A Tale of Two Organs Fielding, Thomas
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01/2023, Letnik:
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Rev. Joseph Maria Koudelka, Auxiliary Bishop of Cleveland.3 Professor Francis "Frank" Joseph Boerger (1868-1949), a music teacher and organist of St. Augustine Catholic Church in Minster, Ohio, ...played the dedication recital, which included organ music and transcriptions by Bach, Rubinstein, Mendelssohn, Gounod, and Dudley Buck. On April 6, 1910, the foundation pledged $1,650 to the project. Because the parish failed to report the payment of its share to the Carnegie Foundation, the organbuilding company did not receive its remuneration until August 15, 1910. SWELL (enclosed) 16 Bourdon 8 Horn Diapason 8 Stopped Diapason 8 Salicional 8 Quintadena 8 Aeoline 4 Flute Harmonique Dolce Comet III 8 Oboe and Bassoon 8 Vox Humana PEDAL 16 Double Open Diapason 16 Violone 16 Lieblich Gedeckt (Sw.) 8 Open Diapason (ext. 16') 8 Violoncello (ext. 16') Great to Pedal 8, 4 Swell to Pedal 8, 4 Great 4 Swell to Great 16, 8, 4 Swell 16, Unison Oft', 4 The contract for the 1910 organ of St. John's also includes the following: ADJUSTABLE COMBINATION PISTONS Great and Pedal 1, 2, Release Swell and Pedal 1, 2, Release Balanced Swell Pedal Balanced Crescendo Pedal Sforzando Pedal Piano Reducing Pedal Great to Pedal Reversible ACCESSORIES Swell Tremolo Wind Indicator (not installed) Crescendo Indicator (not installed) Three Feeder Hand Power Pumper Gasoline Engine and Transmission Transmission Starter 1.
EDWIN ALAN OHL Ohl, Susan
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10/2022, Letnik:
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Born on August 1, 1940, Ohl was an accomplished mechanical/laser-optic engineer of military defense equipment, a ballistics expert, an award-winning artist, a skilled photographer, a fanatical ...steam-train enthusiast, a history aficionado, a builder of museumquality models, a crackerjack shot, an excellent cook, a world traveler, a devout Christian, a teacher, and a lifelong church and recital organist. After a four-rank tracker built for the home of his friend Jack Charles, Ohl installed a II/27-rank organ in Jerusalem Lutheran Church, Schwenksville. In his small shop in Blooming Glen, Pa., he built a two-manual tracker for Tabor Lutheran Church, Philadelphia, and a two-manual-and-pedal tracker for Zion Lutheran Church in Bristol, Pa.
The organist seated at the king of instruments with thousands of pipes rising all around him, his hands busy at the manuals and his feet patrolling the pedalboard, is a symbol of musical ...self-sufficiency yielding musical possibilities beyond that of any other mode of solo performance. In this book, David Yearsley presents a new interpretation of the significance of the oldest and richest of European instruments, by investigating the German origins of the uniquely independent use of the feet in organ playing. Delving into a range of musical, literary and visual sources, Bach's Feet demonstrates the cultural importance of this physically demanding mode of music-making, from the blind German organists of the fifteenth century, through the central contribution of Bach's music and legacy, to the newly-pedaling organists of the British Empire and the sinister visions of Nazi propagandists.
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The field of tissue engineering places complex demands on the natural and synthetic biomaterials that have been applied for organ/tissue development. The materials selected to support ...the complicated processes of tissue development and repairs which assist to the structural and mechanical requirements of the target tissue. Hydrogels have in situ formability which permits an actual and homogeneous encapsulation of drugs/cells, and useful in vivo surgical operation in a minimally invasive way, causing less discomfort for patients. This review provides an overview on the current chemically gelling techniques, with an explanation of the state of the art on the various synthesis methods and biomedical applications of chemically gelling hydrogels, contrasting and comparing the many chemistries available for biomedical hydrogel generation using both biologic and synthetic base materials. So, we discuss about the versatile methods to design the hydrogels including click chemistry, Michael-type addition reaction and Schiff base reaction.
A Bridge Built Tartella, Jim
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10/2023, Letnik:
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Toronto played host to the OHS 2023 convention, which included a number of firsts: notably the first time we joined with the Royal Canadian College of Organists (RCCO) in an event called "A Festival ...of Pipes: Building Bridges, Forging Friendships." Offerings such as virtual organs, volunteer choirs and rehearsal tips, orgelkids, sheet music, employment resources, Vatican II influ- ences within church music, the background of the Casavant Organ Company, the playing of Georg Muffat's works, and a unique look at a breakfast-cereal magnate's interest in midwestern pipe organs were on the agenda. There was ample opportunity during the week to escape to a museum, a fine restaurant, or the famous tower and waterfront area, or just to enjoy a coffee and the art and architecture throughout the downtown area.
Influenced by Robert and Clara Schumann and Joseph Joachim, Johannes Brahms not only learned to play the organ at the beginning of his career, but also wrote significant compositions for the ...instrument as a result of his early counterpoint study. He composed for the organ only sporadically or as part of larger choral and instrumental works in his subsequent career. During the final year of his life, however, he returned to pure organ composition with a set of chorale preludes—though many of these are thought to have been revisions of earlier works. Today, the organ works of Johannes Brahms are recognized as beautifully-crafted compositions by church and concert organists across the world and have become a much-cherished component of the repertoire. Until now, however, most scholarly accounts of Brahms's life and work treat his works for the organ as a minor footnote in his development as a composer. Precisely because the collection of organ works is not extensive, the pieces—composed at different times during Brahms's lifetime—help to map his path as a composer, pinpointing various stages in his artistic development. In this volume, the author offers the first in-depth study of this corpus, considering Brahms's organ works in relation to his background, methods, and overall artistic development, his contacts with organs and organists, the influence of his predecessors and contemporaries, and analyses of each specific work and its place in Brahms's career. Her expert history and analysis of Brahms's individual organ works and their interpretation also investigates contemporary practices relative to the performance of these pieces. The book's three valuable appendices present a guide to editions of Brahms's organ works, a discussion of the organ in Brahms's world that highlights some organs the composer would have heard, and a listing of the organ transcriptions of Brahms's work.
From the CEO McCall, Edward
The Tracker,
07/2022, Letnik:
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Here we are in the first weeks of warm weather and blue skies, looking forward to the OHS Annual Convention in Columbus, Ohio. A 21st-century relevant OHS expands the Biggs Scholars program into a ...tiered "OHS school," fostering a love for the pipe organ in young people and keeping them engaged as they mature into adulthood. An important activity for the OHS is education, using Orgelkids Kits with lesson planning based on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) to teach children about pipe organs.
