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Technical support: real assistance or smoke and mirrors?
There are lots of jokes about technical support, especially
in the world of computers and...
Travelogue, Part II
This second installment of my travel journal begins in Peer,
Belgium, where I left off in last month's column.
On Monday morning...
Elizabeth Birkshire Brothers Sherman, age 91, of Little Rock, Arkansas, died on July 21. She was a longtime active member of the Central Arkansas AGO...
Quimby Pipe Organs, Inc.,
Warrensburg, Missouri
SkyRose Chapel, Rose Hills
Memorial Park, Whittier, California
Opus 46
SkyRose Chapel, in the...
Since 1985, the Summer Institute for French Organ Studies
(SIFOS) has given American organists a unique opportunity to play and study
historic French...
Schoenstein & Co. is the oldest and largest organ factory in the Western states. The Schoenstein family has been building instruments for five...
Robert Noehren died on August 4 in San Diego, California, at
the age of 91. (See "Nunc Dimittis," The Diapason, September 2002, p.
8.) International...
Articles, Reports, and Reviews
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subject
Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival/USA. See Spicer.
American Cathedral in Paris...
A Bach makes news
All Charges Dropped Against Singer Who Threatened Murder
My eyes were drawn to a news item from the Associated Press:
"charges...
Fred Haley died suddenly at the age of 67 on September 14, 2002, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. An organist since age 15, he received his musical...
Marilyn Mason led the University of Michigan’s Historic Tour 46 of Italy and Austria from May 8–21, 2002. The cuisine was especially...
Knowledge
In order to acquire knowledge about John Bull’s work,
it is important to know a little bit about what knowledge actually meant at the...
On June 9, 2002, John Walker delivered the keynote address at the gala Open House at the Reuter Organ Company, Lawrence, Kansas. The following...
Wednesday, June 12
Acoustics dominated the discussion with David Pike of C.B. Fisk and acoustician Dana Kirkegaard, who has made modifications to the...
The 52nd annual Sewanee Church Music Conference was held July 15-21 at DuBose Conference Center in Mont-eagle, Tennessee and at the University of the...
John-Paul Buzard Pipe Organ Builders, Champaign, Illinois, Opus 27
St. David's Episcopal Church,
Glenview, Illinois
From the builder
This instrument...
Gerald Albert Bales died on July 4 at University Hospital, London, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 83 after a heart attack. Born in Toronto in 1919,...
Making a crescendo with the least number of stops
Perhaps there is no more obvious a signature item on
factory-built organs than the ubiquitous...
Mr. Walker studied as an undergraduate at Trinity College, Hartford, with the great Dupré student Clarence Watters. Being thus indoctrinated and...
Small liberal arts college teaching is an area rich in challenges and creative possibilities. Having taught in the field for the past 34 years has...
