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August 2007

Quimby Pipe Organs, Inc., Warrensburg, Missouri James C. Coleberd residence, Hannibal, Missouri Dr. James C. Coleberd, a retired osteopathic physician and currently president and CEO of the Mark Twain Cave, a family-owned enterprise in…
Rudolf von Beckerath Orgelbau, Hamburg, Germany Maurine Jackson Smith Memorial Organ, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Doc Rando Recital Hall The public perception of Las Vegas is hardly one that conjures up visions of fine pipe organs.…
Historical sketch While the history of the organ in the territories of modern Latvia stretches back to the Middle Ages, Latvian organ music itself (as well as classical Latvian music in general) emerged only in the last quarter of the 19th…
Oxford’s mild early spring weather and sunny skies welcomed conference delegates from eight European countries and the United States to a splendid conference on the organ in Tudor England, organized by Katharine Pardee (Betts Scholar in…
Some scholars define French Impressionist composers as those born up to 1902 rather than 1900. This allows for the significant talent of the Debussy of the organ, Maurice Duruflé, who by the mid-20th century contributed to the musical…
“ . . . and the livin’ is easy,” It’s high summer and Americans are at the playground. Amusement parks are full, beaches are packed, and the highways leading to the beaches are global-warming nightmares—you can see the heat waves…
Peter Watchorn plays Bach’s WTC I “It makes us feel spiritually spic and span.” These words kept coming to mind as I spent a musically intense afternoon listening to the entire first book of J. S. Bach’s Das Wohltemperierte Clavier [The…
Richard Elvin “Rick” Fritsch, of Millersville, Pennsylvania, died June 5 at age 52 after a three-year battle with cancer. Born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, he received a BS degree in music education from Elizabethtown College in 1977 and a…