Hi Argoth,
I never saw a score on the music rack when Virgil had a recital or concert. Are you at Rice Universtiy or Oberlin Conservatory or at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor or Indiana U in Bloomington? Daniel Roth is unbeatable, Imho.
Just curious,
Corno Dolce
Rice is close, actually I'm at Trinity University in San Antonio. They have a good organ programme under Dr.
Dave Heller. The organ celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, and is a 4 manual, with I believe 102 stops, 112 ranks (I am taking the latter figures off the University wikipedia page since they did some renovations over summer and added new stops, so this is probably around the present figure). Someone has a fairly old webpage dedicated to the organ
here but it is with the old console and has changed a bit since then.
Over the summer, Kegg Pipe organs installed a brand new console (
Picture), since the old one had had it's day. It really does look wonderful, and is supposed to have some special features oriented towards teaching, including a record/playback feature that I didn't know non-Digital (Allen type) organs had. Last week we had a recital by two recent organ graduates currently pursuing their graduate studies at Oberlin and U Michigan respectively, and I enjoyed that too. At the anniversary recital earlier this school year, they read out a list of performers who given recitals on the organ over the years and it did seem like a who's-who of the organ world. The actual age of the organ was also said to be something closer to around 90 years, cos it really goes non-stop from 7a.m. to about 4 or 5 a.m. (students cramming in late practices). There is some talk of Paul Jacobs coming down next year for a recital, I'll be very excited for that! Well sorry for taking this off topic as usual, but I will always hold the sound of this particular instrument near to my heart since it is the one I know best, and hearing it keeps me company when I'd rather not talk to anyone
Nothing I like better than dropping in after classes are done for the day to listen to organ lessons going on, or people practicing.