The centennial celebration for Lake Delaware Boys Camp continues, even as the camp tents are packed away and the camp grounds are surely covered in snow and ice.
The camp's organ, an 1886 Roosevelt is featured on this week's Pipedream's broadcast.
Michael Kleinschmidt, the organist of Trinity Church, Boston, plays works by Horatio Parker and Jean Langlais.
Labels: Horation Parker, Langlais, LDBC
On Boys' Camp in the Catskills
Did I ever tell you that I was music director for 50 years at a boys' camp in the Catskills, with an organ that was pumped by the boys? It was a large pipe organ, not just a little harmonium. The camp was a very odd combination of high-church Episcopalianism and the military, with drills and all that sort of thing. The children actually got very good training that way. I had been music director of that camp before the way, and as soon as I was released from service, I went back for the two summer months of 1946, and then I checked in at Harvard and I got my degree in May 1947 -- a master's degree in music. The same month I also successfully passed the [American Guild of Organists] examination to become [a Fellow of the American Guild of Organists].
Higgins, Kathryn A. "Interviews with Charles Dodsley Walker." The American Organist October 2009, p. 62.
Previously: NYT - Lake Delaware Boys' Camp in
Walker as dedicatee: Langlais's "Postlude III" from his Four Postludes is dedicated to Charles Dodsley Walker. I'm sure he had other pieces dedicated to him as well.
Labels: Charles Dodsley Walker, Langlais, LDBC
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