Tag: Organist

  • Joan Lippincott Legendary Organist Remembered

    Joan Lippincott Legendary Organist Remembered

    Somehow, I am the last to learn of the passing of Joan Lippincott. But just in case I’m not, Lippincott, who was so much a part of the fabric of the local music community, as a student and later a professor of organ at Westminster Choir College and the Curtis Institute of Music and, for a time, principal organist at Princeton University, died on May 31 at the age of 89.

    Here’s an appreciation, with reminiscences and an obituary, shared by one of her former students.

    Legendary Joan Lippincott

    And another, from current University Organist at Princeton University, Eric Plutz.

    https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10163013703036215&set=a.155434051214

    Over the years, I played her recordings for the Gothic Records label on my radio shows. R.I.P.

  • Remembering Berganza and Preston

    Remembering Berganza and Preston

    I was so overtaxed this weekend trying to wrestle an article into submission that I never did get around to acknowledging the passing of the great mezzo-soprano Teresa Berganza, who died on Friday at the age of 87.

    Now I turn on my computer this morning to learn that she has been joined by the organist Simon Preston. He too died on Friday at the age of 83.

    Both were prominent artists, well documented on major record labels at a time when the industry was still going strong.

    Distressing reminders of change and the passage of time. Thanks to them both, and may they rest in peace.


    Berganza as Carmen

    In recital with her husband, Felix Lavilla

    Lavilla’s “Lullaby”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JUnx2QD6Vk

    Preston plays Bach’s “Fugue a la gigue”

    Poulenc

    Widor’s Toccata

  • Peter Hurford Organist Remembered

    Peter Hurford Organist Remembered

    The organist Peter Hurford has died. His Bach, Poulenc, and Saint-Saëns recordings have long been a part of my life. Stop with the deaths of the musical giants already!

    https://www.gramophone.co.uk/classical-music-news/the-organist-and-choirmaster-peter-hurford-has-died

    PHOTO: Hurford, so young, so dapper, at the console with his wife, Patricia, in 1955

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