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Discography
1260, rue Tellier Laval, Quebec H7C 2H2 CANADA
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Two years have passed since the completion of our last instrument, a concert hall organ of forty stops at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. On April 24, 2003, the opening recital was vibrantly played to an audience of 1500 people by DePauw’s organ professor Carla Edwards.
After many months of planning and building this large instrument, the lower part of the main organ and the steel structure have been installed during Summer and Fall of 2004. Most of the Unterwerk has been voiced and the sound coming from the belly of the organ is amazingly powerful, thanks to the almost perfect acoustics of the huge cathedral. We are very much encouraged and our expectations are great!
Early on this year, the upper part of the organ has been shipped, however, thanks to an avalanche which blocked our truck on the Trans-Canada Highway in the Rockies, it arrived one week late. However, our installation crew installed the main organ in the four following weeks and the voicing is now to follow. Back in the shop, we are completing the Rückpositiv. It is like building a small organ, a welcome break after building nothing but gigantic stuff. The Positive will be installed in May 2005 and will fill the gap in the gallery railing.
Victoria being near the infamous San Andreas folds, our organ had to be made earthquake proof, making its design very complicated. However, our experts taught us enough about seismic bracing to keep the organ from - heaven forbid - falling onto the parishioners. The stoplist can be seen here and pictures of the organ’s installation can be seen on the cathedral’s website: here.
The organ will most likely be inaugurated by John Scott on October 12, 2005. Another happy announcement is the forthcoming Westfield Center conference on South German organ music featuring this organ.
The Future Concert Hall Organ for the University of North Texas
In providing an appropriate reverberation time and volume (by raising or lowering the canopy), the hall can be adjusted to the sound levels produced by the different musical formations, such as the symphony orchestra, jazz groups with their powerful big bands, (whose sound can be contained by enfolding the curtains), choral groups, chamber music and, for sure, the organ.
In addition to the Concert Hall, the Murchison Performing Arts Center houses a Lyric Theatre under its outer shell. The latter is shaped, in typical Texan fashion, like an Armadillo. Feel free to make a virtual tour at the following site: here . The stoplist can been seen here.
There are several organs on the campus, such as a tracker organ built in 1962 by Otto Hofmann. Aside from a Rieger organ at Trinity Cathedral in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, UNT's Hofmann organ happens to be Hellmuth's very first job in America. A French-classic organ by Gene Bedient has recently been relocated to the Main Auditorium and was presented in a symposium last November. These instruments can be seen on the faculty’s web page: here
A new home for our opus 17 at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Durham, N.C., and for the England & Son organ at the Cathedral of The Holy Trinity in Quebec City.
John Bishop, the director of the Organ Clearing House, described the saga of the organ, formerly from Hanover, N.H in the bulletin of the OCH see: here. With the collaboration of Hal Gober, we have added a Posaune 16’ to the Pedal and changed the Douçaine 16’ of the G.O. to a Trumpet, all of which provides the much desired Gravität to this modest instrument.
St. Paul’s Church houses also a Positive made in 1977 by John Brombaugh. John built an admirable Italianate swallow’s nest organ twenty years later for the huge chapel of Duke University, only a few minutes away, neighbouring the monumental Flentrop organ, all of which can be seen: here.
Thanks to a generous donation to the Anglican Cathedral of Quebec, the relocation of our England & Son chamber organ of 1790 was made possible. To celebrate the Cathedral's 200th anniversary, a concert was given on June 5, 2004 by Quebec's Baroque orchestra Les Violons du Roy and organist Benjamin Waterhouse, playing an exquisite and rarely heard repertory of English muisc.
Recordings: New releases
Four new CDs made on our organs will be added to our list, (see: discography), among which, two with Hausorgel Opus 1 playing continuo. Thanks to the excellent singers and instrumentalist s participating, these discs are most enjoyable, even if our Opus 1 is playing a more humble role,
Another disc is by Kevin Komisar
In addition, a CD with Christmas music, recorded life by Tandy Reussner, is ready. Remember the doctoral recital at Bales Hall of the ’University of Kansas, which Ms. Reussner played brilliantly and is recorded on the CD Live at Bales, with, among others the Reubke Sonata. (for details of the organ see: here). This disc, as well as her CD Live at Bales can be ordered at : drtandy@sunflower.com
Douglas Kirk, a cornetto playing friend from Montréal advised us of a new CD, made with his participation. It is Praetorius’ Christmas Vespers recorded at Knox College Chapel by the Toronto Consort. Besides Kevin Komisaruk’s already mentioned Samuel Scheidt and Luc Beauséjour’s excellent Buxtehude, nothing could make us happier than a Praetorius recording with the Knox College organ.
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