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Greg Harrold, Los Angeles, California, has built a new 24-stop organ for the Kay/MacBird residence in Brentwood, California. This organ, the builder'...
Taylor & Boody Organbuilders, Inc., of Staunton, VA, has built a new organ, the firm's opus 24, for Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, in...
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Buzard Pipe Organ Builders, Champaign, Illinois, Opus 25
Holy Family Catholic Church, Rockford, Illinois
It has been a high honor to build this...
First Baptist Church, Ocala, Florida
The Wicks Organ Co., Highland, Illinois, Opus 6382
In 1992, First Baptist Church of Ocala,...
For the first time in Ann Arbor, the complete organ works of François Couperin (1668–1733) were performed on two evenings by students...
Leaving notes out
Last month I wrote about using altered rhythm as a practice technique. This month I am writing about another way of...
The power of teachers
My wife Wendy’s daughter Meg is a vibrant young woman who inherited an intense sense of curiosity from her mother....
Ronald Cameron Bishop, Jr., age 74, of Westfield, New York, died April 14 at St. Vincent Health Center in Erie, Pennsylvania. He was...
A. E. Schlueter Pipe Organ
Company, Lithonia, Georgia
Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church, Atlanta, Georgia
The...
As part of the Organ Historical Society’s 57th national convention in metropolitan Chicago (to take place July 8–13,...
The Richmond Chapter of the AGO gathered on the morning of November 19, 2011 to observe the centennial of a Kimball organ of three manuals and 29...
Wilma Jensen is heralded as an outstanding recitalist, church musician, and teacher. Her extensive concert career has taken her throughout the...
Monday, January 9
The 29th Conference of Roman Catholic Cathedral Musicians took place January 9–12 at St. Joseph Cathedral in Columbus,...
The Keweenaw (the Copper Country) of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula has seen a change in their functioning pipe organs. Since the catalog of the...
Additional practice techniques
This month and next month I will discuss a number of practice techniques that involve changing something in the...
Who do we think we are?
I was a few weeks shy of my sixteenth birthday in February 1972 when my wisdom teeth were taken out. I don...
János Sebestyén (1931-2012)
by Robert Tifft
There were many sides to János Sebestyén. Few people, even among his...
Sally Cherrington Beggs, chair of the music department and college organist at Newberry College, Newberry, South Carolina, died March 17. Born in...
Foley-Baker, Inc.,
Tolland, Connecticut
Duke University Chapel,
Durham, North Carolina
The 1932 Aeolian at Duke...
A musical village on the edge of a metropolis
From 1920–1940, the organists at churches in Oak Park, Illinois distinguished...
