Prof. Cleveland Johnson's Orphei Organi Antiqui: Essays in Honor of Harald Vogel is Published

July 7, 2006

July 7, 2006, Greencastle, Ind. - Orphei Organi Antiqui: Essays in Honor of Harald Vogel, edited by Cleveland Johnson, professor and interim dean of the DePauw University School of Music, has just been published by the Westfield Center for Keyboard Studies. The title, which translates to "for the Orpheus of the Historic Organ," celebrates the multifaceted career and visionary endeavors of Harald Vogel, a pioneering authority on German keyboard performance of the eighteenth-century and earlier. As one of Vogel's early students, Professor Johnson conceived and edited this project and presented it to the dedicatee in a formal ceremony on June 7 beneath the rotunda of the provincial capitol building in Victoria, British Columbia as part of the annual conference of the Westfield Center.

Since 1994, Harald Vogel has held a professorship at the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen where he continues a distinguished career of teaching and research reaching back more than thirty years. His Norddeutsche Orgelakademie, founded in 1972, has facilitated the research and exploration of historic keyboard instruments by international performers and scholars. As superintendent of church music and organ adviser for the Reformed Church in Northwest Germany, and as an organ consultant worldwide, he has been pivotal in many landmark restorations of historic organs and in the building of new instruments inspired by historic examples. These instruments are documented in his many recordings, most recently on the Organeum and Gothic labels, and his earlier Radio Bremen recordings (1961–75) remain some of the most important sound documents of their kind.

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