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Westwood United Methodist Church, Los Angeles,
California,
The Shaffer Memorial Organ.
Walsh & Tidwell, 2002-2003 (chancel
additions/gallery organ).
Schantz Organ Co., 1995-1996 (chancel organ).
Robert M. Turner Organbuilder, Inc., 2001-2003
(consoles).
Specification: Charles Shaffer and Burton K. Tidwell.
153 ranks, 84 digital voices, 237 registers, 21
percussions
In time for the third Spoleto Festival USA in 1979, a companion festival, Piccolo Spoleto, was organized in conjunction with the City of Charleston's Office of Cultural Affairs. In keeping with the founding of the Festival by Italian-American composer Gian Carlo Menotti, we named our 10 am organ series "L'Organo: The Organ in Recital." It is the only music series that has run through the entire 25 years of Piccolo Spoleto in its original form.
Interview with D. A. Flentrop (1910–2003)
Dirk Andries Flentrop, undoubtedly the best-known Dutch organ builder of the past century worldwide, died on 30 November 2003 at the age of 93. Flentrop occupied a key position in the development of the post-World War II “modern” organ.
First Congregational Church, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
On March 21 at 3 pm, Wolfgang Rübsam will play a recital commemorating the 80th anniversary of a recital by Marcel Dupré on the 1911 Casavant organ opus 469 (three manuals and 38 stops) at First Congregational Church, Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Mr. Rübsam will recreate the recital played by Marcel Dupré on March 15, 1924. The congregation recently completed the restoration of the sanctuary balcony, returning the original acoustics to the space.
The event took place on October 25, 2003, and was co-sponsored by the Olympia, Tacoma and Seattle chapters of the AGO in Washington State, and a large turnout represented all three cities.
The 24th International Organ and Church Music Institute, directed by Marilyn Mason and held on the University of Michigan campus June 23-25, 2003, was a time of summer friendship, fun, and fundamentals.
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Portland, Oregon
Portland's historic Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, where Catharine Crozier was Artist-in-Residence from 1992 until her death, was the site for a profoundly beautiful memorial service on January 26, 2004.
