============================================================================= Volume 44 Number 10 May 2014 Whole No. 401 =============================================================================== PIPE ORGANS OF EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS Crawl prepared by Paul S. Roeder Saturday, May 31, 2014 10:00 a.m. Goucher College Chapel 1021 Dulaney Valley Road Towson, Maryland 21204 1964 Herman L. Schlicker 2 manual and pedal Directions: From Washington, D.C. Take MD-295 N/Baltimore Washington Parkway, about 25 miles from beginning. Merge onto I-695 W toward Towson (Baltimore Beltway), 20 miles. Keep left to take I-695 E toward Towson / New York, 2.3 miles. Merge onto Dulaney Valley Road / MD-146 via Exit 27A toward Towson, 0.4 miles. Make U turn at Locustvale Road onto Dulaney Valley Road / MD-146, 0.06 miles. School is on the right. You will have to search for the chapel. From West (Frederick) Take I-70 from Frederick, 35 miles. Merge onto I-695 N via Exit 91 B-A 12 miles. Keep left to take I-695 toward Towson / New York, 2.3 miles. Then follow directions as listed above (from Washington, D.C.). From South (Annapolis) Take I-97 N toward Baltimore, about 8 miles. Keep left to take I-97 toward MD-3N Baltimore, 10 miles. Merge onto I-695 W via Exit 17A toward Baltimore/Towson, 2.3 miles. Then follow directions as listed above (Washington, D.C.). From North (Bel Air) Follow US-1 Business South, about 3 miles. Turn left onto US - 1 / S Bel Air Road. Continue on Us -1 S, 11 miles. Take MD-43 / White March Blvd. ramp toward I-695 W., 0.3 miles. Turn slight right onto MD-43/ White Marsh Blvd, 1 mile. Stay straight to go onto I-695 W, 5 miles. Merge onto Dulaney Valley Road / MD -146S via Exit 27A toward Dulaney Valley Road/Towson, 0.5 miles. Make U turn at Locustvale Road onto Dulaney Valley Road / MD - 146, 0.06 miles. School is on the right. You will have to search for the chapel. CHAIRMAN: Paul S. Roeder, 15506 Page Court, Cumberland, MD 21502 (301) 268-6308 VICE CHAIRMAN: Glen R. Frank, 4715 31st Street, South, #B2, Arlington, VA 22206-1636 (571) 488-3060 SECRETARY-TREASURER: Carolyn Lamb Booth, 9200 LaBelle Lane, Gaithersburg, MD 20879 (301) 869-6271 EDITOR: Kevin M. Clemens, 711 Court Square Way, Edgewood, MD 21040 (410) 679-2271 EDITOR-ADVISOR: Carolyn Fix, 166 Battle Street, SW, Vienna, VA 22180 (703) 281-5046 Articles and news may be submitted to the Editor electronically: kevinclemens@mac.com Dues are due in October. $14.00 mailed to Secretary-Treasurer (Checks payable to: HILBUS CHAPTER, OHS)
11:00 p.m. ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING Goucher College Chapel 12:15 p.m. LUNCH Razorback Raw Bar and Grill 826 Dulaney Valley Road Towson, Maryland 21204 DIRECTIONS: Start out going North on Dulaney Valley Road / MD -146, 0.1 mile. Make a U turn onto Dulaney Valley Road / MD -146, 0.5m miles. You will arrive at the restaurant. 1:30 p.m. St. Paul s School 11152 Falls Road Brooklandville, Maryland 21022 2002 Schoenstein, Opus 142 2 manual and pedal - 20 ranks Directions: Go South on Dulaney Valley Road / MD-146 toward Olympic Place, 0.19 miles. Enter next roundabout and take first exit onto York Road/MD-45, 1 mile. Merge onto I-695 West toward Pikesville, 3 miles. Take I-83 South Exit 23 A/B toward MD-25/Falls Road/Baltimore, 0.23 miles. Take Exit 23B toward MD-25/Falls Road, 0.27 miles. Merge onto Jones Falls Expressway North, 0.27 miles. Stay straight to go onto MD-25/Falls Road, 1 mile. School is on the left. Watch for entrance to school it can be easily missed. You will have to search for the chapel once on campus. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Concerts Wednesday, May 21 @ 8:00 p.m. Ivcta Apkalna, organist, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C.
Slate of Officers for 2014-2015 Term Hilbus Chapter of the Organ Historical Society Chairman: Paul S. Roeder Vice-Chairman: Glen R. Frank Secretary-Treasurer: Carolyn Lamb Booth Radio Programs found on your computer If you find time during your busy day or evening and would like to relax to good organ and choral music, go to the following websites and listen to the following programs: With Harp and Voice presented from Rochester, NY by Peter Dubois. It is an hour program of organ and choral music featuring the liturgical year. Just type in With Heart and Voice. Pipe Dreams presented from Minneapolis, MN by Michael Barone. Your have a choice of listening to one hour or two hours of this program of organ music featuring outstanding pipe organs and organists from around the world. Just type in Pipe Dreams Minnesota Public Radio.
A HILBUS CHAPTER ORGAN CRAWL TO HISTORIC GETTYSBURG Review by Peter Crisafulli Members of the Hilbus Chapter visited two outstanding organs in Gettysburg, PA on Saturday, April 26. Once again, the indefatigable Paul Roeder developed the itinerary and made all necessary arrangements for what was to be a most interesting and pleasant day. We began with a visit to Christ Chapel at Gettysburg College, North Washington Street, Gettysburg, PA 17325. This large chapel is home to a 1953 Austin organ, Opus 2194. The pipe-work is situated in two chambers, one on either side at the front of the chapel. There are no visible pipes. According to the OHS database, the stop-key console was rebuilt in 2004. Of note is that Virgil Fox was involved in the design of this organ and played its inaugural concert. The acoustics are excellent and the organ sounds fabulous. Certainly one can find larger organs, but this instrument of 50 ranks across 3 manuals & pedal seems capable of playing any kind of repertoire with ease and boasts a dynamic range from a mere whisper to a commanding (but not overbearing) fortissimo. Each division features a complete principal chorus. Even the Pedal boasts a Mixture. We appreciated the way in which the various mixtures complemented the foundations without harshness or stridency. As well, there is an attractive complement of flute voices. The Great 8' Harmonic Flute was especially delightful for solo use with its treble ascendency. And then there are the wonderful strings and soft hybrid stops, warm and appealing. The reed stops are distinctive and quite fine. The Swell Trompette and Clarion have sufficient "fire" for tonal excitement, but with refinement and polish that enable them to be versatile. Even the 8' Bombarde on the Choir can serve as a crown to full organ without obliterating the ensemble, yet it has sufficient presence for soloing out big reed lines. Two color reeds, the Swell 16' & 8' Corno di Bassetto, and the Choir 8' English Horn are particularly lovely. The Corno di Bassetto is a true multum-in-parvo stop, serving as an effective double for the Swell reed chorus as well as a gorgeous solo stop, and providing useful secondary reed voices in the Pedal. I would be remiss if I did not comment on the abundance of 16' flue tone in the Pedal. Beside the expected basic foundations of open and stopped ranks, we have the added luxury of 16' stops duplexed from the manuals, especially the Great 16' Violone and the Choir 16' Erzahler. This last is somewhat of a rarity these days and boasts a clear and distinct pianissimo voice all the way down to low C. Finally, I don't usually comment on things like couplers as these tend to be fairly routine, but there's one on this organ that definitely merits attention: the Choir to Great 2 2/3' coupler. Yes, you read that correctly! Here then is the stop-list in the order that the stoptabs appear at the console from left to right. Although notes were jotted down during the crawl, I referred to the OHS database especially for referencing the number of pipes in each stop.
GREAT (unenclosed) 16' Violone (61 pipes) 8' Diapason (61) 8' Diapason Conique (61) 8' Harmonic Flute (61) 4' Nachthorn (61) 4' Octave (61) 2 2/3' Octave Quint (61) 2' Super Octave (61) III Fourniture (183) II Mixture (122) (3 blank stop tabs) MIDI Chimes Great to Great 16', 4', Unison Off Swell to Great 16', 8', 4' Choir to Great 16', 8', 4', 2 2/3' SWELL (enclosed) 16' Rohr Bourdon (12) 8' Geigen (73) 8' Rohr Flute (73) 8' Salicional (73) 8' Voix Celeste (61) 8' Flauto Dolce (73) 8' Dolce Celeste (61) 4' Flute (73) 4' Principal (73) 2' Fifteenth (61) III Plein Jeu (183) 16' Corno di Bassetto (73) 8' Trompette (73) 8' Corno di Bassetto (12) 4' Clarion (73) 8' Vox Humana (61) Tremolo (2 blank tabs) MIDI Swell to Swell 16', 4', Unison Off Choir to Swell 16', 8', 4'
CHOIR (enclosed) 16' Erzahler (73) 8' Viole (73) 8' Viole Celeste (73) 8' Bourdon (73) 8' Erzahler (73) 8' Erzahler Celeste (61) 4' Koppel Flute (73) 4' Octave (73) 2 2/3' Nazard (61) 2' Koppel Flute (12) 1 3/5' Tierce (61) III Zimbel (183) 8' English Horn (73) 8' Bombarde (73) Tremolo (2 blank tabs) MIDI Chimes Swell to Choir 16', 8', 4' Choir to Choir 16', 4', Unison Off PEDAL (unenclosed) 32' Resultant Bass 16' Contra Bass (32) 16' Bourdon (32) 16' Violone (GT) 16' Rohr Bourdon (SW) 16' Erzahler (CH) 8' Rohr Flute (SW) 8' Violone (GT) 8' Octave (32) 4' Choral Bass (12) III Mixture (96) 16' Corno di Bassetto (SW) 8' Corno di Bassetto (SW) 16' Bombarde (32) 8' Bombarde (12) 4' Bombarde (12) (1 blank tab) MIDI Chimes Great to Pedal 8', 4' Swell to Pedal 8, 4' Choir to Pedal 8', 4'
For lunch, Paul arranged for us to visit The Inn at Herr Ridge, a short drive from the college. This historic place was built in 1815 by Thomas Sweeney to capitalize on the route that led west (now US-30). It's a charming place to visit, and best of all, the food and the service were outstanding. If you find yourself in the Gettysburg area, you just might want to check this out! Following lunch, we visited Church of the Abiding Presence at the Lutheran Theological Seminary, 66 Seminary Ridge, Gettysburg, PA 17325, home to Andover's Opus 84 built in 1980 and Opus 110 built in 1996. Although smaller than the college chapel, the acoustics in the Georgian-style seminary church are excellent. The case for the main organ (Opus 84) is based on the work of American organ builder David Tannenberg and is of painted poplar to match the building, according to the Andover website. The key and stop action are mechanical throughout. Not only is this organ attractive to the eye of the beholder, but to the ear as well. And, it is a joy to play with its very responsive and comfortable key-action. This writer thoroughly enjoyed taking a musical romp playing works of Buxtehude and Bach. The instrument proved capable of a wide range of repertoire and accompanying roles. The Great division is placed in the center of the case with the Swell behind and the Pedal divided at either side. A particularly arresting feature, both visually and tonally, is the Chamade located just below the Great (and just above the organist's head!). Featuring copper resonators and playing from the top (3rd) manual, there is a half-hitch draw-knob controlling it: pull the knob half-way and it plays at unison (8') pitch; pull out fully and it doubles at 16' (to Tenor C). This last is especially exciting when playing a hymn-introduction to the likes of Ein feste Burg! The Great features a warm 8' Principal, a robust plenum which can be nicely topped off with the 8' Trumpet, and gorgeous flutes. The 16' Bourdon (independent from the Pedal stop of the same name) provides gravitas that Bach would have certainly approved of. The Swell is lighter in contrast to the Great; delightfully so. Here we find color stops in the mutations and reeds, as well as a clear-toned mezzo-piano Gemshorn, especially useful in accompanying roles. The Pedal is grand indeed, especially with its 32' Grand Bourdon. Again, I'm sure Bach would be pleased. In 1996 the Seminary contracted Andover to build a small 4-stop portable Positiv, Opus 110, for continuo use and choir trips. According to the Andover website, this instrument has a manual compass of 54 notes and the keyboard can be shifted one note for early music performance at A-415. The case is Colonial Georgian set on casters and has doors on the front which can be closed to protect the façade pipes when the instrument is moved about. It has its own self-contained blower. This is a charming instrument in its own right, but it can also be played from Opus 84. The Andover website describes how this came about: "Rev. Stephen Folkemer, Music Director at the Seminary, liked the looks of the instrument so much that he requested it be installed in a Rückpositiv position near the larger organ. The two organs were connected by an 'Orgamat' system from Laukhuff in Germany, in order to play the small organ from the main console if desired. The Orgamat, designed for use in tuning, sits on the keyboard of the small organ. It is activated by Opto-electronic contacts on the Chamade keyboard."
Opus 84 Great (bottom manual) 16' Bourdon 8' Principal 8' Rohrflöte 4' Octave 4' Koppelflöte 2' Fifteenth IV-V Mixture 8' Trumpet Swell (middle manual) 8' Gedeckt 8' Gemshorn 4' Spitzflöte 2 2/3' Nazard 2' Principal 1 3/5' Tierce III Scharff 16' Dulzian 8' Hautbois Chamade (top manual) 16' Festive Trumpet (TC) 8' Festive Trumpet Pedal 32' Grand Bourdon 16' Principal 16' Bourdon 8' Octave 8' Gedeckt 4' Chorale II Rauschpfeife 16' Posaune 4' Klarine 5 Unison Couplers Positiv on Chamade Tremolo Zimbelstern
Rückpositiv - Opus 110 8' Gedeckt 4' Chimney Flute 2' Principal 1 1/3' Quinte Once again, Hilbus Chapter owes Paul Roeder a huge debt of gratitude for planning yet another totally enjoyable day of organ sight-seeing, hearing and playing. Thank you, Paul! Many thanks to Gordon Biscomb for taking the superb photographs.