Memorial Church Gets a New Set of Pipes
Peeking through the open doors of Memorial Church this summer will see neat stacks of lumber and many, many pipes. They won’t see churchgoers; instead, they may hear a hustle and bustle in the rear gallery—the installation of the church’s newest organ, Fisk Opus 139.The Opus 139 is the larger of two organs replacing the old Fisk Opus 46, which has served Memorial Church since 1967 but never quite fit the space musically. (The numerals connote the number of organs the company has produced.) Opus 46 had to perform double duty, accompanying the choir for small daily services in Appleton Chapel and filling the main sanctuary for larger services. “The instrument was compromised in both settings—too loud for the chapel and too small for the main sanctuary,” says Edward Jones, Harvard’s Gund University organist and choirmaster. When Jones arrived in 2003, he and then Pusey minister Peter J. Gomes began discussing solutions to the musical problem, eventually settling on two organs. The smaller organ, a refurbished 1929 instrument constructed by the famous organ maker E.M. Skinner, was installed in Appleton Chapel and unveiled last November. Opus 139, with three manuals and 53 stops, will fill the larger sanctuary with its swelling sounds.
Pieces of Opus 139 are arriving by truck from organ company C.B. Fisk’s shop in Gloucester, Massachusetts. On June 20, congregation members gathered to greet the first of five truckloads with a hymn. Sunday services are canceled for the summer; the installation will be completed by fall, but the vast project of “voicing” or tuning the organ’s more than 3,000 pipes, will take several months more. The instrument’s debut is planned for Easter Sunday, 2012.
For no other instrument are music and architecture so intimately entwined, says Christian Lane, assistant University organist and choirmaster. The acoustics of the church must be taken into account when designing the organ: “Half the instrument is the space it’s in,” says Lane. Conversely, the organ’s sheer size makes its placement and design integral features of the church architecture. Removing the old Opus 46 restored a view of the east-facing Palladian windows, bathing Appleton Chapel in morning light. (The pipes of the smaller Skinner organ now sit behind the screened walls of the chapel.) Opus 139 is being built in the rear gallery, where Charles Brenton Fisk ’50, designer of the original Opus 46, wanted his organ to be placed.
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