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55th University of Michigan Organ Conference
October 4–6, 2015
The 55th annual University of Michigan Organ Conference, with the theme “Organ Music of Central Europe,” took place October 4–6, 2015. Following Michele Johns’ retirement celebration in 2014, and the Marilyn Mason fête the year before, this conference was a quieter affair, attracting mostly local Michigan alumni and current students.
Czech, please: A conversation with Sister Anita Smisek, OP
President-Publisher of Alliance Publications, Inc.
The lower level of the motherhouse of the Dominican Sisters of Sinsinawa Mound, Wisconsin, is an immense circular structure that contains literally a small city—an auditorium that seats 500, a labyrinth, private studios for harp, piano, and voice, a choir room that seats 100, business offices, and several rooms devoted to Alliance Publications, Inc.
The Class of 2016: 20 leaders under the age of 30
The Diapason’s second annual “20 under 30” selections came from a field that included over 130 nominations, a response that exceeded the previous year’s. The nominees were evaluated based upon information provided in the nominations; we selected only from those who had been nominated.
A new organ for Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago
Quimby Pipe Organs Opus 71
March 18, 2016, marked an important milestone in the history of the pipe organ in Chicago. Chicago was founded in 1837, and the first traceable organ was installed in the city that same year by Henry Erben of New York City, in St. James Episcopal Church (now the Cathedral). Nearly 180 years later, the largest organ in the city was dedicated in concert just a few short blocks away at historic Fourth Presbyterian Church.
New Organs
Berghaus Pipe Organ Builders, Bellwood, Illinois
Zion Lutheran Church (WELS), Columbus, Wisconsin
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A. E. Schlueter Pipe Organ Company, Lithonia, Georgia
First Evangelical Lutheran Church, Galveston Island, Texas
