July 2002
Carillon composition competition
The fifth international Queen Fabiola Carillon Competition will take place in 2003 in Mechelen, Belgium. It is the most prestigious performance competition for carillonneurs. To complement this event, the…
Wesley M. Vos 1940-2002
Wesley M. Vos, associate editor of The Diapason since 1967, died on May 9 at his home in Crystal Lake, Illinois. He was 61. Dr. Vos also was professor of music at DePaul University and served as organist for several…
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Austin Organs, Inc.,
Hartford, Connecticut, has installed a new Antiphonal organ at Christ Church
Cathedral, Hartford. The cathedral dates from 1828, and was subsequently
supplied with successive organs by Erben, Hook & Hastings…
The pedagogy of organ performance must deal with the tension between playing technique and musical interpretation. On the one hand, all physical possibilities of playing ought to be developed, trained, and educated in a most intensive and…
From Thursday March 7 through Saturday March 9, 2002, two concurrent events at Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania vied for the attention of early-keyboard enthusiasts. In one of them, the fifteen semi-finalists of the fifth…
Friend, colleague, and mentor--Wesley Vos, associate editor of The Diapason since 1967--died on May 9 at the age of 61, from complications of liver disease. An obituary appears on page 6 of this issue, recounting some of the professional…
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