The American Organist back issues from May 2007:
FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
May 01, 2007; ... Enrollments of Organ Majors 2005-2006 In May of each year we publish statistics about the enrollments of organ majors as compiled by Higher Education Arts Data Services, an organization that conducts detailed research analyses for the National Association of Schools of Music. The data ...
FROM THE PRESIDENT
May 01, 2007; ... It is that time of year again. Schedules are starting to become less hectic and most of us are looking forward to activity changes in the coming weeks and months. For some, it will be a chance to enjoy a vacation (simple or exotic), or a new learning opportunity, or having the needed time to get ...
FROM THE PRESIDENT
May 01, 2007; ... Col.lege noun (Middle English, from Anglo-French, which is from Latin collegium = I society). Most dictionaries give several meanings for this 14th-century English word: an institution of higher learning, or a constituent part of a larger such institution; a body of clergy; a group of electors; ...
NATIONAL REPORT - MAY 2007
May 01, 2007; ... ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE RCCO Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of the Royal Canadian College of Organists will take place during the Edmonton Organ Festival, Wednesday, August 1, at 4:00 p.m., at the Coast Plaza Hotel. COLLEGE MEMBERSHIP ...
FROM THE CHAPLAIN
May 01, 2007; ... Clergy-Musician Relations: 2 of 3 Last month's column introduced this important topic as one that matters not only to the two professionals involved but also to the faith community in which they serve and even to the larger world. Christian preacher and novelist Frederick Buechner has ...
LETTERS
May 01, 2007; ... Opinions expressed in this column are those of the correspondents, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the AGO, RCCO, APOBA, or the editors of this journal. Letters accepted by the editor may be published whole or in part. AGO CERTIFICATION Dr. Gehring's article on ...
AGO/RCCO CHAPTER/CENTRE NEWS
May 01, 2007; ... ALL REPORTS RECEIVED ARE PUBLISHED * Reports (not newsletters) from chapters and centres must be typed, double-spaced. They may be sent by e-mail, fax, or regular mail to Robert Price (rprice@agohq.org). * Include the name of the chapter or centre, the program place and date (not ...
AGO DISTINGUISHED COMPOSER AWARD
May 01, 2007; ... STEPHEN PAULUS STEPHEN PAULUS has been honored as the AGO's Distinguished Composer for 2007-2008. He is the 15th American composer to receive this award, which is presented biennially at the Guild's national conventions. One of the most widely heralded composers of his generation, Paulus ...
PIPINGS
May 01, 2007; ... Material may be submitted via regular mail or e-mail to Todd Sisley, tsisley@agohq.org. Photographs must be in clear focus. Only unmodified high-resolution TIFF or JPG files are acceptable for electronic submissions. Do not insert digital photos into documents (send as attachments). The deadline ...
OBITUARIES: Mary Ann Dodd
May 01, 2007; ... Mary Ann Dodd, January 1, 2007, in Cooperstown, N.Y. Born and raised in Pullman, Wash., she earned a bachelor of music degree from the University of Arkansas in 1956, and a master of music degree from the University of Tennessee in 1971. She was university organist emerita at Colgate University ...
OBITUARIES: Kenneth W. Matthews
May 01, 2007; ... Kenneth W. Mathews, 54 years old, January 19, 2007, in San Francisco, Calif., after battling cancer. Born in Atlanta, Ga., Mr. Matthews' first music lessons were with his father, who played the Hammond organ and the piano in a well-known Atlanta restaurant and cocktail lounge weeknights, and in ...
OBITUARIES: Paul S. Robinson
May 01, 2007; ... Paul S. Robinson, 99 years old, February 15, 2007, in Winston-Salem, N.C. He was born March 8, 1907, to George and Minta Robinson in New Wilmington, Pa., and graduated from Westminster College in 1929. That year he began studying music at the Curtis Institute of Music. In 1932, he traveled to ...
OBITUARIES: Alec Wyton
May 01, 2007; ... Alec Wyton, 85 years old, March 18, 2007, at Danbury Hospital in Danbury, Conn. He had been a resident of Ridgefield, Conn., for the past 20 years. Mr. Wyton was an organist, choirmaster, composer, and teacher whose career included two decades as organist and choirmaster at the Cathedral of St ....
OBITUARIES: Martin H. Wittig
May 01, 2007; ... Martin H. Wittig, 66 years old, January 18, 2007, at his home in North Little Rock, Ark. Mr. Wittig was born on August 12, 1940, in Waymart, Pa. He was a Vietnam War veteran who served with the Air Force in Okinawa, Japan. His many business ventures included ownership of a gas station and three ...
CHRIST CHURCH BRADENTON, FLORIDA ORGUES LÉTOURNEAU LTÉE
May 01, 2007; ... From the Rector At Christ Church in Bradenton, Florida, we follow the Great Commission as our primary calling. This is where Jesus Christ after his Resurrection instructs his followers: "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the ...
SCOTTISH RITE CATHEDRAL, INDIANAPOLIS
May 01, 2007; ... The 52nd Annual National Convention of the Organ Historical Society will be held this summer in the Indianapolis/Central Indiana region from July 11 through 17. During this six-day and one-evening conference, 30 pipe organs of all types, built between 1850 and 1999 and ranging in size from one ...
Announcing the AGO 2008: ORGAN SPECTACULAR Organ and C Instrument Composition Competition
May 01, 2007; ... IN 2006 President Frederick Swann asked Vice President Margaret Evans to put a task force together to work on promoting the organ. This task force began its work in the fall of 2006, developing ideas to further get the word out about the greatness of the organ. We met to discuss how we might get ...
COMMENTARY
May 01, 2007; ... VOX HUMANA Boomers on the Bench Some would argue that aging has little to recommend it and that languishing into "second childishness and mere oblivion, sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything" just isn't a good pastime even in the most luxurious of assisted living ....
BACH TO BUXTEHUDE PROGRAM RCCO BRANTFORD CENTRE, JANUARY 21, 2007
May 01, 2007; ... On Sunday, January 21, 2007, members of the RCCO Brantford Centre met at Alexandra Presbyterian Church in Brantford, Ont., to hear a program based on the organ music of Dieterich Buxtehude and Johann Sebastian Bach. Host organist Roger Bayley played the 1958 III/30 Casavant organ. The complete ...
YOUTH AND SCHOLARSHIP AT METHUEN MEMORIAL MUSIC HALL
May 01, 2007; ... One of the many goals of Methuen Memorial Music Hall in Methuen, Massachusetts, is to educate and encourage today's youth to participate in music. The original 1946 bylaws in the charter of MMMH Inc. state that the Music Hall should act as a youth center for the surrounding communities. This is ...
SINGING BEFORE HEARING
May 01, 2007; ... This sermon was given at the Guild Service of the Fort Worth AGO Chapter on January 22, 2007, at University Christian Church. The talk by Emmet G. Smith was delivered during the dinner preceding the service. I thank you for the invitation to speak tonight. It is truly a pleasure to be ...
FAVORITE MARCHES, PART II: The Joy of Music and Diane Bish
May 01, 2007; ... VHS CASSETTE FAVORITE MARCHES, PART II: The Joy of Music and Diane Bish. Various organs (see below). Videocassette (available from www.joymusic@indiana.edu). Diane Bish is well known for several things: fantastic technique, choice of outfits for performance, and her cycle of narrated ...
THE JOY OF MUSIC: A Visit to Carcassonne, France
May 01, 2007; ... THE JOY OF MUSIC: A Visit to Carcassonne, France. Diane Bish, organist; various instruments and venues. Videocassette 2016 (available from www.joymusic@indiana. edu). This episode confines itself to the small medieval city of Carcassonne, and two major instruments there. One is a Cavaillé-Coll ...
THE COLORS OF RUFFATTI
May 01, 2007; ... DVD THE COLORS OF RUFFATTI: Diane Bish plays the V/96 Ruffatti organ (2004) at First Presbyterian Church, Naples, Fla. DVD3010 (available from www.joymusic@indiana. edu). Concert or commercial-or both? Diane Bish presides over Karg-Elert, Arne, Haydn, Bach, Bédard, Elgar, Widor, and her ...
DIN RIKSSAK: Norsk orgelmusikk gjennom 100 år 1905-2005
May 01, 2007; ... RECORDINGS DIN RIKSSAK: Norsk orgelmusikk gjennom 100 år 1905-2005. Stig Wernø Holter, organist. III/44 organ of the Johanneskirken (Christian Scheffler, 1999), and the III/61 organ of the Domkirche (Rieger, 1997), Bergen, Norway. Raise your hand if you have ever heard of these ...
POLISH ROMANTIC ORGAN MUSIC
May 01, 2007; ... POLISH ROMANTIC ORGAN MUSIC: Marek Kudlicki plays Gorski, Surzynski, Nowowwiejsk, and Borowski. The Weigle organ of the Stadtkirche, Nagold, Germany. PNCD 967 (available from nagrania@ polskienagrania.com.pl). Now comes an all-European, all-Polish collection; doubtless the names will be ...
A CONCISE HISTORY OF WESTERN MUSIC
May 01, 2007; ... BOOKS A CONCISE HISTORY OF WESTERN MUSIC, Paul Griffiths. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 348 pp. ISBN 0-521-84294-8. $35. Some histories are concise because of their incompleteness. Then there are examples of deeply thought-out concepts put forth with such economy of gesture ...
ORPHEI ORGANI ANTIQUI
May 01, 2007; ... ORPHEI ORGANI ANTIQUI: Essays in Honor of Harald Vogel, Cleveland Johnson, ed. Orcas, Wash.: The Westfield Center, 2006. 400 pp. ISBN 0-9778400-0-X. $74.95. Cleveland Johnson has amassed a festschrift honoring the 65th birthday of Harald Vogel, the scholar, performer, and founder of the North ...
ORGELS VAN DE WEDEROPBOUW: HET ORGEL VAN DE NICOLAÏKERK IN UTRECHT EN ANDERE ORGELS VAN NA 1945
May 01, 2007; ... ORGELS VAN DE WEDEROPBOUW: HET ORGEL VAN DE NICOLAÏKERK IN UTRECHT EN ANDERE ORGELS VAN NA 1945, ed. Hans Fidom. Zutphen: Walburg Pers, 2006. Nederlandse orgelmonografieën, 8. 320 pp., ill. ISBN 90-5730-432-5. euro34.95. The "wederopbouw" in the title of this book refers to the post-World War II ...
MODEST MOUSSORGSKY
May 01, 2007; ... ORGAN MUSIC MODEST MOUSSORGSKY Tableaux d'une Exposition, transcription pour orgue de Jean Guillou (1988). Schott 9807. Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition is one of those quintessential transcription pieces, owing largely to its inherently neutral instrumental character-though ...
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
May 01, 2007; ... JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Das Musikalische Opfer, transcription pour orgue de Jean Guillou (1974). Schott 9804 (formerly Leduc). Bach's Musical Offering has had a reputation for inapproachability for over 250 years. It is at once both transparent and yet obscure-not only with respect to the music ...
RECITALS
May 01, 2007; ... AMES ANDERSON, 6/20/06, Chapel of Our Lady of Good Counsel, Mankato, Minn. Bach, Preiude and Fugue in C, BWV 546. Mozart, Adagio in C, K. 356. Near, Suite for Organ: Chaconne; Sarabande {Land of Rest); Final. Dupré, Two Gregorian Preludes: Before the Ending of the Day (Compline); Forgive, O ...
IN MEMORIAM MARY ANN DODD, 1931-2007
May 01, 2007; ... On New Year's Day, we lost a treasure. On that day, Mary Ann Dodd died quietly and unexpectedly in her adopted New York State. Mary Ann Dodd, university organist emerita of Colgate University, was born Mary Ann Howell on September 6, 1931, in Pullman, Washington. A precocious talent, she studied ...
PIPE ORGANS OF THE RICH AND FAMOUS
May 01, 2007; ... QUEEN VICTORIA AND PRINCE ALBERT Queen Victoria's consort, Prince Albert of Saxe-Gotha, was an accomplished musician. He wrote 37 songs as well as pieces for the organ, piano, and violin; he arranged the first Handel Festival at the new Crystal Palace at which 2,500 singers ana ...