Samuel Baron, flute
performer and teacher on the faculty at Yale, Mannes, Juilliard, and the State
University of New York at Stony Brook, and director of the Bach Aria Festival
and Institute, died on May 16, 1997. He was born in Brooklyn and studied violin
first, later switching to flute. He attended Juilliard and after graduation
reapplied as a conducting major.
Goulding & Wood, Inc., organbuilders of Indianapolis, Indiana, has built a new 2-manual,
38-rank organ (Opus 26) for St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Wilmington, North
Carolina. The action features G&W's exclusively designed electro-pneumatic
slider chests. The twin cases facing the chancel and twin cases facing the nave
are of red oak. Facade pipes utilizing the Pedal 16' Principal and Great 8'
Principal are tinted pale gold with natural burnished mouths.
In the spring of 1854 the Massachusetts legislature
chartered the New England Emigrant Aid Company, whose mission was to promote
the settlement of Kansas by people who opposed slavery. Among the towns founded
under its direction was Lawrence, and it was there that the University of
Kansas was established. Central to its lovely campus, located on Mount Oread,
is the World War II Memorial Campanile with its carillon.
Betsy Overton is a member of the Liturgical Commission,
Diocese of East Carolina and is
Choirmaster, St. Thomas' Episcopal Church, Ahoskie,
North Carolina.
Jan Overduin is Professor of Music at Wilfrid Laurier
University in Waterloo, Ontario, where he teaches organ and church music. He
began studies in The Netherlands, where he was born, and continued in Canada at
the University of Western Ontario, where he received the Masters degree in
performance. The list of his teachers includes Marie-Claire Alain, Peter
Hurford, and Jean Langlais. He has directed many choirs including the Wilfrid
Laurier University Choir and Chapel Choir, the Niagara Chamber Choir (which he
founded), the Menno Singers, the Mennonite Mass Choir.
Mickey Thomas Terry, a native of Greenville, North Carolina, holds degrees from East Carolina University in Greenville, and a Ph.D. in Late Medieval and Early Modern European History from Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Dr. Terry's principal organ teachers have been Clarence Watters, Charles Callahan, and Ronald Stolk (Improvisation). He is currently the organist and minister of music of St. Rita's Catholic Church in Alexandria, Virginia. Dr. Terry has concertized throughout the United States and has been broadcast several times on Pipedreams. Dr.
