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In 2001–2002 she performed a highly acclaimed series of eight Bach organ concerts on outstanding organs throughout New York City, called “Bach in the Big Apple”. A service of thanksgiving for her life will be held at 11:00 a.m. Bach: The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080, Joan Lippincott Amazon
About Timothy Judd
A native of Upstate New York, Timothy Judd has been a member of the Richmond Symphony violin section since 2001.
She has performed on many of the most prominent organs in churches and universities throughout the United States, including Yale, Harvard, Duke, Stanford, Columbia, Notre Dame, and Princeton. Upon graduation from Westminster Choir College, she gained entrance to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where she was again the student of Alexander McCurdy as well as Vladimir Sokoloff.
She was known for her lifelong mentoring of students as well as for her generous support of professional organizations, including the American Guild of Organists, the American Bach Society, and the Westfield Center for Historical Keyboard Studies.
To honor the memory of Joan Lippincott, the Westfield Center is establishing a fund to support research into historical keyboard performance practice.
Please consider a making a donation, indicating “Lippincott research fund” in the message box.
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Joan Lippincott, the American organist and esteemed teacher, passed away last Saturday, May 31 in Newtown, Pennsylvania. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.
At the same time, she was hired by McCurdy to join the keyboard faculty at Westminster, starting what would become her 37-year tenure.
On June 18, 1960, she married Curtis Lippincott in Bristol Chapel on the campus of Westminster Choir College. At the time she was head of the largest organ program in the world, and she taught hundreds of organists and church musicians.
As the work unfolds, Bach moves from double, triple, and mirror fugues to a quadruple fugue in an increasingly complex and technically varied exploration of contrapuntal possibilities. In 2013 the Organ Historical Society published a festschrift, Joan Lippincott: The Gift of Music, with Larry G. Biser editing contributions from students and colleagues.
Born Joan Edna Hult in Kearny, New Jersey, on December 25, 1935, she studied piano and organ from an early age. Here are a few of her recordings:
J.S. She also served as principal university organist at Princeton from 1993 to 2000. She eventually was a pupil of Alexander McCurdy at Westminster Choir College, Princeton, New Jersey, where she earned both bachelor’s and master’s degrees, and at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where she received the artist’s diploma.
Soon after, she realized that the demands of the Princeton position made it impossible for her to remain the Head of the Westminster Organ Department. Her first recording, released in 1980 on the Gothic label, was Toccatas and Fugues of J.S. Bach on the new Fisk organ at House of Hope Presbyterian Church in St. Paul, Minnesota.
The collection is made up of 14 fugues and four canons which develop from a single, sublimely simple musical subject. Rising over a mighty pedal tone, the opening depicts the first lines of the Biblical verses from Acts 2:
And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
He was a student of Anastasia Jempelis, one of the earliest champions of the Suzuki method in the United States.
A passionate teacher, Mr. Judd has maintained a private violin studio in the Richmond area since 2002 and has been active coaching chamber music and numerous youth orchestra sectionals.
In his free time, Timothy Judd enjoys working out with Richmond’s popular SEAL Team Physical Training program.View all posts by Timothy Judd | Website
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Bach, Joan Lippincott, The Art of Fugue
Contrapunctus I:
Contrapunctus XIV:
Recordings
- J.S.
She was a recitalist at the Alice Tully Hall Bach-Handel Tercentennial and she has performed at Bach Festivals in Arizona, California, Florida, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Oregon, and South Carolina.