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Superb new organ in town ...

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Quimby Pipe Organ company just completed a IV/57 at Catalina United Methodist Church here in Tucson. It replaced a III/34 Reuter that was built in 1957. Most of the old pipework was able to be re-used in the new instrument.

This new instrument now becomes the 2nd largest pipe organ in our town ... the 1st largest is a III/65 Aeolian Skinner in an Episcopal parish.

Ken Cowan played a magnificent Dedicatory Recital this past Friday evening. The church was packed full.

Today (Saturday) there was a Q & A with the builder, Mike Quimby, and their lead voicer, Eric Johnson, fielding questions about the organ.

We also got to see a powerpoint presentation of the complete restoration of the St. John the Divine organ (NYC) which was done by Quimby, Warrensburg, Mo.

Mr Cowan's program:
  • Fete, Op. 51 Jean Langlais
  • Beelzebub's Laugh (Etude-Caprice, Op 66) Rachel Laurin
  • Wachet auf, ruft uns die stimme J. S. Bach
  • Von Gott will ich night lassen
  • Nun freut euch, lieben Christen gmein
  • Fuge a la Gigue (BWV 577)
  • Prelude to Die Meistersinger Richard Wagner

In the 2nd half of the program:
  • Pastorale Roger-Ducasse
  • Danse Macabre Saint-Saens
  • Fantasy on the Chorale Wachet auf Max Reger

The organ was first played, and dedicated, on Easter Sunday.

Kh ♫
 

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I might be able to get some recordings of it when we do the AGO organ crawl this summer. The last organ crawl we did, I took along my Zoom H-4 digital recorder and my camera.

Kh ♫
 
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