New pipe organ debut to be given tomorrow
Kansan photo by Halina Pawl
KU's new $150,000 pipe organ will make its public debut tomorrow night in a recital given by Asst. Prof. James Moeser, chairman of the department of organ and designer of the instrument.
The organ was built and installed in Swarthout Recital Hall by the Reuter Organ Company of Lawrence. The maze of pipes is located behind a protective screen backstage.
Commenting on the structure of the organ, Homer A. Frank of the Reuter Organ Company described the largest pipe, the low C, as about forty feet long and as big around as a telephone pole.
The 55 stops and 4,212 speaking pipes give the organ sufficient size and scope to play with accuracy organ compositions of various periods and national styles.
Thomas Gorton, Dean of the School of Fine Arts, said the console can be rolled onto the stage when in use, and into a locked room at other times.
Moeser, a graduate of the University of Texas, earned a doctorate degree from the University of Michigan, and has been at KU since 1966. As a Fulbright scholar, the University organist studied at the Hochschule fur Musik in Berlin, Germany.
"Three years ago, I had heard of the possibility of getting such an organ at KU," he explained. "This was a primary reason for my coming here. I probably wouldn't have another chance to manage the installation of an organ of this magnitude."
Other inaugural recitals by guest organists will be: Feb. 16, 3:30 p.m.-Jerald Hamilton, professor of music at the University of Illinois and KU alumnus.
Feb. 26, 8 p.m.-Piet Kee,
Dutch concert and church
organist who has performed
throughout Europe and
America.
Mar. 9, 3:30 p.m.-Joan Lippincott, chairman of the organ department at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, N.J.
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