Countdown to Planyavsky at MIT (9 days)

Today I was browsing the Holtkamp opus list and see what other instruments were built just before and just after the two MIT instruments. I was amazed at just how MANY instruments the firm built in that three- or four-year period. I was equally amazed, in a more melancholic way, how few of these instruments are still in existence ...

Opus Year Location (manuals-stops)

1701 1958 Christ Church Grosse Pointe, MI (IV-50)

1700 1957 Trinity Lutheran Church Moorhead MN (III-36)

1699 1958 University of California Berkeley CA (III-43)

1698 1956 Syracuse University Practice Organ Syracuse NY (II-4)

1697 1957 Church of the Cross Millwaukee WI (II-12)*

1696 1957 Immanuel Lutheran Church DesPlaines IL

1695 1957 Christ Church Cincinnati OH (IV-53)

1694 1957 Shorter College Rome GA (III-27)

1693 1956 Church of the good Shepherd Palos Heights IL (I-6)

1692 1956 Corpus Christi Catholic Church New York NY (III-23)

1691 1956 Kent School Kent CT

1690 1957 Lutheran Church of the Reformation Affton MO (I-6)

1689 1956 Episcopal Theological School Cambridge MA (III-32)

1688 1956 Chapel of the Cross San Fernando CA (I-6)

1687 1956 University Christian Church DesMoines IA (II-26)

1686 1956 Lutheran Church of the Resurrection Yandley PA (I-6)

1685 1955 University of Alabama - Practice Organ Tuscaloosa AL (I-4)

1684 1956 William Scheide Residence Princeton NJ (II-12)

1683 1955 Pilgrim Lutheran Church Marysville MI (I-6)

1682 1955 Northwestern University - Practice Organ Evanston IL (I-4)

1681 1956 Collingwood Presbyterian Church Toledo OH (III-43)

1680 1956 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Auditorium Cambridge MA (III-43)

1679 1955 Lutheran Church of the Ascension Birmingham MI (I-7)

1678 1954 Hope Lutheran Church Park Forest IL (I-6)

1677 1955 Wellesley College - Positiv Wellesley MA (I-3)

1676 1955 St. Stephens Episcopal Church Goldsboro NC (II-17)

1675 1955 St. Charles Catholic Church Parma OH (III-33)

1674 1955 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Chapel Cambridge MA (II-12)

1673 1957 Maryville College Chapel Maryville KY

1672 1954 St. Andrew's School Middleton DE (II-12)

1671 1954 Trinity Lutheran Church Houston TX (III-33)

1670 1954 Trinity Lutheran Church Grand Island NE (III-19)

1669 1954 Epsworth Euclid Methodist Church Cleveland OH (IV-60)

(Data collected from http://www.holtkamporgan.com/Chart/Default.aspx )

Photo: University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa (Holtkamp Op. 1685). Photo from the OHS Database. Note that the organ is II-12, even though it is listed as I-4 on the Holtkamp website.

* = This should read Chapel of the Cross, not Church of the Cross. It was installed as a I-8 but later enlarged to full size (II-15). Many thanks to David Bohn for bringing this error to my attention.