The University of North Texas Press announces a new book, Music from the Hilltop: Organs and Organists at Southern Methodist University, by Benjamin A. Kolodziej.
The 335-page hardbound volume with 40 pictures narrates the history of organ studies at the university and a history of church music and pipe organs in Dallas, Texas, focusing on three influential figures: Bertha Stevens Cassidy (1876–1959), the first university organ professor; Dora Poteet Barclay (1903–1961), who followed in her teacher Cassidy’s footsteps; and Robert Theodore Anderson (1934–2009). Kolodziej is organist of Perkins Chapel at Southern Methodist University.
For information: untpress.unt.edu.
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