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1 Pipeline THE A NEWSLETTER FROM Kathleen H. Adams, Editor Volume 17, Number 1 Spring 2006 Notations This has been an especially busy time at the shop, with several projects moving ahead concurrently. Work on Opus 129, a three-manual, 45-stop instrument is well underway, with pipework, windchests and many case parts completed. The Great and Pedal chest assembly and the Swell box presently dominate the workshop and soon all will be assembled in the erecting room. The organ, destined for the stunning multi-use Performing Arts Center at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, is scheduled to be shipped in June. Taking up every inch of remaining space in the shop are the case and front pipes for Opus 130. They will be shipped to Costa Mesa, California, in April for installation in the new Orange County Performing Arts Center, designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli, Architects, and Artec, Acoustical Consultants. The rest of the organ will be shipped in the summer of By installing the façade ahead of the organ, the more sensitive organ parts will be spared the dust from work on the hall itself and we will have the advantage of an acoustical analysis of the room which will precede the voicing of the pipework. Both the hall and the organ are designed to have a silvery luster, achieved by aluminum leafing. For almost ten days in February members of the renowned Gilders Studio worked in our shop, applying 2,600 sq. ft. of aluminum leaf to the casework and to the eight huge wooden pipes of the 32' Montre. It was fascinating to watch the gilders at their craft and to see the matte undercoat transformed into a glowing reflective surface. Our Opus 132, a two-manual, 30-stop instrument for Kobe International University (Yashirogakuin), was delivered in January. The chapel there is located on a large man-made island in Kobe harbor. With the help of Dola Kawachi, our colleague from the Yokohama installation (Opus 110), all went smoothly, affording time for our crew to explore Kyoto, Himeji, and other historic sites. Each workday ended with another exploration, sampling the wonderful cuisine that helped to keep everyone fit and in fine spirits during their tours of duty. Voicing commenced in February with the arrival of David and Morgan Pike. Now Nami Hamada, back in her native country, leads the voicing, aided by Open Shop for C.B. Fisk Op.129 San Luis Obispo Performing Arts Center May p.m. Rick Isaacs. Stephen Kowalyshyn, Steve Malionek, and Mika Oba (also a native of Japan) follow, to complete the tonal finishing. When Steve Dieck visited in February, two stops were already in such fine tune that he was able to demonstrate the instrument to the great delight of university dignitaries. Two other instruments have recently been completed, bringing to nine the number of Fisk organs in North Carolina. Opus 126 at St. Paul s Episcopal Church in Greenville, North Carolina, was dedicated in November with concerts by Janette Fishell and Colin Andrews, and there has been a full concert schedule ever since. Opus 131, built in collaboration with our former employee, John Schreiner, of Schreiner Pipe Organs, Ltd., at St. Paul s Episcopal Church Chapel in Winston-Salem was dedicated in a Service of Evening Prayer in February. Opus 127 at St. John s Episcopal Church in Tallahassee, Florida, is virtually complete and we look forward to its dedication in May. We had a visit from our good friend Calvin Didier in February. He was at the helm of House of Hope Presbyterian Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, at the time we built Opus 78 (the largest instrument we had built to date). He took great personal interest in the organ project, following its progress daily and endearing himself to everyone at C. B. Fisk. Cal was in Gloucester to deliver the keynote address for the 200th Anniversary of the first Universalist Church in America, where our Opus 36 resides. We have received the very sad news that Janice Waddell died in Florida on March 1. She had worked here at the shop and in the office for a number of years, always willing to help out wherever she was most needed and taking great interest in all of the employees and their families. She was the wife of Dave Waddell, one of the shop s original employees and our longtime foreman, and we always looked forward to spring when the two of them would drive up from Florida for an extended stay on Cape Ann. Dave would return to his bench in the woodshop and the two of them would catch up with family and friends here. We will miss Janice.

2 N EW R ELEASES OF F ISK O RGANS ON C OMPACT D ISC Claudia Dumschat In the Old World and the New OPUS 92 The Church of the Transfiguration The Little Church Around the Corner New York City W.A. Mozart: Fantasia in F minor Buxtehude: Prelude, Fugue and Ciacone Sweelinck: Echo Fantasia J.S. Bach: Prelude and Fugue in A minor Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten Wenn wir in höchsten Noten sein Ned Rorem: Fanfare and Fugue from Organbook III Joan Tower: Ascent Marcel Dupré: Variations on a Noel Charles Ives: Variations on America Pro Organo CD 7198 Robert Parris Land of Rest OPUS 115 Christ Episcopal Church Macon, Georgia Buxtehude: Praeludium in C Gott der Vater, wohn uns bei Jesus Christus, unser Heiland J.S. Bach: Sonata VI in G Wir glauben all an einen Gott, Vater Toccata and Fugue in d minor, Dorian Franck: Fantasie in A Sowerby: Prelude on Land of Rest Dupré: Variations on a Noel Op. 20 Loft LRCD 1080 Jean-Christophe Geiser Le Récital Inaugural OPUS 120 La Cathédrale de Lausanne Lausanne, Switzerland Bruhns: Prélude en mi mineur J.S. Bach: Prélude et fugue en mi mineur, Richard Wagner: Prélude de Tristan und Isolde (transcription, Gottschalg) Guy Ropartz: Prélude funèbre Brahms: Prélude et fugue en sol mineur Maruice Duruflé: Prélude et fugue sur le nom d Alain, Op. 7 Gallo CD 1143 Read Greg Bover s Japan Journal Hear sounds from An Open Door and more sounds from Opus 124, Roanoke, VA (Tom Baugh) online at Christa Rakich The Leipzig Chorales OPUS 55 Old West Church, Boston, Massachusetts J.S. Bach: Fantasia super Komm, Heiliger Geist Trio super Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele Nun danket alle Gott Von Gott will ich nicht lassen Komm, Gott, Schöpfer, Heiliger Geist Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland Trio super Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland Fritts Opus 18, Pacific Lutheran Univ., Tacoma Komm, Heiliger Geist Jesus Christus, unser Heiland Allein Gott in der Höh sei Her Trio super Allein Gott in der Höh sei Her An Wasserflüssen Babylon O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig Vor deinen Thron tret ich Loft 1078/79 An Open Door The Choir School, Robert Nicholls, Director John Schwandt, Organist OPUS 98 First Presbyterian Church Evansville, Indiana Jack Burnam: God Has Gone Up with a Shout Robert Nicholls: How Did My Heart Rejoice St. Denio: Immortal, Invisible Burnam: An Open door An Endless Alleluia As the Deer Longs for the Waterbrooks Down Ampney: Come Down, O Love Divine Nicholls: And I Saw a New Heaven Rise Up, My Love James and John Burnam: I Am the Bread of Life William Boyce: All the Ends of the World Stuttgart: O My Soul, Bless Your Redeemer Samuel Sebastian Wesley: Lead Me, Lord L.J. White: A Prayer of St. Richard of Chichester J.S. Bach: O Mensch bewein Nicholls: Peace at the Last Richard Proulx: Fanfare for Organ robertn@firstpresevansville.com

3 C. B. FISK OPUS 126 GREENVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA photo: Steve Dieck ST. PAUL S EPISCOPAL CHURCH

4 SPECIFICATION FOR OPUS Voices, 57 Ranks, 3,119 pipes GRAND ORGUE, 61 NOTES Manual I Montre 16' Montre 8' Salicional 8' Flûte conique 8' Flûte harmonique 8' Prestant 4' Flûte ouverte 4' Quinte 2 2/3' Doublette 2' Tierce 1 3/5' Plein jeu harmonique II-VI Plein jeu II-VI Bombarde 16' Trompette 8' Trommeten 8' Clairon 4' POSITIF EXPRESSIF, 61 NOTES Manual II enclosed Principal 8' Cor de Nuit 8' Prestant 4' Flûte douce 4' Nasard 2 2/3' Doublette 2' Tierce 1 3/5' Plein jeu IV Cromorne 8' Tuba Mirabilis 8' RÉCIT EXPRESSIF, 61 NOTES Manual III enclosed Bourdon 16' Viole de gambe 8' Voix céleste 8' Flûte traversière 8' Bourdon 8' Flûte octaviante 4' Octavin 2' Plein jeu IV-V Cornet III (G 0 - d 3 ) Basson 16' Trompette 8' Hautbois 8' Clairon 4' PÉDALE, 32 NOTES Bourdon 32' ext. of Sw. Contrebasse 16' Montre 16' from Gt. Bourdon 16' from Sw. Octave 8' Salicional 8' from Gt. Flûte conique 8' from Gt. Octave 4' Contre Bombarde 32' ext. of Gt. Bombarde 16' from Gt. Posaune 16' Trompette 8' from Gt. Trommeten 8' from Gt. Clairon 4' from Gt. COUPLERS: Positif expressif to Grand Orgue Récit expressif to Grand Orgue Récit expressif to Positif expressif Grand Orgue to Pédale Positif expressif to Pédale Récit expressif to Pédale Récit expressif to Pédale 4 Octaves graves ACCESSORIES: Tremulant Grand Orgue and Positif expressif Tremulant Récit expressif Vent flexible Clochettes Balanced Positif expressif and Récit expressif Pedals KEY ACTION: Direct mechanical (tracker), except for the largest pipes of the organ, which are pneumatically controlled. A Kowalyshyn Servopneumatic Lever provides a pneumatic assist to the couplers to the Grand Orgue key action. COMBINATION ACTION: Solid state action with sequencer and multiple levels of memory CASEWORK: Appalachian red oak Burnished tin front pipes fromvoid tovoix Celeste: a personal reflection on Opus 126 The journey that led to our beloved Opus 126 started and ended as a spiritual quest. As in all such pilgrimages, the devil of doubt is never far away. We were not sure that we could raise the funds, engage the necessary parties, or persuade our wider constituency. We fought those doubts by establishing a non-profit foundation that united church, university and community in the common aim of funding an organ that would be the cornerstone of our central mission: educating future organists and church musicians and inspiring congregants and audiences. This created a synergy that increased the number of grants and gifts we could attract and transformed the way people in our area think about arts funding. Impatient by nature, I had not wanted to wait until all these things were in place. But the decade spent on this project was too rich an experience to hurry. Using a theological metaphor, it began with Musical Advent, in which both building and organ were ideas on paper, and it led to Musical Incarnation, where a stunning sacred space embodies both the organ s sound and the building s silence. Accountants and attorneys, Bohemian professors and Ladies-Who-Lunch, retired folk, and university students all have embraced the organ because of the exquisite workmanship and artistry of C.B. Fisk and the vision and talent of our architects and acoustician. To have an organ of such vocal expressivity and sheer excitement in a room with superb acoustics can change lives by saying, "Look what is possible now go dream your own dream." Janette Fishell

5 CONCERTS AND RECITALS ON FISK ORGANS BOSTON, MA OPUS 44, KING S CHAPEL King's Chapel Music at Noon Series (Tuesdays at 12:15 pm) April 4 David Owens, organ; Deborah Charness, flute. Bach & Woodman April 11 Brunhilde Engelhardt, organ. Bach Sei gegrüßet May 9 Shaun Ramsay, euphonium; Heinrich Christensen, organ June 27 10th Annual Young Organists Initiative Showcase July 4 Leonardo Ciampa, organ August 8 Ben Hoadley, bassoon; Heinrich Christensen, organ August 15 Gail Archer, organ BOSTON, MA OPUS 55, OLD WEST CHURCH International Artist Series May 5, 8:00 pm Mamiko Iwasaki, Recital. Mendelssohn, Mizogami, and Bach May 6, 10:00 am Mamiko Iwasaki,Lecture, A Tale of Three Organs in Tokyo Old West Organ Society Summer Evening Recitals, 8:00 pm June 20th Carl Klein June 27th George Bozeman July 11th Louise Mundinger July 18th Leo Abbott July 25 Yuko Hayashi & Jon Gillock August 1 Boston Organ Academy Participants August 8 Barbara Bruns w/richard Given (trumpet), Phil Swanson (trombone) August 15 Libor Dudas BUFFALO, NY OPUS 95, UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO, SLEE HALL March 31, 8:00 pm Roland Martin, Recital. Couperin s Messe pour les Paroisses CHICAGO, IL OPUS 123, ST. CHRYSOSTOM S EPISCOPAL CHURCH March 29 and April 5, 7:00 pm David Schrader, Recital. Dupré s Les Chemins de la Croix May 21, 2:30 pm Thomas Wikman, Recital CLAREMONT, CA OPUS 117, POMONA COLLEGE April 9, 3:00 pm William Peterson, Recital. Music of the World War I Era: Vierne, Saint-Saëns, Quignard, Ibert, Ropartz, Defosse DALLAS, TX OPUS 101 SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY, CARUTH AUDITORIUM April 10, 7:00 pm Simon Menges, Artist Certificate Recital. Bach, Liszt, Duruflé April 22, 6:00 pm Shi-Ae Park, Artist Certificate Recital. Bach, Franck, Paulus, Ah-Young Kim September 11, 8:00 pm Larry Palmer, Organ & Harpsichord. L. Couperin, Bach, Howells, DeGrigny, F. Couperin, Bovet, Mozart, Martinu DAYTON, OH OPUS 94, ST. GEORGE S EPISCOPAL CHURCH June 4, 10:30 am Richard Benedum, Organist with Chorus. Credo from Mozart s Mass in C, K. 258 EVANSVILLE, IN OPUS 98, FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH University of Evansville Organ Series April 23 4:00 pm Vincent Dubois, Recital September 5, 7:00 pm Geoffrey Webber w/ Choir of Gonville and Caius College GAINESVILLE, FL OPUS 119, FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH May 21, 4:00 pm Heather Kirkconnell, Recital June 4, 4:00 pm Mark Coffey, Recital GLOUCESTER, MA OPUS 97, ST. JOHN S EPISCOPAL CHURCH April 2, 4:00 pm Mark Nelson and Mika Oba, Organists. Lenten Vespers. Duruflé Prélude from Suite Opus 5; Bach Aus tiefer Not GREENSBORO, NC OPUS 82 CHRIST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH April 21, 8:00 pm Charles Boyd Tompkins, Recital GREENVILLE, NC OPUS 126, ST. PAUL S EPISCOPAL CHURCH March 31, 7:30 pm Colin Andrews, Recital July 14, Janette Fishell, Recital. RSCM Event LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND OPUS 120 LA CATHÉDRALE DE LAUSANNE March 31, 8:00 pm Francesco Filidei & Humberto Salvagnin, Organists. Ligeti, Vaglini, Feldman, Kagel, Florentz, Xenakis April 7 & 14, 8:00 pm April 16, 5:00 pm Choeur Faller, Choeur Pro Arte, Sinfonietta de Lausanne, Pascal Mayer, Director. Frank Martin s Golgatha June 4, 5:00 pm Concert de Pentecôte. Jean-Christophe Geiser, organ, July 22, 8:00 pm Elizabeth Sombart, piano. J.S. Bach s Art of the Fugue Douglas Cleveland, Recital. Elgar, J.S. Bach, Sowerby, Mulet, Decker, and Jongen August 4, 11, 18, 25 at 8:00 pm and August 24 at 9:00 pm Andrzej Chorosinsky, Recitals. Bach, Surzynski, Sawa, Mussorgsky September 1, 8, 15, and 29 at 8:00 pm Emanuele Cardi, Recitals. Bossi and Widor October 6, 8:00 pm Chorale du Brassus, Jean-Francois Monot, Director. Jean-Christophe Geiser, Organ. Mendelssohn, Cornelius, and Rheinberger MACON, GA OPUS 115, CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH September 15, 7:30 pm Robert Parris, Recital MARBLEHEAD, MA OPUS 69, ST. MICHAEL S CHURCH May 14, 5:00 pm Mark Englehardt, Recital NEW YORK, NY OPUS 92, CHURCH OF THE TRANSFIGURATION A Little Midday Music (Tuesdays at 12:30 pm) April 18 Claudia Dumschat, Organ with Marie Dalby, Viol May 2 Daniel Sullivan, Organ May 9 Claudia Dumschat, Organ with Judith Davidoff, Viol June 13 Claudia Dumschat, Organ with Lucy Bardot, Viol May 5, 7:30 Music for Men s Voices, Claudia Dumschat, Director PITTSBURG, KS OPUS 106, PITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY March 31, 7:30 pm James David Christie, Masterclass and Recital PROVIDENCE, RI OPUS 74 ST. PETER S & ST. ANDREW S EPISCOPAL CHURCH October t.b.a. Adam Schneider, Recital RICHMOND, VA OPUS 112, ST. JAMES S EPISCOPAL CHURCH April 2, 5:00 pm Evensong with Women s Chorus, College of William & Mary June 4, 5:00 pm Canterbury Evensong. St. James s Choir June 12, 7:30 pm Choir of Girls & Men, Washington National Cathedral June 15, 5:00 pm Evensong June 21, 7:00 pm Etienne Walhain ROANOKE, VA OPUS 124, CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH Summer Festival of Organ Music (Tuesdays in July at 7:30 pm) July 11 Peggy Haas Howell July 18 Erica Johnson July 25 James Leland ST. PAUL, MN OPUS 78, HOUSE OF HOPE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Music at Four Series April 14, 7:30 pm Good Friday Vespers Service. Nancy Lancaster, organ (Merklin/Fisk) Fauré Requiem April 23, 4:00 pm John Butt, Recital. All-Bach program SEATTLE, WA OPUS 114, THE SEATTLE SYMPHONY WATJEN CONCERT ORGAN, BENAROYA HALL Fluke/Gabelein Organ Recital Series May 1, 7:30 pm Alan Morrison, Recital SOUDERTON, PA OPUS 51, ZION MENNONITE CHURCH April 2, 9:00 am Marian Archibald, Organist. Zion s Adult Choir & Soloists. Dubois Seven Last Words of Christ April 9, 4:00 pm Mark Cole, Organist with Woodcrest UCC Gospel Choir, Cheryl Brittingham, Director May 21, 7:00 pm Marian Archibald, Organist. Christopher Dock High School Touring Choir, Rodney Derstine, Director WESTERLY, RI OPUS 45 CHRIST CHURCH, WESTERLY March 31, 7:30 pm Kimberly Marshall, Recital. Newman, Bertoldo, Frescobaldi, Schlinck, Bruna, and Alain YOKOHAMA, JAPAN OPUS 110, MINATO MIRAI HALL Dollar Concerts at 12:10 pm April 26 Ai Yoshida May 24 Naoko Asao and Aya Tanaka June th Dollar Concert Anniversary Hatsumi Miura & Osamu Takahashi (Trumpet) July 26 Yuuichiro Shiina August 23 Miho Hasegawa September 27 Junko Ito Recital Series July 6, 7:00 pm Michael Kleinschmidt, Recital. J. S. Bach, Hampton, Mozart, Lefébure-Wely, Pärt, Dupré, Improvisation August 2 Workshops for Children and Adults August 5 Workshop for Children Opus 127 St. John s Episcopal Church Tallahassee, Florida Service of Dedication May 7, 10:00 am Inaugural Concert Michael Corzine, Organist May 7, 4:30 pm and May 8, 7:30 pm PIPEDREAMS Streaming on

6 PROFILE: JOSHUA GOLDBERG In 1999, our ad for a woodworker in Woodshop News caught the eye of Joshua Goldberg. He was unsure whether to apply as he had no particular experience in music, but he came in for an interview, anyway. One look at his resumé revealed a man who excelled at artisanry in wood, exhibiting in museums and galleries, appearing in national shows and publications that featured his studio furniture, architectural interior work, and objets d art. He had his own shop in East Boston at the time, but he missed the collegiality he had enjoyed as a student at the Swain School of Design and as a Studio Assistant to the renowned Mattia/Somerson Studio in Westport, Massachusetts. Roseanne Somerson, Professor in the Furniture Department at the Rhode Island School of Design, and Alphonse Mattia were mentors to Joshua, reinforcing and expanding his keen aesthetic and skill. When he graduated from Swain, he became Somerson s Primary Builder, managing projects and supervising the Studio Assistants for the next five years. The shop here looked good to Joshua. He admired its organization, the scale of it, the ease with which one could move from one task to another without re-arranging everything. It was luxurious, he says, a revelation for somebody who had worked in a one-person shop. Thus began his tenure (now seven years) with C. B. Fisk. When casework involves especially complex geometry or must reveal the deepest beauty of a piece of wood, it is often Joshua who is called upon to work the magic. Many an exacting piece of fine joinery has emerged from his bench. Word got around Cape Ann soon after he came on board, and he found Joshua Goldberg down to the lath himself making an ornate, panelled columbarium for St. Mary s Episcopal Church in Rockport. Opus 114 for the Seattle Symphony was under construction when Joshua first arrived, and he launched into the work at hand, then signed up for the installation, learning quickly how the instruments work. In 2003 he spent a month in Lausanne working on Opus 120, sharing in the adventure of installing an instrument cantilevered from the high gallery of the Cathedral. Joshua bought a 100-year-old house in Salem, full of challenges even for one who, at one time, had restored brownstones for a living. Changes to the house have the mark of an artist and of an imaginative person. A bathtub consigned to the backyard brought on another Goldberg variation: he turned the tub into a barbeque pit and invited us to a cookout, commanding the grill with ease, having worked as a line cook after high school. He s a fine skier, and often leaves for a couple of days this time of year to help harvest the maple syrup on a cousin s farm in Vermont. Windchest design brought Joshua into the drafting room recently to work at one of the CAD (computer aided design) stations. He moves smoothly between the computer and his bench in the woodshop, building case parts for Opus 129, the Performing Arts Center at San Luis Obispo in California. The organ s style resonates with the contemporary design that distinguished Joshua s earlier work. There s a jewelry box on his bench, too, something he s making for a cousin s birthday. He unrolls a drawing that shows how it is conceived. It s exquisite, unique, and maybe it will take a trip to a gallery before he gives it away. ~ Kathleen Adams, Editor 21 Kondelin Road PRSRT STD U.S.POSTAGE PAID GLOUCESTER, MA PERMIT NO. 40 Gloucester, Massachusetts