April 24, 2015
Wilbur Held, 100, died March 24 in Claremont, California, a few months shy of his 101st birthday. Born August 20, 1914, in Des Plaines, Illinois, Held was an accomplished organist best known for his prolific compositions of sacred music in many forms. (See Larry Palmer’s article, “Celebrating Wilbur Held,” in The Diapason August 2014 issue, page 25.) Nancy M. Raabe provides a remembrance on page 26 of the May issue.
