Categories | Professional magazine |
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Circulation | 5,000 |
Founded | 1909 |
Company | Scranton Gillette Communications |
Country | United States |
Based in | Arlington Heights, Illinois |
Language | English |
Website | www |
ISSN | 0012-2378 |
The Diapason is a magazine serving those who build and play organs. [1] Content includes concert and recital announcements, information on building and maintaining organs and profiles of notable organists.
As of July 2013, The Diapason reaches about 5,000 subscribers. [2] Until December 1967, it billed itself as the official journal of the American Guild of Organists and the Royal Canadian College of Organists.
The magazine was founded in 1909 by Siegfried E. Gruenstein, who also served as its first editor. [3] [4] [5] Its first publication date was December 1, 1909. [3] It is currently owned and published by Scranton Gillette Communications.
The American Guild of Organists (AGO) is an international organization of academic, church, and concert organists in the US, headquartered in New York City with its administrative offices in the Interchurch Center. Founded as a professional educational association, it was chartered by the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York in 1896, with the authority to grant certificates of associate or fellow to members who passed examinations.
Dudley Buck was an American composer, organist, and writer on music. He published several books, most notably the Dictionary of Musical Terms and Influence of the Organ in History, which was published in New York City in 1882.
Masaaki Suzuki is a Japanese organist, harpsichordist and conductor, and the founder and music director of the Bach Collegium Japan. With this ensemble he is recording the complete choral works of Johann Sebastian Bach for the Swedish label BIS Records, for which he is also recording Bach's concertos, orchestral suites, and solo works for harpsichord and organ. He is also an artist-in-residence at Yale University and the principal guest conductor of its Schola Cantorum, and has conducted orchestras and choruses around the world.
St Mary Moorfields is a Roman Catholic church in Eldon Street near Moorgate, on a site previously known as Moorfields. It is the only Catholic church in the City of London. Prior to a 1994 boundary change, the church was in the Borough of Hackney, such that there were no Catholic churches in the City.
WQPX-TV is a television station licensed to Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States, broadcasting the Ion Television network to Northeastern Pennsylvania. Owned and operated by the Ion Media subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company, the station has offices on Lackawanna Avenue in downtown Scranton, and its transmitter is located on Bald Mountain, northwest of Scranton and I-476.
Pro BuilderMedia is a business-to-business media entity that includes a nationally distributed trade publication, website, social media channels, and events. It provides award-winning, timely, and topical content to more than 300,000 builders, contractors, and design professionals serving the U.S. housing and light-construction industries. It is the official media partner of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), based in Washington, D.C.
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Paul Smith Callaway, was a prominent American organist and choral conductor, particularly well known for his thirty-eight years at the Washington National Cathedral, Washington, D.C., between 1939–1977. A friend of Leonard Bernstein and Ned Rorem, he was also active in opera and a frequent guest conductor of the Lake George Opera Company and was the founding musical director of the Opera Society of Washington in 1956, now the renowned Washington National Opera. By the time of his death in 1995, he was acclaimed for his great influence on the musical life of the nation's capital. In 1977, Callaway was appointed an Honorary Officer of The Order of the British Empire (OBE) and invested by Ambassador Peter Jay on behalf of Queen Elizabeth II.
William Whitehead is an English concert organist. Born in Billericay at St Andrew's Centre Hospital, Essex. His father was the late Dr Peter Whitehead, a Pathologist at Billericay. William was trained through the Oxbridge and Cathedral route. One of his recordings, Dances of Life and Death was awarded a Diapason Découverte in Diapason Magazine. He is currently Associate Organist of Lincoln's Inn in London. He is curator of the Orgelbüchlein Project, an international collaboration to complete Bach's Little Organ Book. He teaches organ scholars at both Oxford and Cambridge Universities.
Ludwig Busbetzky was an Estonian organist and composer during the 17th century. Coming from a family of musicians, Busbetzky studied with Dieterich Buxtehude in Lübeck around 1680.
Wilhelm Carl Friedrich Sauer was a German pipe organ builder. One of the famous organ builders of the Romantic period, Sauer and his company W. Sauer Orgelbau built over 1,100 organs during his lifetime, amongst them the organs at Bremen Cathedral, Leipzig's St. Thomas Church, and Berlin Cathedral, which is considered to be "his final great masterpiece".
Roads & Bridges magazine is a 107-year-old trade publication serving construction and maintenance professionals, as well as heavy equipment manufacturers. The magazine was created by Scranton Gillette Communications in 1906. It provides industry news, information on relevant equipment and safety recommendations and has been cited in studies of American infrastructure. Roads & Bridges works with associations such as AASHTO, AEM, ESWP and Artba. Content is distributed through print, online, live events, custom media and webinars.
Imaging Technology News (ITN) is a business-to-business trade publication that serves healthcare professionals in the fields of radiology, radiation oncology, women’s health and nuclear medicine. ITN's print, website and digital media cover improvements and trends in medical imaging and radiation oncology technology.
Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology is a trade magazine catering to cardiologists and cath labs.
Scranton Gillette Communications, Inc. is a business-to-business communications company founded in 1905. Originally, the company was established to serve the transportation construction industry, and the publication Roads & Bridges, started in 1906, continues to be published today. Currently, 20 regular publications are produced by Scranton Gillette. These cover building and construction, healthcare, horticulture, the water industry, infrastructure, home furnishings and music.
Émile André Poillot was a French pianist, organist, and pedagogue.
Clarence Dickinson was an American composer and organist.
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Helen Searles Westbrook was an American composer and organist.