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Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, home of our Op. 76, announces its 2010-11 Master Musicians: Organ series. Recitals will be presented by Gunnar Idenstam (6 November 2010), Joan Lippincott (26 February 2011), and Thierry Escaich (16 April 2011).
If you’re unable to attend these programs, you may be interested in some recordings. Delos has announced the 31 August release of a disc featuring Cherry Rhodes. Recorded live on 14 October 2006, her program was the first full-length solo recital presented on the Fred J. Cooper Memorial Organ. It can be pre-ordered at Amazon. Also of interest is a recent disc of Alan Morrison and The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia that features Eric Sessler’s Organ Concerto as well as works by Anne Wilson, Bach, Jongen, Locklair and Hampton. It’s available through iTunes or as a CD from the OHS Catalog.
For information about these and other CDs, visit our Recordings page.
Lynn Dobson and John Panning attended the biennial congress of the International Society of Organbuilders, held this year in Montréal, Québec. John has posted photos of the first three days, 8-10 August, in this Facebook album; photos from the second half of the congress, 11-13 August, are in this album.
Restorative repairs are underway at Luther College’s Center for Faith and Life, home of a three-manual organ by Robert Sipe. Built in 1978 and subject to unremitting daily use for over three decades, the organ is being cleaned and some mechanical improvements made. Though there will be no tonal changes, re-regulation of the pipework is being undertaken to correct any imbalances that have crept in over the years.
Installation of our Op. 89 for Sykes Chapel at the University of Tampa began on Monday 21 June 2010. Tonal finishing is scheduled to get underway after Labor Day, and the organ completed before the end of the year. Check out our page of installation photos.
We’re delighted to announce that we will be building our Op. 90 for Independent Presbyterian Church in Birmingham, Alabama. The church’s choral program attained international acclaim under the direction of Joseph W. Schreiber, to whose memory the new organ will be dedicated. Under the leadership of Jeff R. McLelland, Independent Presbyterian continues its support of music and the fine arts. The church’s original pipe organ, built in 1924 as Op. 516 of the Skinner Organ Company, was rebuilt by Æolian-Skinner in 1969 as Op. 516-A, enlarged by M.P. Möller in 1975 and 1982, and again rebuilt following a fire in 1992. The new instrument will be completed in 2012.
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Now that the organ for the University of Tampa is being installed, construction of Op. 88 for St. Andrews Lutheran Church in Park Ridge is underway.
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In celebration of our company’s 35th anniversary, we have made an online exhibit of some of Lynn Dobson’s drawings. One of the most highly-regarded case designers of his generation, Dobson has proven to be equally at home in modern or historically-inspired idioms. Lynn A. Dobson: Drawings & Projects presents a selection of work from 1974–2009, and includes unrealized designs as well as built instruments.
Wayne State College in Wayne, Nebraska, announces that Lynn Dobson (WSC ’71) has been selected as the 2010 Outstanding Alumnus for the School of Arts and Humanities. A graduate with majors in Art and Industrial Education, Lynn taught high school art in Plattsmouth, Nebraska, for one year before realizing that his true calling was building pipe organs. Lynn will be recognized at WSC’s awards banquet on Homecoming Weekend, Friday, 24 September 2010.
Our Op. 75 in Los Angeles’ Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels is featured during the month of November in the 2010 Choir & Organ Calendar. As a month-by-month bonus, visitors to the Choir & Organ website will be able to view the specification and download an mp3 recording of each month’s instrument.
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