January 22, 2018
Winthrop University, Rock Hill, South Carolina, will hold its Third Annual International Organ Series recital on February 25, featuring Maxine Thévenot playing the university’s 1955 Aeolian-Skinner Opus 1257, renovated by Orgues Létourneau in 2009.
The series is supported by the Hazel and Murray Somerville Organ Performance Endowment and Friends of the D. B. Johnson Organ Performance Fund. Past years’ performances featured James O’Donnell (2016) and Stefan Engels (2017), accompanied by a lecture by Christoph Wolff.
The renovation by Létournau featured in the July 2009 issue of The Diapason, pp. 24–25.
For information: www.winthrop.edu.
Winthrop University, Rock Hill, South Carolina, Aeolian-Skinner organ console (photo credit: Andy Burriss)
