After thirty-eight years of teaching at the University of Iowa, “That Professor from Iowa”1 decided that 2008 was the year to retire. To help Delbert Disselhorst celebrate this occasion, over 130 of his current students, alumni, colleagues and friends gathered in Iowa City on February 29 and March 1 for a weekend of festivities.
Perhaps now is the time to reconsider Clarence Dickinson, surely one of the most influential figures in American church music in the first half of the twentieth century. This pioneering musician, composer, arranger, author, educator, historian, and concert organist set the standard for generations of church musicians and organists.