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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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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....
A letter from Johann Sebastian Bach
TO: Professor Larry Palmer
Harpsichord Editor, The Diapason ...
William Ferris,
composer, conductor, and organist, died on May 16 in Chicago, Illinois, from a
massive heart attack. He was 63 years old.
Founder and...
St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Evanston, Illinois, has
recently completed a year-long celebration of the restoration of its E.M. Skinner
organ, Opus...
"English concert organist John Scott is recognized not
only as one of his country's finest organists and musical leaders, but
also as one of the most...
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Hellmuth Wolff et Associés, Ltée, of Laval,
Québec, Canada, recently completed an organ for the University of
Northern...
Earliest known harpsichord recording
The first publication of Wanda Landowska's 1908 Berlin
cylinder recordings forms the rarest track of the...
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Students of pipe organ economics and history are continually fascinated by the wide variety of non-mechanical windchest actions...
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Andover Organ Company, Methuen, Massachusetts, has completed
a new organ, Opus 111, for the University of North Carolina at Greensboro; 36...
Dwight J. Davis, 77, died on February 7 at his residence in
the Glen Park section of Gary, Indiana. Mr. Davis had served as Minister of
Music at the...
Over the years a number of fascinating articles have
appeared in The Diapason on the subject of organ reeds. Not withstanding a few
of my own, I...
