November 2022
The Marcussen organ in Wiedemann Hall—The vision realized
In 1956, Walter J. Duerksen, dean of the College of Fine Arts, and Gordon B. Terwilliger, graduate coordinator for the School of Music at the then University of Wichita, envisioned…
The twenty-two-rank electro-pneumatic-action pipe organ designed and built by the Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co. of Boston, Massachusetts, for the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City and installed there in 1966 was taken out for a long-…
This interview took place February 19, 2022, at the Blue Palmetto Café on the campus of Bok Tower Gardens, Lake Wales, Florida. Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra was studying with Geert D’hollander and playing four concerts at Bok Tower during the…
On December 1, 1909, Siegfried Emanuel Gruenstein published the first issue of The Diapason in Chicago, Illinois. That seminal publication totaled eight pages, but it was the historic start to one of the world’s oldest continually…
Climate change
The earth’s climate is one of today’s most prevalent hot-button issues. Glaciers are melting, sea levels are rising, and forests are burning. We are experiencing floods where it is usually dry, and droughts where it is…
Playing slowly
I ended last month’s column with an anecdote that I suggested would lead nicely into what I wanted to write about this month:
One day Gene Roan and I were walking along the corridor chatting when he stopped near a practice…
Delbert Disselhorst
Delbert Disselhorst, 81, of Iowa City, Iowa, died September 1. He was born November 3, 1940, in Keokuk, Iowa, and attended public schools in Hamilton, Illinois. He enrolled at the University of Illinois where he…
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