The Laurance Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Pipe Organ (2006)

UNION CHURCH of POCANTICO HILLS
Tarrytown, New York
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UNION CHURCH was built on the Rockefeller family’s land adjacent to Kykuit, the family estate, and is most famous for its stained glass windows, also commissioned by this distinguished family of patrons of the arts. The nave windows constitute Marc Chagall’s only cycle of church windows in America, and the rose window is the last completed work of Henri Matisse, who finalized the design just two days before his death.

INSPIRED BY THE FAMILY'S affection for fin-de-siècle French culture, this stylistically focused instrument looks toward the orgues de salon of the era for its intense color in the context of a modern church organ.


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Dr. Gordon Turk, who presides over the famous Ocean Grove Auditorium organ, served as consultant.



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GRAND ORGUE
Manual II
Bourdon
Montre
Violoncelle
Flûte Harmonique
Bourdon
Prestant
Doublette
Fourniture II-IV
Trompette
Grand Orgue Muet

POSITIF
Manual I
Violoncelle
Flûte Harmonique
Cor de Nuit
Viole d'Amour
Flûte Douce
Clarinette
Cloches
Positif
Positif Muet
Positif
Positif au lieu du Grand-Orgue


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10-2/3'
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PÉDALE
Contrebasse
Sous Basse
Gros Nasard
Octave Basse
Violoncelle
Flûte
Quinzième
Flûte Ouverte
Flûte Bouchée
Bombarde
Clarinette-Basse
Trompette
Clarinette
Cloches



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RÉCIT EXPRESSIF
Manual III, enclosed
Viole de Gambe
Voix Céleste
Cor de Nuit
Prestant
Flûte Octaviante
Flûte Conique
Clarinette-Basse
Trompette
Basson-Hautbois
Voix Humaine
Tremblant (II & III)
Récit
Récit Muet
Récit