February 1996
When Martin Neary succeeded Simon Preston as Westminster Abbey's Organist and Master of the Choristers in 1988, a distinguished career reached its logical (if dizzying) pinnacle. From his early years as a boy chorister at the Chapel Royal…
Taylor & Boody Organbuilders, Inc., of Staunton, VA, has built a new organ, the firm's opus 24, for Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, in Staunton. The two-manual organ comprises 24 stops and 1,420 pipes with space prepared on the…
Part 1 was published in the January, 1996 issue of The Diapason.
es ist genug... by Sten Hanson
Background
Sten Hanson, born in 1936 in Klövsjö, Sweden, has been chairman of the Society of Swedish Composers since 1984. Although self-taught…
Profile: Germantown, PA
In Philadelphia's historic Germantown on Germantown Avenue at High Street stands the First United Methodist Church of Germantown. In the tower hangs the 50-bell Shelmerdine Memorial Carillon.
The Shelmerdines were…
The fifth annual Conference of the Brazilian Association of Organists and Organ Builders coincided with the third annual Latin-American Conference of Organists and Organ Builders in Porto Alegre, Brazil, from September 6-10, 1995. The…
Organ restoration topics were featured prominently at the 1995 AIO convention in San Jose. Monday's lectures included Jonathan Ambrosino's overview of Bay Area organbuilding and Edward Millington Stout's video presentation of his 1886…
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