February 2008

Schoenstein & Co., Organ Builders, San Francisco, California Christ Church Episcopal, Cambridge, Massachusetts

John-Paul Buzard Pipe Organ Builders, Champaign, Illinois: First Presbyterian Church, Lexington, Kentucky

The Organ Historical Society gathered at the Sheraton Hotel in Indianapolis for its 52nd annual convention. It was a “Hoosier Holiday” on the banks of the Wabash with a wealth of music, organs, beautiful venues, corn and soybean fields, and gracious hospitality!

James Kibbie is perhaps best known through his position as professor of organ at the University of Michigan, where he has served on the organ faculty since 1981. Also quite active as a performer and clinician, Kibbie is at present involved in a project to record all of J. S. Bach’s organ works, with the recordings to be made available, free of charge, through Internet distribution rather than CDs (see www.blockmrecords.org).

Pedal playing, part IV: real music

Take advantage of the next time you are with someone who forms a meaningful link to the past.

Here follows a miscellany of unrelated, but (hopefully) fascinating items, brought to my attention because of a friend’s initiative.

Rosemary Laing, carillonneur of the Netherlands Centennial Carillon in Victoria, British Columbia, sends news of the installation of a new playing console.

Elise Murray Cambon, Anita Jeanne Shiflett Graves, Kay Wood Haley, Gerald W. Herman Sr., Theodore C. Herzel, Everett W. Leonard, W. Gordon Marigold, Johnette Eakin Schuller