June 2005

M. L. Bigelow & Co., Inc., Organ Builders, American Fork, Utah: Opus 31, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago; Hermes Pipe Organs, LaValle, Wisconsin: St. Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Church, Cazenovia, Wisconsin

Cornel Zimmer Organ Builders, Denver, North Carolina: Aldersgate United Methodist Church, Wilmington, Delaware

Marilyn Mason celebrates her 80th birthday on June 29.

Charles McManis died December 3, 2004, in South Burlington,
Vermont, at the age of 91. See the “Nunc Dimittis” in the February
issue of The Diapason (p. 10). This article is offered in memoriam.

Musical research came to vibrant life in a Friday evening interactive program presented by the Southeastern and Midwestern Historical Keyboard Societies at Stetson University's Elizabeth Hall in DeLand, Florida, March 3-5, 2005.

For over two centuries, St. Catherine’s, one of the
five principal churches of Hamburg built in 1250, had an organ historically
associated with Scheidemann, Reincken and J. S. Bach. Until its destruction in
1943 during World War II, it was among the foremost instruments in northern
Europe.

It’s happening. The new organ arrives next week.

The monumental Laura Spelman Rockefeller Carillon in New York City 's Riverside Church once again has undergone a major transformation.

Dexter Bailey, Gustav Bittrich, George A. Foster