Remembering César Franck's Organ Class at the Paris Conservatory: His Impassioned Quest for Artistic Beauty Part 1
Carolyn Shuster Fournier discusses César Franck's organ pedagogy.
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Carolyn Shuster Fournier discusses César Franck's organ pedagogy.
Boston Festival Orchestra brought exuberant, Debussy, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky to Jordan Hall yesterday.
Editor’s note: the first part of this series appeared in the February 2022 issue of The Diapason, pages 12–17.
Introduction During their seventy-plus-year history it was customary for organs built by the Skinner Organ Company and the Aeolian-Skinner Organ Company to contain an ivory nameplate bearing the firm’s name on the console, usually on the keyslip, although there was a brief period in the early 1960s when the company name was stenciled in gold letters in a way similar to that on pianos. Astute aficionados can sometimes even determine the era in which the organ was built by carefully examining the subtle differences in type styles that were used over the years.
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