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“There is nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right
notes at the right time, and the instrument plays itself....
Karen McFarlane has announced her retirement from
twenty-four years of active concert management, effective January 1 of this
coming year. Karen...
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Steven Cook, Edmonds, WA
Our Saviour's Lutheran
Church, Bremerton, WA
From the consultant:
A new, encased mechanical action organ, by builder...
Northwest Spaces
Physical, metaphysical, mental and spiritual; Concerts
expand one's perceptions and test prejudices
A random survey around the...
In the world of music at large the organ is often considered
an outcast, a curiosity, or at best an antique. One reason is that much of the
organ...
On February 2, 2000, the life of a great Christian organist
came to an end. Esma Beth Clark, 74 years old, died after a prolonged struggle
with...
The Reuter Organ Company, Lawrence, Kansas, has built a new
organ for University Presbyterian Church in Seattle, Washington. Opus 2196 is a
large...
Paul Pettinga,
longtime professor of music at the University of Illinois, died one year ago,
on October 28, 1999, in Urbana, Illinois, at the age of...
This article is coming to you from the Isle of Man, an
island some 30 miles long by about 14 miles wide, and sitting midway between
Ireland and...
Perhaps it is a good idea to state right away that there are
several goals which may be served by a report on the AGO 2000 convention in
Seattle,...
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Patrick J. Murphy & Associates, Inc., Stowe,
Pennsylvania, has completed the restoration of the 1869 E.&G.G. Hook Opus
505. At the...
Alan Hovhaness died
on June 21 in Seattle, Washington, at the age of 89. A prolific composer who
embraced melody in an atonal age and drew heavily on...
Introduction
The Kimball Company of Chicago was one of the foremost pipe
organ builders in America in the first three decades of the twentieth...
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A Tale of Two Organs
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One aspect of the first AGO national convention of the new
millennium was that critical reaction to...
On August 15, Sante Fe harpsichordist Virginia Mackie joins
the very exclusive club of centenarian harpsichordists; indeed, the only other
one known...
Leslie Spelman, of La
Jolla, California, died on May 28 at the age of 97. He taught at the University
of Redlands from 1937-1968 and was Director of...
What strikes one immediately in the north of Germany is the
uniformity of the style of architecture of the major churches. Throughout
Schleswig-...
The following deals with the most important debate in the
German Christian churches: the crisis within the church and the consequences of
that crisis...
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Martin Ott Pipe Organ Company, Inc., St. Louis, Missouri,
has completed two new organs for Mount Angel Abbey, St. Benedict, Oregon. The
firm's...
Carillon Repertory: Early carillon music
Little is known about the music that was manually performed
on the carillon prior to the 18th century....
