December 2004
Donald Basil Austin (1933-2004) died September 17 of complications from emphysema. He was 71. Mr. Austin was long affiliated with Austin Organs, Inc., the firm originally founded as Austin Organ Company by his great uncles, John T. Austin…
Bedient Pipe Organ Company, Roca, Nebraska
The Episcopal Church of St. John the Baptist, Thomaston,
Maine
The pastor and congregation at The Episcopal Church of St.
John the Baptist chose to view the fundraising for their new organ as a…
Introduction and Purpose
The lack of autograph manuscripts and the haphazard transmission of Buxtehude's organ works through generations of questionable copyists has plagued Buxtehude scholarship since its inception. In many cases, the…
Martin Ott Pipe Organ Company, Inc., St. Louis, Missouri
First United Methodist Church, Jackson, Michigan
From the organ builder:
In 1996, I was contacted by the First United Methodist Church in Jackson,
Michigan about their desire to hear…
Introduction
While the nineteenth-century masters of the Romantic avant garde and even many composers of what Robert Schumann called the juste milieu have been dealt with significantly in musicological treatises, the more conservative…
We have printed reports on most of the Bruges harpsichord competitions since I wrote an article about the second triennial event for The Diapason of October 1968. That year there were 34 competitors; the jury included Isolde Ahlgrimm and…
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