J.L. van den Heuvel (Church of the Holy Apostles, New York, NY), Bond Organ Builders, Inc. (St. Mary's Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Portland, OR), Berghaus Organ Company, Inc. (Trinity Lutheran Church, Faribault, MN), Temple Organs (West Hills Presbyterian Church, Omaha, NE)
Hugh Percival Henry Gough died at his home in New York City on April 14 at age 81. Born in
Heptonstall, Yorkshire, England, on 31 January 1916, Gough studied clavichord
with Arnold Dolmetsch before World War II and worked with the early instrument
pioneer as a volunteer apprentice on weekends.
Ellen Jane Lorenz Porter died last December 31, 1996, in Dayton, OH, after a short illness. She
was 89. Composer, teacher, editor and partner in Lorenz Publishing Company, she
was a graduate of Wellesley College and studied in Paris with Nadia Boulanger.
When she returned to Dayton, she worked at Lorenz until her retirement in 1967,
becoming an authority on handbell music and hymnology. After retiring she
earned her master's degree at Wittenberg University and, at age 71, was
awarded her Ph.D.
An organ built by J.L. van den Heuvel
style='font-weight:normal'>, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, has been installed at
the Church of the Holy Apostles, New York, NY. Originally installed at Castle
Shiloah, Fairview, TX, it was relocated by the Organ Clearing House, and
revoiced by Rosales Organ Builders. When a fire destroyed the Church of the
Holy Apostles in 1990, it also destoyed the church's Casavant organ. The parish
entered into an agreement with Rosales Organ Builders for a new instrument.
Earl Holt is a graduate of Elon College, the University of
Michigan, and Arizona State University, where he recently completed the D.M.A.
degree in organ performance with Robert Clark. Dr. Holt served on the music
faculty of San Jacinto College North in Houston from 1982-90, and is currently
a full-time Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Theory at ASU.
Herbert L. Huestis, Ph.D., is a graduate of the Eastman
School of Music, where he studied with David Craighead.
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> He is a pipe organ technician in
British Columbia and Washington State, where he specializes in restoring and
renovating vintage reed stops.
Charles S. Brown is a former organ faculty member at the
University of North Texas, Denton, and formerly organist/choirmaster at St.
John's Episcopal Church, Dallas. His first two plays with organ
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> music, Mon Cousin (music of Bach and
Walther) and Queen of Hearts (music of Bach, Handel, Haydn, and others), were
premiered in Dallas in March and November of 1996. One of his current
performance projects is Il Dottore's Magic Music Pipe and Puppet Show.
