June 2004

Foley-Baker, Groton School, Groton, Mass.; Bedient, Dr. Peter Eklund Residence, Lincoln, Neb.; Berghaus, First Unitarian Society of Milwaukee, Wis.

For the past several years my wife Sylvie Poirier and I have had the pleasure of traveling extensively giving concerts of organ duets.

For Bronislaw Rutkowski, music in all its forms was the mission which he fulfilled throughout his life, in every dimension of time and space that he inhabited. His life’s work transcended the boundaries of one or
even two generations, but today, forty years after his death, the image of the professor is fading into history.

The Southeastern Historical Keyboard Society’s conclave was held March 11–13 at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Those interested in the early piano found a wealth of historical pianos in the G. Norman and Ruth G. Eddy Collection, and the University also boasts the Franz and Willemina de Hen Collection of Musical Instruments.

S. Drummond Wolff