You know the three “R”s, don’t you? Reduce, Reuse and Recycle — well, now that I’m a free-lance organist, I am definitely doing my part. Since I am playing for different “congregations” throughout the week, I am using the same music over and over for different situations. In fact, I counted up five — count… Read More Recycled!
This morning, the cartoon below was posted on the American Guild of Organists FaceBook page: It seems that having quiet for the organ prelude is a universal and never-ending challenge! Even back in 1949, Donald Kettring in Church Week, wrote: Recently I attended a panel discussion on church music in which a brilliant and accomplished… Read More The organ prelude (continued)
Over the weekend, I received my April issue of The Diapason, an “international monthly devoted to the organ, the harpsichord, carillon, and church music.” I turned immediately to one of my favorite columns, written by John Bishop, and this month’s topic was “A matter of manners.” Mr. Bishop described a visit to a New York… Read More A quiet miracle
Yesterday, our long-time friend from the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians, Randy Knutson, sent me this cartoon and it reminded me about what I wanted to write about for a long time — the organ prelude. Now, if we were in the Mormon church, we would read this from the Church Handbook of Instructions: “Quiet… Read More The organ prelude