By Gail Archer In fall, 2007, I was appointed College Organist at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York. Vassar, a former a member of the Seven Sisters, is now a co-educational…
Month: May 2018
Dr. Karen Black is the Rudi Inselmann Endowed Professor of Organ at Wartburg College, Waverly, Iowa. She teaches organ and church music, music theory and aural skills, serves as organist…
by Nancy Cooper In the past few years, I have come face-to-face with retirement, and not by my own choice. My place of employment for the last 25 years, The…
By Olivia J. Kiers I grew up in the rural Shenandoah Valley outside Staunton, VA, on a winding, country road teaming with pipe organ-builders. Taylor and Boody Organbuilders is a…
I’ve had the pleasure now of performing and/or recording on at least four of the oldest organs of the world: Sion, Switzerland (1435); Rysum, Germany (1457); Oosthuizen, Netherlands (late 1400s);…