’ve done this before.” Expe- to tuner, but take a look at some little ens of extra clamps from neighboring
rienced organ tuners develop a similar mixture pipes, or the top octave of 11⁄3′ or Radical radii organ companies to accomplish that
knack for the length of a pipe relative to 13⁄5′ ranks. The speaking length is a half I spent a couple weeks in Germany in complex job.
the pitch. You hear the pitch and reach inch or quarter inch and the diameter is September of 2019. I wrote about organs Each curve is a segment of a circle
for the pipe of the correct length. a quarter inch or less. I will play with π I visited on that trip in the December 2019 with a huge radius. Twenty-seven pipes
I worked in an organ shop that used a little to estimate that the rectangle of issue of The Diapason, pages 14–15. I of the 32′ Violon and ten pipes of the 32′
twenty millimeters as the standard metal is 78/100 by 25/100 (1⁄4) of an inch, spent about a week in Überlingen, on Basson are curved. Four different radii
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were used: 51.545 meters, 32.102 meters, On Tuesday, April 13, 2021, The the clock. An amazing 1,296 pieces of that adding or subtracting the weight of a
20.586 meters, and 13.027 meters. How New York Times published a story by mouth-blown pot opal glass have been penny (3.56 grams) changes the speed of
much is 51.454 meters in feet? 169.11 Susanne Fowler under the headline, made, and the fourteen- and nine-foot the five-ton clock by two-fifths of a sec-
feet. Double the radius to picture a “What Does It Take to Hear Big Ben hands of the clock are being restored to ond over twenty-four hours. The clock
338.22-foot circle. That is more than the Again? 500 Workers and a Hiding their original condition. is wound each Monday, Wednesday,
length of a football field, including both Place.” The hiding place is the secret Mr. Westworth explained how they and Friday. The clock mechanics keep
end zones. The length of the segments and secure location of the workshop regulate the speed of the clock to keep careful track of the time of striking and
of those circles would be the speaking where the clock is being restored. accurate time. When the clock is opera- adjust the speed at each winding by add-
length of each pipe. With today’s sophis- Many of the 500 workers are involved tional, its speed varies by plus or minus ing or subtracting a penny or two. That
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