March 2004
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Westwood United Methodist Church, Los Angeles,
California,
The Shaffer Memorial Organ.
Walsh & Tidwell, 2002-2003 (chancel
additions/gallery organ).
Schantz Organ Co., 1995-1996 (chancel organ).
Robert M. Turner Organbuilder, Inc…
In time for the third Spoleto Festival USA in 1979, a companion festival, Piccolo Spoleto, was organized in conjunction with the City of Charleston’s Office of Cultural Affairs. The first meeting about this took place in Ben Hutto’s…
Dirk Andries Flentrop, undoubtedly the best-known Dutch organ builder of the past century worldwide, died on 30 November 2003 at the age of 93. (For an obituary, see The Diapason, February 2004, "Nunc Dimittis," page 6.) Flentrop occupied…
On March 21 at 3 pm, Wolfgang Rübsam will play a recital commemorating the 80th anniversary of a recital by Marcel Dupré on the 1911 Casavant organ opus 469 (three manuals and 38 stops) at First Congregational Church, Oshkosh, Wisconsin.…
Fiftieth anniversaries are big events, whether a golden wedding anniversary or the commemoration of a pipe organ. Changing fashions and the tides of time often obscure the work of past masters of organ building, but in the case of G.…
The 24th International Organ and Church Music Institute, directed by Marilyn Mason and held on the University of Michigan campus June 23-25, 2003, was a time of summer friendship, fun, and fundamentals. The presenters offered helpful, in-…
Portland’s historic Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, where Catharine Crozier was Artist-in-Residence from 1992 until her death, was the site for a profoundly beautiful memorial service on January 26, 2004. The Trinity Choir, under the…
Thomas Lassfolk Finch, 77, of Canton, New York, died of pancreatic cancer December 18, 2003. Born November 26, 1926, in Madison, Wisconsin, he graduated from Wisconsin High School in 1945. Attending the University of Wisconsin, he received…
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