Recently added articles from The Tracker:
Wanted: Perfect Organ Historians
Jul 01, 2008; Wallmann, James ... A perfect organ historian would have the skills of a musician, a craftsman, a palaeographer and an archaeologist, as well as having general interest in antiquarian, ecclesiological and architectural study. THIS STATEMENT BY THE LATE HISTORIAN-ORGANBUILDER STEPHEN BICKNELL is found in the ...
The Organs of First Church: Salem, Massachusetts
Jul 01, 2008; Bozeman, George ... HISTORY OF THE CHURCH THE FIRST CHURCH OF SALEM IS THE SECOND OLDEST PROTEStant Church in continuous operation in North America, preceded only by the Collegiate Dutch Reformed Church of New York City, and was gathered by Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629. It was the first ...
The Teschemacher Organ at Kauffman Museum: Bethel College North Newton, Kansas
Jul 01, 2008; Noack, Fritz ... HISTORY KAUFFMAN MUSEUM AT BETHEL COLLEGE IN NORTH NEWTON, Kansas, is the home of an important historic organ, a six-stop chamber organ built in 1750 (or perhaps a few years earlier) by Jacob Engelbert Teschemacher. This respected organbuilder had his workshop in Elberfeld-Mirke, which ...
Mechanical-Action Organs on the Move
Jul 01, 2008; Cook, James ... IN THE HALF-CENTURY OF ITS EXISTENCE, THE ORGAN Historical Society has moved from an emphasis on American-built tracker organs to a broader concept of the historical organ. Outstanding examples of the organbuilder's art from all periods and in various styles are now routinely recognized through ...
New at the OHS's American Organ Archives: Two Volumes of Newly Discovered German Tablatures
Jul 01, 2008; Butler, Lynn Edwards ... Tabulatur Lüdingworth. Norddeutsche Orgelmusik des 16. Jahrhunderts. Facsimile with introduction and critical edition by Konrad Küster. Documenta Musicologica II/38 (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2007). Weimarer Orgeltabulatur. Die frühesten Notenhandschriften Johann Sebastian Bachs sowie ...
Symposium on the Estey Pipe Organ
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... THE ESTEY FOUNDATION, INC., AND THE OHS WILL HOST THE Symposium on the Estey Pipe Organ on September 20 in Brattleboro, Vermont. The one-day event will feature a tour of extant Estey organs in Brattleboro, a keynote presentation by Jonathan Ambrosino ("The Estey Legacy: Haskell and Beyond"), ...
Pipes and Angels
Jul 01, 2008; Crowell, Gregory ... Pipes and Angels. Timothy Edward Smith, Organist: 1912 Casavant organ, St. Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Church, New Bedford, Massachusetts. Raven OAR-920. Available at www.ohscatalog.org. Those who heard Timothy Edward Smith's truly elegant transcription of Saint-Saens's Carnival of ...
The Excellent Art of the Voluntary: From Croft to Camidge
Jul 01, 2008; Crowell, Gregory ... The Excellent Art of the Voluntary: From Croft to Cartridge. John Wellingham Plays the New William Drake Organ in St. Paul's Church, Deptford. Plenum Records PLE 2002. Available at www.ohscatalog.org. The liner notes accompanying this compact disc note that the surviving case work and ...
minutes: ORGAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Minutes of the National Council Meeting Wednesday, October 10, 2007 Hyatt Regency Hotel, Rochester, New York These minutes follow the order of the agenda and do not necessarily follow the order in which they were discussed. Call to Order: The meeting of the ...