Publications

Book review: Anthony Hammond’s Pierre Cochereau: Organist of Notre-Dame, in Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society, vol. XXXX, 2014.

Essay: “Performance Practice for the Organ Music of Charles Tournemire” in Mystic Modern: The Music, Though, and Legacy of Charles Tournemire, ed. Jennifer Donelson and Stephen Schloesser, Richmond: Church Music Association of America, 2014.

Essay: “An Organist’s Journey with Franz Liszt,” in Liszt: A Chorus of Voices, published by Pendragon Press, Hillsdale, 2012.

Olivier Messiaen’s Lecture at Kyoto (translation of “Conférence de Kyoto”), Éditions Musicales Alphonse Leduc, Paris, France

Book review: Jean-Louis Florentz, l’œuvre d’orgue: Témoignages croisés by Marie-Louise Langlais in the January 2011 (vol. 44, no. 1) issue of The American Organist.

Westfield Center: The Eugene Conference,” report in the December 2010 (vol. 43, no. 12) issue of The American Organist.

“Organ Works of Olivier Messiaen: Works Before the War,”  review of book by Olivier Latry and Loïc Maillé, in the October 2009 (vol. 43, no. 10) issue of The American Organist.

“Appariation de l’Église Éternelle,” review of Paul Festa’s DVD, in the April 2009 (vol. 43, no. 4) issue of The American Organist.

“Messiaen Plays Messiaen,” The American Organist, November 2008 (vol. 42, no. 11); the promised supplement referred to endnote 10 about the compositions of the mixtures of the organ at l’Église de la Sainte Trinité, Paris is linked here: Messiaen Article Supplement (final revision)

“La Symphonie-Choral pour Orgue de Charles Tournemire: vers une explication de sa forme,” l’Orgue, no. 278-279, 2007

“Tournemire: L’Orgue Mystique Intégrale,” feature review of 12-CD set recorded by George Delvallée, The American Organist, August 2007 ( vol. 41, no. 8 )

“Organ Playing as Spiritual Discipline,” The American Organist, June 2007 (vol. 41, no. 6)

Review of two recordings of Olivier Messiaen’s improvisations, The American Organist, January 2005

Obituary of composer Jean-Louis Florentz, The American Organist, November 2004; The Diapason, October 2004

Review of Michel Bourcier’s CD of works of Jean-Louis Florentz, The American Organist, January 2004

Translation (from German) of Günther Lade’s “A Conversation with Olivier Messiaen,” The American Organist, July 2000

Edited translation (from German) of article by Guido Krawinkel, “The Klais Organbuilding Workshop of Bonn, Germany,” The American Organist, July 2001

“The Interpretation of the Organ Works of Charles Tournemire,” Hommage à Langlais, ed. Marilyn Mason, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan School of Music, 1996

Review of Index to l’Art du Facteur d’Orgues by L. G. Monette, Journal of American Organbuilding, March 1995

“Proposed Design for an Electronic Key Action,” translation (from French) of article by Dominique Fellot, The Diapason, February 1994

“The Organ at San Francisco Central SDA Church,” Music Ministry, 1989

“My Study with Jean Langlais of the Music of Charles Tournemire,” St. Paul Tournemire Symposium, St Paul. MN, July 1989

“The Organs of Olivier Messiaen,” series of four articles, The Diapason, December 1988-March 1989

Report on the 1988 Organ Historical Society Convention, The Diapason, November 1988

“Recollections of Edwin Fischer,” based on interviews with Joan Benson, Journal of the American Liszt Society, June 1987 (available online)

Articles on the history and restoration of the Cavaillé-Coll organ at Sacré-Cœur Basilica, Paris, France, The Diapason, March 1987, June 1988

“Conférence de Notre-Dame,” translation (from French) of lecture by Olivier Messiaen, The Diapason, January 1985; republished in: Almut Rößler, Contributions to the Spiritual World of Olivier Messiaen, Gilles & Francke, Duisburg, 1986; revised version published by Éditions Alphonse Leduc, Paris, 2000

“On a Successful Organ in a Dry Acoustic,” The Diapason, January 1984