Autumn 2005 Whole Number 89. Copyright 2005 Chicago-Midwest Chapter, Organ Historical Society. All rights reserved.

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1 The Stopt Diapason Autumn 2005 Whole Number 89 Copyright 2005 Chicago-Midwest Chapter, Organ Historical Society. All rights reserved. CELEBRATING TWENTY-FIVE YEARS IN Another historic organ comes to the Chicago-Midwest region Hook & Hastings opus 1418 The 1889 Hook & Hastings opus 1418, built for the First Baptist Church of Harwich, Massachusetts, is pictured above with its original decorative scheme. The organ will be removed from the Massachusetts church in October for relocation to Saint Andrew Episcopal Church, Valparaiso, Indiana, in Further details can be found on pages 3 and 4. The Stopt Diapason, a journal devoted to the history of the organ in Chicago and the Midwest, is published quarterly by the Chicago-Midwest Chapter of the Organ Historical Society, Inc., a not-for-profit, educational organization. The Chicago-Midwest Chapter is a 501(c)(3) corporation incorporated in the State of Illinois.

2 From the President: Fall Greetings to All: As we begin our very busy Fall seasons with the full complement of the many choir rehearsals, services and special liturgies, let us take time to remember our many friends from New Orleans and the surrounding areas affected by the hurricane "Katrina". I have been notified that our OHS friends have temporarily relocated to many other parts of the country in fact, this may be permanent depending on the length of time for those areas to recover and rebuild. It is important to also leave time to think of the work that will be necessary in the rebuilding and replacing of the many organs and churches that may have been lost. Some important Board appointments to announce: James R. Brown will shepherd the Membership Task force in recruiting new members for the Chapter. Br. Ben Basile will be the chief liaison for communicating all information in updating the Chapter Web Site Please contact these individuals for your suggestions in these areas of Chapter activities. Remember that this year is the celebration of the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Chicago-Midwest Chapter OHS. It is still not too late for ideas and program suggestions for this special year of celebratory events! Many thanks to Chapter Member Stephen Schnurr for his recital on the 1894 L. H. Van Dinter & Son organ on September 18 at Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Huntington, Indiana. A Historic Organ Citation Plaque was also presented during the program to the church. Speaking of programs - here are the next installments of special events for our Anniversary year: October 16, 7:00 p.m. Susan Friesen in recital on the 1698 Hartmann organ at the Church of the Brethren General Board Offices in Elgin, Illinois, along with the presentation of an OHS Historic Organ Citation. November 12, 10:00 a.m. Fall Organ Crawl co-sponsored by the North Shore Chapter American Guild of Organists along the "posh" North Shore. Organs on the crawl include Aeolian- Votey, Schlicker, Kimball, and Casavant. See you at the 1698 Hartmann organ recital on October 16! Sincerely, Bob Woodworth, Jr. President Chicago-Midwest Chapter OHS CHICAGO-MIDWEST CHAPTER Board Members President: Robert E. Woodworth, Jr North Sheridan Road, #39B Chicago, Illinois (773) r.woodworth.jr@worldnet.att.net Secretary: Derek E. Nickels Church of the Holy Comforter 222 Kenilworth Avenue Kenilworth, Illinois Office: (847) , extension 17 denickels@holycomforter.org Treasurer: Susan Werner Friesen 1522 Monroe Street Lake in the Hills, Illinois Residence: (847) Office: (847) Cell: (847) s.friesen@sbcglobal.net Members at large: Br. Benjamin Basile, C.PP.S. Calumet College of Saint Joseph 2400 New York Avenue Whiting, Indiana Residence: (219) Office: (219) Fax: (219) bensb2@aol.com James Russell Brown Music Institute of Chicago 1409 Chicago Avenue Evanston, Illinois (847) , extension jbrown@musicinst.org Daniel R. Driscoll 1224 Elmwood Avenue, #2-W Evanston, Illinois Residence: (847) drdden@hotmail.com Stephen J. Schnurr, Jr. c/o Saint Paul Catholic Church Post Office Box 1475 Valparaiso, Indiana (219) (219) (fax) stephen.schnurr.mus.95@aya.yale.edu 2

3 CALENDAR OF CHAPTER EVENTS FOR AS OF SEPTEMBER 21, ) Sunday, October 16, 2005, 7:00 p.m., Church of the Brethren General Board Offices, 1451 Dundee Road, Elgin, Illinois, recital and presentation of OHS Historic Organ Citation for 1698 Johann Christoph Harttman organ of one manual. Recitalist will be Susan R. Werner Friesen. Citation to be presented by Stephen Schnurr. Further information in the next issue. 2) Saturday, November 12, 2005, annual Autumn Organ Crawl of the North Shore, co-sponsored by the North Shore Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. Churches include Grace United Methodist Church, Lake Bluff (1933 W. W. Kimball, three manuals), First Presbyterian Church, Lake Forest (1973 Casavant, two manuals), and Lily Reid Holt Chapel, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, Illinois (c Æolian-Votey, two manuals), and Arnold T. Olson Chapel, Trinity International University, Deerfield, Illinois (1980 Casavant, two manuals). Directions and more detailed information appear on pages of this issue. CALENDAR OF AREA EVENTS If you know of an organ event in the chapter area which should be announced, please contact Derek Nickels (contact information found on page 2) 1) Sunday, October 2, 2005, 2:30 p.m., Richard Hoskins plays Bach, Distler, Reger, Duruflé, Dupré, and Vierne on the newly completed C. B. Fisk Op. 123 at St. Chrystostom s Episcopal Church, 1424 N. Dearborn Parkway, Chicago, IL. For more information, visit 2) Sunday, October 2, 2005, 4:00 p.m., Ken Cowan plays the dedicatory recital on the recently completed three manual, sixty rank Berghaus organ at St. Raphael Catholic Church, 1215 Modaff Road, Naperville, IL. For more information, please contact the church office at (630) ) Sunday, October 2, 2005, 4:00 p.m., Derek Nickels plays music by Bach, Bingham, Eben, Krebs, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Sowerby, and Stanley on the 1965 M. P. Möller organ at St. Elisabeth s Episcopal Church, 556 Vernon Avenue, Glencoe, IL. For more information, visit 4) Sunday, October 16, 2005, 4:00 p.m. Richard Hoskins plays Bach, Distler, and Couperin on Karl Wilhelm organ at the Chicago Theological Seminary, 5757 S. University Avenue, Chicago, IL. For more information, visit 5) Tuesday, October 25, 2005, 7:30 p.m., Ken Sotak plays the dedicatory recital on the recently completed threemanual, sixty rank Berghaus organ at Queen of All Saints Basilica, 6280 N. Sauganash Avenue, Chicago, IL. For more information, please contact the church office at (773) ) Friday, October 28, 2005, Fourth Presbyterian Church, 126 Chestnut Street, presents Derek Nickels, 12:10 p.m. in music of Bach, Bingham, Krebs, Saint-Saëns, Sowerby, Vierne, and Widor. For more information, visit 7) Friday, October 28, 2005, North Shore Chapter of the America Guild of Organists presents Mario Duella, 8:00 p.m. at St. Giles Episcopal Church, 3025 Walters Avenue, Northbrook, IL. Tickets are $10 for AGO members and $15 for non-members. Works performed on the 1993 two-manual, twenty-five rank organ include those by Bossi, Capocci, Centemeri, Petrali, Scarlatti. For more information, telephone (847) ) Sunday, October 30, 2005, 3:00 p.m., the Cathedral Arts Concert Series and the Northwest Indiana Chapter of the American Guild of Organists presents Mario Duella of Italy in recital at the Cathedral of the Holy Angels, Seventh Avenue and Tyler Street, Gary, IN. The two-manual, thirty-three rank organ was built in 1963 by Casavant Frères, Limitée (opus 2769). For more information or directions, telephone (219) ) Sunday, November 6, 2005, 4:00 p.m., Richard Hoskins plays Bach, Distler, Dupré, Ferko, Vierne, and Widor on the Dobson organ at Kenilworth Union Church, 211 Kenilworth Avenue, Kenilworth, IL. For more information, visit 10) Friday, November 18, 2005, Fourth Presbyterian Church, 126 Chestnut Street, presents Richard Hoskins, 12:10 p.m. in music of Ferko, Messiaen, Vierne and Widor. For more information, visit 11) Sunday, January 29, 2006, 3:00 p.m., the Cathedral Arts Concert Series presents Ricardo Ramirez, Associate Director of Music for the Cathedral of the Holy Name, Chicago, Illinois, in recital at Saint Mary of the Lake Catholic Church, 6060 Miller Avenue, Gary, IN. The two-manual, twenty-seven rank organ was built in 1963 by Casavant Frères, Limitée (opus 2740). For more information or directions, telephone (219) ) Friday, June 16, 2006, Fourth Presbyterian Church, 126 Chestnut Street, presents Stephen J. Schnurr, Jr., 12:10 p.m. works by Bach/Vivaldi, Bruhns, Merkel, and Sweelinck. 3

4 ORGAN NEWS Saint Andrew Episcopal Church, Bullseye Lake Road, Valparaiso, Indiana, is to have an historic Hook & Hastings organ installed in its new sanctuary. The parish recently moved from its century-old building on Erie Street at Calumet Avenue in downtown Valparaiso. The 1963 Schantz unit organ of two manuals which served this sanctuary is described in The Stopt Diapason, whole issue 68, Summer 2000, pages Hook & Hastings opus 1418 was built in 1889 for the First Baptist Church of Harwich, Massachusetts. The Cape Cod church has offered the organ for sale for the past two years through the Organ Clearing House. The organ is the second relocation to Valparaiso through the Organ Clearing House, the first being the 1883 Johnson & Son opus 615 in the Chapel of Mary, Queen of the Apostles, Saint Paul Catholic Church, featured at the 2002 National Convention of the Organ Historical Society. Removal of the organ from Harwich is scheduled for October. The organ will be thoroughly restored with two sympathetic alterations before installation in the Valparaiso church by S. L. Huntington & Co. of Stonington, Connecticut. Installation is scheduled to be complete by October 8, Chapter Board member Stephen Schnurr served as consultant for the church. See illustration on page 1. Specification of 1889 Hook & Hastings opus 1418, as restored by S. L. Huntington & Co. (2006): GREAT (Manual I) SWELL (Manual II Enclosed) 16 Bourdon (from tenor C) 8 Stopped Diapason 8 Open Diapason 8 Viola 8 Melodia 4 Flute Harmonique 8 Dulciana 4 Violina 4 Octave 8 Trumpet (new, replacing 8 Oboe) 2-2/3 Twelfth Tremulant 2 Fifteenth II-III Mixture (new) PEDALE 16 Bourdon 8 Flöte COUPLERS Great to Pedale Swell to Pedale Swell to Great ACCESSORIES Swell expression shoe Bellows signal SAINT PATRICK CATHOLIC CHURCH, 309 South Taylor Street, South Bend, Indiana, announces its intention to have its Austin Organ Company opus 1711 restored. The 1929 instrument is functional, yet needs restorative repairs. Several firms in the region are being consulted as plans formulate. The Great and Choir divisions are enclosed in one chamber at left of the rear choir gallery; the Swell is at the right, with the console in the gallery center. Manual compass is the standard 61 notes (C-C); pedal compass (concave, radiating pedalboard) is 32 notes (C-G). Historic Saint Patrick Parish was founded in 1859 and is the second-oldest Catholic parish in this city. The first church structure was built that same year, a brick church measuring sixty feet by thirty feet. Donations for construction came from throughout the United States, with considerable sums coming from the New Orleans area. An addition was built soon thereafter, including a transept. Initially, the parish served all Catholics in South Bend west of the Saint Joseph River. The present brick Gothic church was constructed in 1877 at a cost of $45, In the 1920 s, a substantial marble altars and other liturgical furnishings were installed. In recent years, the church interior has been restored by the Carl Schmitt Studios, Inc., of New Berlin, Wisconsin. The parish has been paired with Saint Hedwig Church, one block distant, for pastoral administration. According to Chapter member George Nelson of Seattle, Washington, the church appears on the opus list of the Derrick & Felgemaker firm of Erie, Pennsylvania. The instrument, opus 290, installed c. 1875, would have been built at nearly the same time as opus 256, a large organ installed Sacred Heart Chapel (now basilica) on the campus of nearby Notre Dame University. Both institutions were administered by priests of the Congregation of the Holy Cross. The Stopt Diapason, whole issue 42, pages 15 through 17, relates that the parish at some point also owned a Van Dinter organ, built 4

5 in nearby Mishawaka. Perhaps the Derrick & Felgemaker organ was built for the earlier church, brought to the present church and found to be insufficient for the size of the new building, and was therefore replaced by the Van Dinter. The Austin organ was dedicated in recital by Dr. J. Lewis Browne of Chicago in December of Organists interested in seeing the organ are invited to contact Terry Meehan, who is spearheading fundraising for the restoration campaign, at ABOVE: Rear gallery of Saint Patrick Catholic Church in South Bend, Indiana, with pipework of Austin Organ Company Opus 1711 in twin chambers on either side of Rose window. GREAT (Manual II Enclosed with Choir) 16 Bourdon 8 Open Diapason 8 Clarabella 8 Gemshorn 8 Gemshorn Celeste (from tenor C) 4 Principal 2 Fifteenth (extension, 4 Principal) 8 French Trumpet Tremolo Chimes (Mayland, with volume dial with 5 settings and off) Great to Great 16 Great to Great 4 Swell to Great 16 Swell to Great 8 Swell to Great 4 Choir to Great 16 5

6 Choir to Great 8 Choir to Great 4 SWELL (Manual III Enclosed) 16 Bourdon 8 Open Diapason 8 Stopped Flute (extension, 16 Bourdon) 8 Salicional 8 Voix Celeste (from tenor C) 4 Flute (extension, 16 Bourdon) 2-2/3 Nazard 2 Flautino (extension, 16 Bourdon) 1-3/5 Tierce 16 Double Oboe 8 Oboe (extension, 16 Double Oboe) 8 Vox Humana (in separate enclosure, with Tremolo) 4 Clarion Tremolo Swell to Swell 16 Swell to Swell 4 CHOIR (Manual I Enclosed with Great) 16 Contra Viole 8 Geigen Principal 8 Viole (extension, 16 Contra Viole) 8 Concert Flute 8 Unda Maris (from tenor C) 8 Dulciana 4 Flute (extension, 8 Concert Flute) 2 Harmonic Piccolo (extension, 8 Concert Flute) 8 English Horn Tremolo Chimes (from Great, Chimes) Choir to Choir 16 Choir to Choir 4 Swell to Choir 16 Swell to Choir 8 Swell to Choir 4 PEDAL 16 Open Diapason 16 Bourdon (from Great, 16 Bourdon?) 16 Dolce Bourdon (from Swell, 16 Bourdon) 8 Gross Flute (extension, 16 Open Diapason) 4 Flute (extension, 16 Open Diapason) 16 Double Oboe (from Swell, 16 Double Oboe) Great to Pedal 8 Great to Pedal 4 Swell to Pedal 8 Swell to Pedal 4 Choir to Pedal 8 ACCESSORIES 11 General pistons (1-8 thumb, above Manual III; 9-11 toe) 8 Great pistons (thumb, under Manual II) 8 Swell pistons (thumb, under Manual III) 8 Choir pistons (thumb, under Manual I) 3 Pedal pistons (toe) Great cancel bar (above Great stops) Swell cancel bar (above Swell stops) Choir cancel bar (above Choir stops) 6

7 Pedal cancel bar (above Pedal stops) Great Unison On (tab at upper left) Choir Unison On (tab at upper left) Great and Choir expression shoe (with indicator dial) Sforzando reversible (toe, with indicator light) Great to Pedal reversible (toe) Swell Unison On (tab at upper left) Swell expression shoe (with indicator dial) Crescendo shoe (with indicator dial) ABOVE: Two views of the Austin in Saint Patrick Catholic Church, South Bend, Indiana; console to the left, and the Great division pipework to the right. Information for this article has been gathered from: The Diocese of Fort Wayne: Fragments of History, volume II, the Most Reverend John F. Noll, D.D., Fifth Bishop of Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1941, page 294; The American Organist, December 1929, page 691; and through onsite visit. 7

8 A rare J. P. Seeburg pipe organ has been removed to safe storage in the basement of the residence of Stephen Schnurr in Gary, Indiana. The one-manual, three-rank instrument has tubular-pneumatic action and includes a player mechanism and apparently was designed for residential use. The instrument was removed from a residence in the Marquette Park neighborhood of Chicago shortly before the residence sold. The organ has not played in fifty years and needs considerable restorative repairs. Manual compass is 61 notes (C-C); pedal compass (flat, straight pedalboard) is 13 notes (C-C). It is believed that the organ was built between 1915 and Chapter members John Shanahan, Br. Benjamin Basile, and Derek Nickels assisted with removal. Specification of J. P. Seeburg organ: Manual 8 Stopped Diapason (61 pipes) 8 Melodia (from tenor C 37 pipes) 8 Dolce (from tenor C 37 pipes, 27 pipes missing) Chimes (console preparation) Organ On/Organ Off Piano to Organ (console preparation) Super Octave Pedal Bass Tremolo HISTORIC ORGAN CITATION TO BE PRESENTED TO 1698 HARTTMAN ORGAN IN ELGIN, ILLINOIS, DURING RECITAL ON SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2005, 7:00 P.M. The Chicago-Midwest Chapter will sponsor an organ recital by Chapter Board member Susan Friesen on Sunday, October 16, 2005, at 7:00 p.m., in the Chapel of the Church of the Brethren General Offices, 1451 Dundee Avenue, Elgin, Illinois. During the recital, Stephen Schnurr, Chair of the Organ Historical Society Historic Organ Citation Committee, will present Citation #330 for the Johan Christoph Harttman (or Hartmann?) organ, built in The organ is the only known surviving work of this German builder and is one of the oldest organs in the United States. This builder was active in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries in the Württemberg region of Germany. This instrument was probably built for a resident of Tübingen. At some point, Henry Kurtz purchased it, and he brought it to the United States in After Kurtz s death in 1874, the organ remained in the family for a while, particularly with Kurtz s son, Jacob. Eventually, the organ was placed in Bethel Church in Poland, Ohio. When this church relocated, the organ again returned to the Kurtz family. By 1952, Levi P. Good, a great-grandson of Kurtz, had acquired the organ and placed it in storage in a barn. In 1957, the organ was given to the Brethren Historical Committee and moved to Elgin, Illinois. John Brombaugh & Company undertook a restoration in The case is not original and appears to date from the early nineteenth century. Compass is 48 notes, CC, DD-c 3. The instrument is pumped either through a foot lever at the front or by a handle at the rear of the case. The organ was featured in recital at the 1984 National Convention of the Organ Historical Society. Specification of 1698 Johann Christoph Harttman organ: MANUAL 8 (stopped wood 48 pipes) 4 (open wood 48 pipes) 2 (open metal 48 pipes) 8

9 Susan Friesen s recital will consist of the following (subject to change): Lo Ballo dell Intorcia The Old World Antonio Valente ca ? from Fiori Musicali (1635) Missa In dominicis infra annum (Orbis factor) Kyrie ; Canzon dopo l Epistola; Canzon post il Comune Partite sopra la Aria della Folia da Espagna Werde munter, mein Gemeute, Choral mit 4 Variationen Girolamo Frescobaldi Bernardo Pasquini Johann Pachelbel Variations on Adeste Fideles Pastorale Oh, Blest the House, Whate er Befall Gloria Hymn Let Us Ever Walk with Jesus Text: Sigismund von Birken Tune: Georg G. Bolze, 18 th cent. Let Us Ever Walk with Jesus The New World Raynor Taylor William Clarke Natalie Jenne b.1934 Alec Wyton b Lasset uns mit Jesu ziehen Richard Hillert b DIRECTIONS From Downtown Chicago to Elgin: Take the Kennedy Expressway (I-90) and continue on the Northwest Tollway for approximately 36 miles. Exit at IL-25 exit, which will be Dundee Avenue/IL Route 25. You will cross over the tollway to pay the toll ($.30). Turn left on Dundee Avenue and left again after approximately 0.1 of a mile into the parking lot of the Brethren General Offices. The estimated travel time is around 55 minutes. 9

10 ABOVE: Interior of First Presbyterian Church in Lake Forest, Illinois AUTUMN ORGAN CRAWL TO VISIT FOUR INSTRUMENTS ALONG NORTH SHORE EVENT CO-SPONSORED BY THE NORTH SHORE CHAPTER OF THE AGO SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2005 SCHEDULE: 10:00 a.m. Grace United Methodist Church 244 E. Center Avenue, Lake Bluff 11:00 a.m. First Presbyterian Church 700 N. Sheridan Road, Lake Forest Noon Lunch on your own (suggestions will be provided) 1:30 p.m. Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel, Lake Forest College, 555 N. Sheridan Road, Lake Forest 2:30 p.m. Arnold T. Olson Chapel, Trinity International University, 2065 Half Day Road, Deerfield Complete directions will be found at the end of this article. Participants are asked to bring this edition with them to the organ crawl. AGO and OHS Members and their guests are invited to participate for all or any part of the day s events, as they are able. LAKE BLUFF, ILLINOIS, Grace United Methodist Church, East Center and Scranton Avenues. In 1887, the Grace Methodist Episcopal Church was founded. Many of the founding members attended Grace Church of Chicago. Initial meetings were held in members homes. The first building was erected and dedicated in 1891, four years before the Village of Lake Bluff was incorporated. In 1899, the Methodist Lake Bluff Camp Meeting Association was disbanded and its 2,500 seat tabernacle was demolished. With a donation of $4,000, present site was acquired. With only minor changes, the structure served until 10

11 1948 when major renovations and additions resulted in the present sanctuary, Northrop Chapel, Fellowship Hall and Fireplace Room. Benjamin Franklin Olson was architect. In 1959 the Education Building was added. The first organ owned by the congregation was built in 1916 by A. B. Felgemaker of Erie, Pennsylvania. Opus 1226 was a two-manual, electro-pneumatic action organ of about fifteen ranks. George Nelson of Seattle, Washington relates that the Swell chest had 73-notes. A combination action provided three Great and Pedal and four Swell and Pedal combinations, with General Release. In addition to the Swell expression shoe, a Crescendo shoe was also provided. No further information on this organ has come to light. The present sanctuary was initially served by an electronic substitute. The present pipe organ was built in 1929 by the W. W. Kimball Co. of Chicago for the Church of the Holy Spirit, Episcopal, of nearby Lake Forest. In 1972, when Holy Spirit replaced the Kimball with a new Harrison & Harrison organ, the Episcopal church gave the organ to the Lake Bluff congregation. Frank J. Sauter & Sons moved the organ to the present site in 1973 and have carried out some alterations and additions to the instrument over the years. A dedication recital was given in Grace Church in April of 1974 by Robert Huhn, organist, and Charles Smith, pianist. Sauter installed some additions in 1988 and 1989, at which time a rededication recital occurred in April of 1989 by Gary Stuart. The original console is still in use and still has its K.P.O plate, indicating its opus number. BELOW: Interior of Grace United Methodist Church, Lake Bluff, Illinois, with organ console to the right and front of chancel area. Present specification of W. W. Kimball K.P.O.7071 (abbreviations as found at the console): GREAT ORGAN (Manual II 7 ½ wind pressure) 8 Open Diap. (73 pipes) 8 Viola Diap. (73 pipes) 8 Gross Flute (73 pipes) 8 Gems. (73 pipes) 11

12 4 Octave (73 pipes) 2-2/3 Twelfth (61 pipes) 2 Fifteen [sic] (61 pipes) III Mixture (183 pipes)* Tremolo Chimes (20 tubes tenor A through soprano E) Tower Chimes 2 blank tablets Great Sub 16 Great Super 4 Swell Sub 16 Swell Unis. 8 Swell Super 4 Choir Unis. 8 Choir Super 4 SWELL ORGAN (Manual III 5 wind pressure) 16 Bourdon (73 pipes) 8 Chim. Flute (73 pipes) 8 Viola (73 pipes) 8 Salic. (73 pipes) 8 Voix Celeste (draws Viola 73 pipes) 4 Principal (probably old 8 Diapason repitched 61 pipes) 4 Flute Harm. (73 pipes) 2 Flaut. (61 pipes) IV Mixture (183 pipes)* 8 Cornop. (73 pipes) 8 Oboe Horn (73 pipes) 8 Vox Humana (73 pipes) Tremolo Vox Vib 8 Fanfare Trompette (copper, mounted horizontally in chamber 61 pipes)* 1 blank tablet Swell Sub 16 Swell Super 4 Choir Sub 16 Choir Unis. 8 Choir Super 4 CHOIR ORGAN (Manual I 7 ½ wind pressure) 8 Melodia (73 pipes) 8 Dulc. (73 pipes) 8 Unda Maris (73 pipes) 4 Flute d Amour (bored stoppers 73 pipes) 2-2/3 Nazard (61 pipes)* 2 Principal (61 pipes)* 1-3/5 Tierce (61 pipes)* 8 Clarinet (73 pipes) 8 Tromba (originally in Great, spotted metal resonators, 5 open metal trebles 73 pipes) Tremolo 8 Fanfare Trompette (from Swell, 8 Fanfare Trompette)* Tremolo 1 blank tablet Swell Sub 16 Swell Super 4 Choir Sub 16 Choir Unis. 8 Choir Super 4 PEDAL ORGAN 32 Acoustical Bass (resultant, from 16 Bourdon) 16 Trombone (actually 16 Diaphone, extension of 8 Open Diapason 12 pipes) 16 Bass Viol (44 pipes) 16 Bourdon (extension, Great, 8 Gross Flute, 12 pipes) 16 Lieb. Ged. from Swell 16 Bourdon 8 Flute (from Great, 8 Gross Flute) 8 Cello (extension, 16 Bass Viol) 12

13 8 Still Ged. (from Swell, 16 Bourdon) 8 Open Diap. (originally in Great (?) 44 pipes) 4 Choral Bass (extension, 8 Open Diap.) Chimes Tower Chimes Great to Pedal 8 Great to Pedal 4 Swell to Pedal 8 Swell to Pedal 4 Choir to Pedal 8 Choir to Pedal 4 ACCESSORIES 6 General pistons (thumb, above Manual III (cash-register type), and toe) 6 Swell pistons (thumb, below Manual III) 6 Great pistons (thumb, below Manual II) 6 Choir pistons (thumb, below Manual I) 6 Pedal pistons (toe) Great Unison Off (thumb, on/off, left key cheek, Manual II) Swell Unison Off (thumb, on/off, left key cheek, Manual III) Choir Unison Off (thumb, on/off, left key cheek, Manual I) Great to Pedal reversible (toe) Chimes soft (toe, with indicator light) Chimes sust. (toe, with indicator light) Swell expression shoe Great/Choir expression shoe Cresc. shoe (with indicator light) Master Pedal Lock (All Swells to Swell, toe, with indicator light) Sforz reversible (toe, with indicator light) ABOVE: Two views of the Kimball in Grace United Methodist Church, Lake Bluff, Illinois; console to the left, and the Choir division pipework to the right. 13

14 LAKE FOREST, ILLINOIS, First Presbyterian Church, North Sheridan and Deerpath Roads. As early as 1856, the Reverend Robert Patterson and members of the Second Presbyterian Church of Chicago began to visit the area which became Lake Forest, with the intention of beginning a community which would focus on establishing a Presbyterian university for this region. On July 24, 1859, the First Presbyterian Church of Lake Forest was formally organized with a membership of fourteen persons. Meetings were initially held in the Chapel of the Lake Forest Academy. On November 23, 1859, a meeting of the congregation organized the Society of the First Presbyterian Church of Lake Forest, at which time trustees were elected. The Reverend William Cowper Dickinson, an Academy faculty member, conducted many of the early services and was called as the first full-time pastor in 1862, the year the first church building was erected, described: a Gothic design frame cottage in the form of a cross, with a pointed roof, two low spires on either side of the front door, and windows of clear glass. Reverend Dickinson was installed as pastor on May 10, 1864, remaining until June 1867, when he left for the Calvary Presbyterian Church of Chicago. In 1868, the Reverend James H. Taylor was called to Lake Forest from the Old Brick Church, Orange, New Jersey. During his tenure, additions were made to the original church to accommodate larger membership: wings at the sides of the church to seat students of the nearby Academy, and a lecture room adjoining the church. In November 1881, the Reverend James Gore King McClure became fourth pastor of the church. In 1886, plans for the present church on Sheridan Road were commenced to the design of Charles Sumner Frost of Chicago s Cobb and Frost. The plant would include a manse for the pastor. The stones of this building came largely from the Second Presbyterian Church of Chicago, then at Wabash and Washington Streets, which had burned in the Great Fire of October (These stones were quarried in 1848 from a site now at Chicago and Western Avenues. By the time of the fire, Second Church had sold the property to Timothy Wright and Joseph and John Medill. When the church building burnt, Wright had the stones shipped to Winnetka, where he had planned to build a church in memory of his mother near his residence. For unknown reasons, this did not occur, though Wright had belonged to the Unitarian Church in Winnetka, which eventually became the Winnetka Congregational Church. Wright sold the stones to Robert Hall McCormick, of the well-known McCormick family, who were Presbyterians. McCormick had originally planned to build a residence for himself with these stones, on property west of Lake Forest. The stones still sat unused for several years, until the Lake Forest Church purchased them for use in their present building.) The church was dedicated on June 1, Dr. Patterson, who had presided over the dedication of Second Church, Chicago, both the Wabash and Michigan Avenue churches, preached at this dedication as well. In 1902, Louis C. Tiffany of New York City, New York, redecorated the sanctuary. Over the course of several years thereafter, a triptych of windows above the chancel and several windows along the nave were installed in the nave Tiffany. One of these windows was given in memory of Lily Reid Holt, in whose name the Chapel of Lake Forest College, visited on this Crawl, was built. Additional windows were eventually done by Charles J. Connick, Franz Schroeder, Frank Drebobl, Henry Wynd Young, and Botti Studio of Architectural Arts, Inc. In 1905, Reverend Dr. McClure left First Church to become President of the McCormick Theological Seminary of Chicago. The Reverend Dr. William Hugh Wray Boyle, pastor of the House of Hope Presbyterian Church of Saint Paul, Minnesota, was called as pastor of First Church. Soon thereafter, an addition was made to the church building for Sunday School purposes, with stones matching the original, designed by Frost. Even in the early 1860 s music was a recorded part of the worship life of the church. A history of the congregation mentions a volunteer choir led the singing accompanied by a hand-blown organ. Further information on this instrument is not available. The first pipe organ owned by this congregation, the first in Lake Forest, was built by the Hook & Hastings firm of Boston, Massachusetts, a two-manual, 27-stop organ, opus It cost $4, The instrument was first used on June 10, 1887, and was situated in the northwest corner of the church. Charles C. Holt was organist at that time. This instrument was rebuilt and altered in 1925 by the Wangerin-Weickhardt firm of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, becoming a three-manual organ. The project occurred at the same time that the chancel was renovated, and the instrument was placed in chambers above and to the sides of the chancel platform. Siegfried E. Gruenstein, founder and first editor of The Diapason served presided over this organ from 1891 until Gruenstein had been a student at Lake Forest Academy at the time he was hired. James R. Gillette became organist when Gruenstein retired. In 1940, the chancel was renovated to its present form, designed by Stanley Anderson. The Tiffany light fixtures were removed, some of them installed in Reid Chapel at Lake Forest College. Portions of this organ were given to the Second Presbyterian Church of Chicago when the present organ was installed. 14

15 ABOVE: View of the 1973 Casavant Frères, Limitée in rear gallery of First Presbyterian Church, Lake Forest, Illinois The present two-manual, mechanical-action organ was installed by Casavant Frères, Limitée, as their opus 3160, in Stop action is electric with solid-state combination action. The free-standing solid oak case is installed in a rear gallery; the console is detached. Manual compass is 56 notes (C-G); pedal compass is 32 notes (C-G). The organ was designed by Lawrence Phelps of Casavant, but finished by Gerhard Brunzema, who succeeded Phelps. A dedicatory recital was played Robert Anderson on April 15, Richard Enright of Northwestern University was organist of the church at the time of installation. The rear gallery was given over to house the organ and the choir. The balcony of the Chapel houses a two-manual unit organ built by the Schlicker Organ Co. of Buffalo, New York, in The organ is entirely enclosed, save for twelve basses of the Principal, in the façade of the organ, and twelve basses of the Untersatz, stacked horizontally in two rows at the rear of the balcony. The console of rocker-tablet stop control is on the main floor of the chapel, at the rear of the nave. A plaque affixed to the side of the console reads: First Presbyterian Chapel Organ/to the Glory of God in loving/memory of Dianne Lynn Johnson/Given by/members and friends of the/first Presbyterian Church. Great (Manual I, 2-1/4 wind pressure) 16 Quintaden (56 pipes) 8 Prinzipal (56 pipes) 8 Rohrflöte (56 pipes) 8 Stillflöte (56 pipes) 4 Oktav (56 pipes) 4 Spitzflöte (56 pipes) 2-2/3 Nasat (56 pipes) 2 Oktav (56 pipes) Specification of 1973 Casavant Frères, Limitée, opus 3160: 15

16 2 Blockflöte (56 pipes) 1-3/5 Terz (56 pipes) V Mixtur (1-1/3 280 pipes) 8 Trompete (56 pipes) SWELL (Manual II, 2 wind pressure) 8 Salizional (56 pipes) 8 Gedackt (56 pipes) 8 Vox Coelestis (from tenor C 44 pipes) 4 Prinzipal (56 pipes) 4 Koppelflöte (56 pipes) 2 Oktav (56 pipes) 1-1/3 Quintflöte (56 pipes) II Sesquialtera (2-2/3, from tenor C 88 pipes) III Scharf (2/3 168 pipes) 16 Dulzian (56 pipes) 8 Schalmei (56 pipes) Tremulant PEDAL (2-1/2 wind pressure) 16 Prinzipal (32 pipes) 16 Subbass (32 pipes) 8 Oktav (32 pipes) 8 Bordun (32 pipes) 4 Choralbass (32 pipes) IV Mixtur (2 128 pipes) 16 Posaune (32 pipes) 16 Fagott (cylindrical 32 pipes) 8 Trompete (32 pipes) 4 Rohrschalmei (32 pipes) COUPLERS Great to Pedal Swell to Pedal Swell to Great ACCESSORIES 8 General pistons (thumb, under Manual II, and toe) 8 Great pistons (thumb, under Manual I) 8 Swell pistons (thumb, under Manual II) 8 Pedal pistons (thumb, under Manual I, and toe) General Cancel (thumb) 32 levels of combination memory Great to Pedal reversible (thumb and toe) Swell to Pedal reversible (thumb and toe) Swell to Great reversible (thumb and toe) Zimbelstern reversible (toe) Full Organ reversible (thumb and toe, with indicator light) Balanced Swell expression shoe Pulpit indicator light and button Vestry indicator light and button Narthex indicator light and button 16

17 ABOVE: View of the 1965 Schlicker Organ in the Chapel of First Presbyterian Church, Lake Forest, Illinois GREAT (Manual I) 8 Principal (12 basses in façade) 8 Rohrfloete 8 Salicional 4 Octave (extension, 8 Principal) 4 Rohrfloete (extension, 8 Rohrfloete) 2 Blockfloete III Mixture 8 Schalmei 4 Schalmei POSITIV (Manual II) 8 Rohrfloete (from Great, 8 Rohrfloete) 8 Salicional (from Great, 8 Salicional) 4 Blockfloete (extension, Great 2 Blockfloete) 4 Salicional (extension, Great, 8 Salicional) 2 Principal (extension, Great 8 Principal) 1-1/3 Larigot (extension, Great, 2 Blockfloete) 1 Siffloete (extension, Great, 2 Blockfloete) 4 Schalmei (from Great, 8 Schalmei) Tremolo Specification of 1965 Schlicker Organ Co. organ: 17

18 PEDAL 16 Untersatz (extension, Great 8 Rohrfloete, basses unenclosed, horizontal at rear of balcony) 8 Principal (from Great, 8 Principal) 8 Rohrfloete (from Great, 8 Rohrfloete) 8 Salicional (from Positiv, 8 Salicional) 4 Octave (from Great, 8 Principal) 4 Rohrfloete (from Great, 8 Rohrfloete) 2 Blockfloete (from Great, 2 Blockfloete) II Rauschquinte (from Great, Principal at 2 pitch and Blockfloete at 1-1/3 pitch) 16 Schalmei (extension, Great, 8 Schalmei) 4 Schalmei (from Great, 8 Schalmei) ACCESSORIES 2 Comb. pistons, blind, operated by setter pins in rows above each stop, with indicator lights (green for General 1, red for General 2) Balanced expression shoe ANALYSIS Principal (85 pipes) Rohrfloete (85 pipes) Blockfloete (85 pipes) Salicional (73 pipes) Schalmei (85 pipes) Mixture (183 pipes) 18

19 PREVIOUS PAGE: Console of the Casavant in First Presbyterian Church, Lake Forest, Illinois, left; and the console of the Schlicker in the Chapel of First Presbyterian Church, Lake Forest, Illinois, right. Information gathered from: History of First Presbyterian Church, Lake Forest, Illinois, , published by the church; Symbols and Art: First Presbyterian Church of Lake Forest, Illinois, published by the church, 1998; The Memorial Stained-Glass Windows: First Presbyterian Church of Lake Forest, published by the church, n.d.; and The Diapason, May 1973, page 18. ABOVE: Two views of Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel at Lake Forest College. Left, a view looking toward the front of the chapel and the lovely Tiffany window; Right, a view of the keydesk and façade pipes. LAKE FOREST, ILLINOIS, Lake Forest College, Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel, 555 North Sheridan Road. The College was founded in 1857 and is located on a beautiful wooded campus very near the shore of Lake Michigan. This diminutive, gracious chapel of Tudor Gothic influence was built in 1899 and The organ is believed to have been built by the Æolian-Votey Company in 1900 as their opus 887. The two-manual instrument is housed in a chamber at the right front of the chancel. At some point, much of the console interior was replaced by supply house parts. The organ is largely unused and needs repairs; however, the College administration is aware of the historic nature of this instrument and hopes to raise funds for its eventual restoration. 19

20 Specification of 1900 Æolian-Votey Company opus 887: GREAT (Manual I, Enclosed with Swell) 8 Open Diapason (unenclosed, 12 basses in façade 61 pipes) 8 Melodia (stopped bass 61 pipes) 8 Dulciana (61 pipes) 4 Flute d Amour (61 pipes) 8 Chimes (tenor A 20 tubes) Great to Great 16 Great Unison Separation (tab at upper left) Great to Great 4 Swell to Great 16 Swell to Great 8 Swell to Great 4 SWELL (Manual II Enclosed) 8 Violin Diapason (61 pipes) 8 Stopped Diapason (61 pipes) 8 Salicional (61 pipes) 4 Flute Harmonique (61 pipes) 8 Oboe (61 pipes) 8 Chimes (from Great, Chimes) Tremulant Swell to Swell 16 Swell Unison Separation (tab at upper left) Swell to Swell 4 PEDAL 16 Bourdon (44 pipes) 8 Flute (extension, 16 Bourdon) Great to Pedal 8 Swell to Pedal 8 Swell to Pedal 4 ACCESSORIES 12 General Pistons (1-8 for thumb, 9-12 for toe) General Cancel (thumb) Combination Adjuster (thumb) Expression shoe (mechanical) Information gathered from Pipe Organs of Chicago, by Stephen J. Schnurr, Jr., and Dennis E. Northway, published by the authors, 2005, pages

21 ABOVE: Two views of the Arnold T. Olson Chapel at Trinity International University, Deerfield, Illinois. Left, a view looking toward the front of the chapel and right, a view of the two-manual console. DEERFIELD, ILLINOIS, Trinity International University, Arnold T. Olson Chapel, 2065 Half Day Road. The organ in the Chapel was built by Casavant Frères, Limitée, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada, opus 3464, in The two-manual, twenty-five rank, instrument has electro-pneumatic action. Stop and coupler control by rocking tablets above Manual II. The console is moveable. Manual compass is the standard 61 notes (C-C); pedal compass (concave, radiating pedalboard) is 32 notes (C-G). A plaque on side of console reads: In loving memory of our dear parents, Mr. & Mrs. A. F. Smith, Mr. & Mrs. O. E. Richard, of Austin, Texas. Given by Helen and Carl Richard, October GRAND ORGUE (Manual I) 8 Montre (61 pipes) 8 Flûte à Cheminée (61 pipes) 4 Octave (61 pipes) 4 Flûte Conique (61 pipes) 2-2/3 Nasard (61 pipes) 2 Flûte à Beque (61 pipes) 1-3/5 Tierce (61 pipes) IV Fourniture (244 pipes) 8 Trompette 961 pipes) Tremblant Chimes (Deagan, tenor B-flat through soprano E 19 tubes) Récit au Grand Orgue 16 Récit au Grand Orgue 8 21

22 RÉCIT (Manual II Enclosed) 8 Bourdon (61 pipes) 8 Salicional (61 pipes) 8 Voix Celeste (from tenor C 49 pipes) 4 Flute à Cheminée (61 pipes) 2 Doublette (61 pipes) 1-1/3 Larigot (61 pipes) III Cymbale (183 pipes) 8 Douçaine (61 pipes) Tremblant PÉDALE 16 Contrebasse (extension, 8 Octavebasse, 12 stopped wood basses) 8 Octavebasse (32 pipes) 8 Flûte à Cheminée (from Grand Orgue, 8 Flûte à Cheminée) 4 Octave (44 pipes) 2 Octave (extension, 4 Octave) 16 Bombarde (32 pipes) 8 Trompette (from Grand Orgue, 8 Trompette) Grand Orgue à la Pédale 8 Récit à la Pédale 8 Récit à la Pédale 4 ACCESSORIES 6 General Pistons (thumb and toe) 4 Grand Orgue Pistons (thumb, under Manual I) 4 Récit Pistons (thumb, under Manual II) 4 Pédale Pistons (toe) General Cancel (thumb, under Manual I) Grand Orgue à la Pédale Reversible (thumb and toe) Swell Expression Shoe Crescendo Shoe (with indicator light) Grand Jeu (Sforzando) Reversible (thumb and toe, with indicator light) Wind indicator light Chimes volume dial (5 volume settings and off) DIRECTIONS From Downtown Chicago to Grace United Methodist Church, Lake Bluff, 244 E. Center Avenue: Take the Kennedy Expressway to the Edens Expressway (I-94). Proceed for approximately 15.5 miles and merge onto US-41N via Exit 29 on the left toward Waukegan (approximately 8 miles). Exit on Deerpath toward Lake Forest. Turn right onto Deerpath Road and proceed approximately 1 mile. Turn left onto McKinley Road after railroad crossing (Metra). Proceed on McKinley Road which later becomes Sheridan Road for approximately 1.5 miles. Turn slightly unto Center Avenue. Proceed to 244 E. Center Avenue. Church will be on the Northwest corner of Center Avenue and Glen Avenue side (left). Parking is available behind church off of Glen Avenue. APPROXIMATE DRIVING TIME: 55 minutes From Grace United Methodist Church to First Presbyterian Church, Lake Forest, 700 North Sheridan Road: Take Center Avenue east to Moffett Road. Turn right onto Moffett. Proceed on Moffett for approximately 1.5 miles before Moffett turns into Sheridan Road. At stop sign at Sheridan and Deerpath Roads, turn right, First Presbyterian Church will be on your right. Ample parking is available off of Deerpath Road to the west of the church. APPROXIMATE DRIVING TIME: 7 minutes From First Presbyterian Church, Lake Forest to Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel at Lake Forest College, 555 North Sheridan Road: Exit the parking lot on the north side onto Sheridan Road. At stop sign at Sheridan and Deerpath Roads, proceed on Sheridan across bridge. Turn left on College Avenue for ample parking. Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel is toward Sheridan Road. APPROXIMATE DRIVING TIME: 2 minutes From Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel at Lake Forest College to Arnold T. Olson Chapel at Trinity International University, Deerfield: Exit College by turning right onto Sheridan Road toward Deerpath Road. At stop sign, turn left. Proceed on Deerpath for approximately 1.6 miles. Merge onto N. Skokie Hwy/US-41 S via the ramp on the left. Turn right onto IL-60/W. Kennedy Rd./Townline Rd after only 0.5 miles. Turn left onto IL-43/S Waukegan Road and proceed for approximately 3 miles. Turn right onto Half Day Road/IL-22 and proceed for.9 miles. Trinity International University will be on your left. APPROXIMATE DRIVING TIME: 12 minutes 22

23 The Early Days of the Chicago-Midwest Chapter, OHS by Julie Stephens I first found out about the OHS in 1976, when I attended the big AGO convention in Boston. I found an ad in the AGO magazine for an OHS convention in Detroit in Since that was within driving distance for me, I went to that and became a member of the National OHS. Sometime in the next two years, I made the acquaintance of David McCain, and he started talking about a Chicago Chapter. If I am not mistaken David worked at the offices of the Diapason, where he gained the support of Arthur Lawrence. David knew just about every organist in the Chicago area, and gradually a group kind of coalesced around David. I remember specifically, at one recital, David pointed out one young couple, and said perhaps they would be interested in joining in the project. He invited them, and so Michael and Susan Friesen joined the group. We started meeting in the Diapason offices - David, myself, the Friesens and others whom I do not now remember. Bob Woodworth, Bill Aylesworth, Timothy Smith and Bob Voves eventually joined our little cadre, and we started making plans to become a chapter. In addition to the usual setup procedures with National, we decided we needed to schedule activities and publish a newsletter. At the beginning, David served as President, Susan as Treasurer, and Michael and Susan together edited our newsletter, which we decided to call "The Stopt Diapason". I might have been secretary (I am not sure) but I kept the computer records of membership and printed mailing labels for the "Stopt Diapason". Somewhere along the line I volunteered my services to write a gossip column, under the pseudonym of "Dulciana", the softest stop in the organ. Dulciana s purpose was to add a human touch to the journal, by highlighting the "people" side of our fellowship together, and getting some of the quieter and less well-known member s names into print. Dulciana spoke in colloquialisms, and often suffered under the straight-laced editors hands. In one famous instance, "Met a fella the other day.." became "I met a man the other day..." But Dulciana plugged on, and became a fixture. Through the years, we had great times at organ crawls, including one down-state (Bob Woodworth country) which left us eating supper in a very busy bar. This was much to the consternation of one member, who called his wife to explain why he would be late getting home, and had a hard time explaining the background noise to her. We managed to ferret out just about every organ in Northern Illinois, which is part of the reason we called ourselves the "Chicago-Midwest Chapter". We finally realized that we too could have a convention. Alan Laufman and Bill Van Pelt flew out to see "how we were doing", and were amazed to find out that we had every base covered! In 1984, we put on a highly successful convention, the first one in fly-over country, and introduced OHS members, especially New Englanders, to the beauty of organs west of the Hudson. Just before the convention, David McCain moved out of state, and Bill Aylesworth, who was then President, took over the management of the convention. This was not too difficult to do, as David had planned so well, and the sub-committees (artists, food, transportation) were so well organized that it was a smooth convention. After the convention, with David gone the chapter went into a not-unexpected decline. Finally, one fine day on a cruise ship at some convention, John Bronson sidled up to me and suggested we "could get the chapter moving again." Before long, we were holding board meetings at John s house, and things did get moving again. Bob Voves and George Horwath volunteered to publish the "Stopt Diapason". I served again in my capacity as membership/labels, and also worked for Bob and George in setting up the issues for printing. Also present at- these small meetings was a quiet young man that John introduced as a visiting friend. John remained president until his untimely death. His prescience became evident, and we soon entered the era of that young man who was visiting at John s house - Steve Schnurr. Although we are in a new era as a chapter, may we never forget the one person whose zeal and devotion to the cause brought the chapter into being. If anyone deserves credit for starting the Chicago-Midwest Chapter of the OHS, it is David McCain. 23

24 The beautiful days of Fall are arriving! As I write this column I know that I am joining the many other columnists around the country glued to the television programs and all news media watching and reading of the after-effects of the destructive hurricane known as "Katrina". I was not able to attend the National Convention of the OHS in New Orleans in 1989 but I was able to borrow one of the handbooks from that convention. I have spent the last few days reviewing the organs and churches that were visited during this convention. Just imagine that most of these organs and churches are probably lost forever. Then imagine the organs and churches in all of the southern states that have been affected by this tremendous "storm of the century"! Now the important aspect is the task facing all of us in determining ways of assistance to our organist friends who have had to evacuate the area possibly permanently! I am sure that, aside from most of their personal items lost, there will be a tremendous loss of musical libraries of scores and recordings. The headquarters of the American Guild of Organists has distributed several s noting ways that all of us can assist our musical friends in recovering from this disaster. Recent musings to report on: July 17 I had the privilege of returning to the stately Holy Name Cathedral for one of their Summer Sundays Concerts. The performer today is the young organist William Berg, the organist at Saint Raphael Catholic Church in Naperville. Leading off the program was the Buxtehude Praeludium und Fuga in d-minor. Berg was able to demonstrate his keyboard agility in navigating around the many notes and manual changes during this toccata-like piece. Continuing was a lesson for all of us, A Lesson for the Organ (Allegro, Andante & Jig) by the early English composer William Selby. Demonstrating the various timbres of the Flentrop Organ, Berg played three chorales from Bach's Orgelbüchlein (Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein, Christ lag in Todesbanden & Herr Christ, Der einig Gottes-Sohn). Many, many years ago one of the first books of organ pieces that I bought and then played over and over again for church was the Organ Book of Jean Langlais. Here we heard the mystical sounds of the Prelude from this collection. Now it was time for one of the big pieces on the program, the John Cook Fanfare! I was curious as to how Berg would register this piece of romantic sounds using the 117 rank Flentrop. Well, it worked, so many kudos to Berg for this accomplishment! The closing movements of this recital included the Adagio and Toccata from the Symphonie V by none other than Charles Marie Widor. Thanks to William Berg (and his talented registrants Gary Patin and OHS Chapter Member Steven Betancourt) for an exciting program! (I still wonder though: why did Berg not play music of his namesake, the 18 th century English organist George Berg? Maybe next time!) August 7 another installment program of Summer Sundays Concerts at Holy Name Cathedral was in store for us this early evening with a concert by our Chapter Member Steven Betancourt. Joining him was Daniel Moss, violin, in a concert of varied music and especially including operatic scenes. Betancourt, Music Director at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, Talcott and Harlem, Chicago, most recently played for the Chicago-Midwest Chapter at Saint Mary of the Lake Catholic Church on the Spring Organ Crawl. The music of Felix Mendelssohn, the Prelude and Fugue in c, opus 37, number 1, initiated this program of unique works. Now it was time for the opera to begin, or as usually stated: " the opera is not over until the fat lady sings"! Well, thank goodness there was no fat lady to sing here, but we did hear some wonderful tender melodies from the operatic repertoire! Christoph Wilibald von Glück was represented by his Melodie from Orfeo ed Euridice. The short-lived composer Vincenzo Bellini was represented by lyrical melody Vaga luna che inargenti. Now to the music of one of Bach's contemporaries, 24