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October 2021

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Cover Feature: Quimby Pipe Organs, First United Methodist, Athens, GA

Quimby Pipe Organs, Inc., Warrensburg, Missouri; First United Methodist Church, Athens, Georgia

First United Methodist Church of Athens, Georgia, is home to the newest instrument by Quimby Pipe Organs, Inc., of Warrensburg, Missouri. The four-manual, 68-rank pipe organ, Opus 77, was created through the collaboration of Michael Quimby, president and tonal director, and T. Daniel Hancock, former president and designer, Quimby Pipe Organs; James F.

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New Organs: St. Patrick Catholic Church, Columbus, OH

Muller Pipe Organ Company, Croton, Ohio

Saint Patrick Catholic Church, Columbus, Ohio

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Drawings of 18th-century organ façades by Vilnius organ builders Part 2

Editor’s note: the first part of this series appeared in the September 2021 issue of The Diapason, pages 14–21.

RELATED: Part 1

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An interview with Paolo La Rosa

Italian organist and composer Paolo La Rosa is always exploring music with different points of view. After his studies in organ, choral conducting, improvisation, and composition at the “G. Verdi” Conservatory in Milan and the “L.

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In the Wind: from Nelson Barden to Dobson Pipe Organ Builders

A restoration story

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Carillon Profile: Chicago Botanic Garden

Chicago Botanic Garden's Theodore C. Butz Memorial Carillon

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Harpsichord Notes: Jurow International Competition

The Ninth Mae and Irving Jurow International Harpsichord Competition

The Ninth Mae and Irving Jurow International Harpsichord Competition, sponsored by the Historical Keyboard Society of North America, was held August 4–7 in St. Paul, Minnesota. The competition included contemporary repertoire, continuo, improvisation, and performance of a Bach concerto with the Lyra Baroque Orchestra, Jacques Ogg, artistic director.

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Nunc dimittis: Edith Ho and Pierre Rochas

Edith June Ho

Edith June Ho, 88, died July 30. Born in 1932 in China and raised in Hong Kong and Singapore, early on she set her sights on emigration to the United States. She earned money for the journey playing piano recitals throughout Cambodia and Vietnam, and by 1955 she had landed in Baltimore. There Edith Ho earned first a bachelor’s degree in piano from Columbia Union College, and then at Peabody Conservatory a second bachelor’s and a master’s degree, before accomplishing doctoral work in organ with her mentor, Arthur Howes.

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