From the builder
John-Paul Buzard Pipe Organ Builders, Champaign, Illinois,
has built a new organ for St. George's Episcopal Church, Belleville, Illinois.
The firm's opus 19 comprises 26 stops, 32 ranks on two manuals and pedal in a
free-standing white oak case.
Iowa State University and University Carillonneur Tin-shi
Tam will host the 57th Congress of The Guild of Carillonneurs in North America from Wednesday, June 16 through Saturday, June 19. The congress will be part of the celebration of the
centennial anniversary of the Bells of Iowa State.
Gordon W. Brooks
died on January 20 in Warren, Ohio, at the age of 82. He was born on February
22, 1916 in Mineral Ridge, Ohio, attended Niles McKinley High School, and
earned the BA in organ from YSU Dana School of Music. He was a piano and organ
teacher for many years and was organist at Indianola Methodist Church in
Youngstown; organist at several Lutheran churches in the Youngstown and Niles
area; music director at First Presbyterian Church in Warren for 14 years; and
organist at Robert H.
Here is an attempt to outline the 80-year life of Professor Heinz Wunderlich, who will enter the decade of octogenarian on April 15, 1999. Professor Wunderlich is a concert organist extraordinaire, has recorded more than once the entire organ works of Bach and Reger, is known as a composer of organ and choral music, is a superb teacher, and is loved and honored as husband, father, and grandfather.
Fifty-two registrants from 21 states gathered in sun-soaked
Lincoln, Nebraska for the 21st annual University of Nebraska-Lincoln Organ
Conference held September 17-19, 1998. The title of the conference was
"Perspectives on Recent and Future American Organbuilding," with five
organbuilders invited to give lectures: Gene Bedient, John Brombaugh, Steven
Dieck of C.B. Fisk, Manuel Rosales, and George Taylor.
The Variations on a Recitative, op. 40, is Arnold Schoenberg’s final and most extensive keyboard work, and his only completed work for organ. It was published by the H. W. Gray Co. in 1947, after six years of quarrelsome negotiations.
