December 2003
Born on October 23, 1923, in Richmond, Indiana, Ned Rorem began his training in music at an early age. By the age of ten, his piano teacher introduced him to musical luminaries such as Debussy and Ravel. At seventeen he entered the Music…
Henry Karl Baker died on September 30 at the age of 71. Born in Nashua, New Hampshire, he received his bachelor's degree in music education from the University of New Hampshire, master of music degree from The New England Conservatory of…
Edward L. Kottick: A History of the Harpsichord.
"There may be those whose knowledge of the harpsichord encompasses the whole of its six-hundred-year history, but I am not among them." Thus begins Edward Kottick's 557-page magnum opus, now…
Tim Byram-Wigfield has been the music director at Jesus College in Cambridge since 1999. A former chorister at King's College, he was organ scholar at Christ Church Oxford before he moved to Winchester Cathedral to be sub-organist in 1985…
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St. Peter's Church in the Great Valley, Paoli, Pennsylvania
From the builder
Ever since pictures arrived, we were fascinated by the
pre-Revolutionary War church building of St. Peter's…
The installation of the III/33 1950 Kilgen organ #7401 from Sacred Heart Cathedral in Davenport, Iowa, into the Ziegenfelder residence in Glenford, New York, represents more than 12 years of work.
The seed for this project was planted in…
On July 10, 2003, I began one of the most interesting trips of my life, The University of Michigan's 49th Historic Tour led by Marilyn Mason. This was my first trip to Germany, and was less than two days after my Bach organ recital which…
Catharine Crozier died on September 19, 2003, in Portland, Oregon, at the age of 89. A complete obituary appears in the November issue of The Diapason ("Nunc Dimittis," page 10). The following tributes are presented In Memoriam.
Catharine…
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