May 2001

Noack Organ Company, Inc., Georgetown, Massachusetts:
St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity of the University of St. Thomas,
St. Paul, Minnesota

Schoenstein & Co., San Francisco, CA, St. John's Lutheran Church, American Falls, ID;
Wahl Organbuilders, Appleton, Wisconsin,Parish of Christ the King, Washington, DC;
Martin Ott Pipe Organ Company, St. Louis, Missouri, Sumner Presbyterian Church, Sumner, MS

Status Report on London's Handel House Museum

Director Jacqueline Riding reports in the latest Museum
Newsletter that the interiors of both numbers 25 and 23 Brook Street have been
transformed. Ceilings have been plastered on both the first and second floors
of number 25. Panelling, based on profiles from the adjoining houses, is almost
complete in the bedroom and parlor. Floorboards have been laid on the first
floor.

Roger Beebe Arnold,
of Omaha, Nebraska, died on February 10. Born in Willimantic, Connecticut, Mr.
Arnold began piano lessons at the age of nine, and decided, in his teens, to
make his life's work that of a church organist. After serving as a
chaplain's assistant in the Navy during World War II, he pursued his
Bachelor's studies at Yale University, where his organ teacher was Luther
Noss.

Part 1 of this article was published in the April, 2001,
issue of The Diapason.

The University of Michigan School of Music presented its
40th annual Conference on Organ Music, October 15-18, 2000, an international
event featuring music of Germany, France, and Russia. The conference was
directed by Marilyn Mason, chairman of the Organ Department.

A manner of performance depends upon at least one of three
possible means for its continuation. First, the originator of the performance tradition leaves to posterity an edited or annotated edition of the musical work in question.