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Dialogue: Bach, Buxtehude, Kathryn Cok, harpsichord. DMP Records, DVH 140431, 2022, €15. Available from dmp-records.nl.

Father Cyprian Constantine, O.S.B.

The American Organ Academy, Hartville, Ohio, announces it schedule of seminars for 2024: 
January 19–20, 2024, Electricity in the Pipe Organ; 
April 18–20, Organ Releathering; 
June 21–22, Pipe Organ Voicing; 
July 25–27, Pipe Organ Business Management; 
and September 20–21; Pipe Organ Tuning. 

The Guild of Carillonneurs in North America is accepting applications for its 2024 Robert Barnes Memorial Grant. 

The fund seeks to promote the growth and vitality of the North American carillon culture by encouraging study in carillon performance, composition, music history, or instrument design. Grants of up to $14,478 are available. Membership in the guild is not required. 

Dr. J. Butz Musikverlag announces its Orgelkalender Deutschland 2024 (978-3-928412-85-8, €9.90), featuring the photography of Andreas Rother, Otmar Britz, Archiv Klais, Franz Wiebelt, and Jenny Setchell. 

For information: butz-verlag.de. 

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Brian E. Jones, 80, organist and choir director, died November 17, 2023. A native of Duxbury, Massachusetts, he began piano studies at age eight and discovered the pipe organ soon thereafter. During his first visit to Trinity Church, Copley Square, Boston, Massachusetts, as an eager 10-year-old, he was said to have exclaimed, “I want to be the organist here someday!” Some three decades later, his dream became a reality. 

Raven announced a new CD recording. Resonance & Resilience: Dresden (OAR-183) spotlights Mark Steinbach, Brown University organist, performing on the 1755 Gottfried Silbermann organ of the Hofkirche, Dresden, Germany. 

The program includes six works by Bach and pieces by Buxtehude, Anton Heiller, Olivier Messiaen, as well as first recordings of works composed by Brown University colleagues Wang Lu and Eric Nathan. 

For information: ravencd.com. 

Saint John’s Abbey Organ Builders, Collegeville, Minnesota, began operations in October 2023 as a continuation of Pasi Organ Builders, occupying a new 30,000-square-foot Abbey Woodshop along with Saint John’s Abbey Woodworking and Abbey Artisans. Under the artistic leadership of Martin Pasi, Abbey Organ Builders will be a fully functioning training workshop, building and maintaining organs with an eye toward cultivating future generations of organbuilders and technicians formed in traditional handcrafts.