November 2006
Orgues Létourneau Limitée, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada
The Pasquerilla Spiritual Center,
The Pennsylvania State University,
State College, Pennsylvania
The largest worship space of its kind in the United States, the Pasquerilla…
Petty-Madden Organbuilders, Hopewell, New Jersey, Op. 53
Dobbs Chapel at Trinity Presbyterian Church, Atlanta, Georgia
Petty-Madden has installed its second organ at Trinity Presbyterian Church, Atlanta. The first, a large three-manual…
Hupalo & Repasky Pipe Organs, LLC, San Leandro, California
St. Maria Goretti Parish, Scottsdale, Arizona
Hupalo & Repasky Pipe Organs bring Möller Opus 10,731 into the 21st century
Located due east of Phoenix, the Scottsdale parish…
Friday, June 30
The final day of the convention dawned with bright and abundant sunshine—a welcome sight after all the rain. The first event was a lecture by organ scholar James Wallmann entitled “The OHS at Fifty! So What?”. He noted the…
In the months leading up to the Organ Historical Society’s Fiftieth Anniversary National Convention, the question on everyone’s mind was “Could it live up to the level of advance excitement it was generating?” The OHS magazine, The Tracker…
Musical practice in 21st-century Nigeria can be broadly divided into four major genres: 1) traditional music, 2) popular dance music, 3) church music, and 4) modern African art music. Traditional music can be traced back to the historical…
Church musicians from 27 states and the Virgin Islands gathered on the mountain at DuBose Conference Center in Monteagle, Tennessee, for the 56th annual Sewanee Church Music Conference July 10–16. Robert Delcamp, Professor of Music,…
Recent DNA tests on a human skull preserved at the Salzburg Mozart-eum have failed to establish that these bones were ever part of the great Mozart. My own efforts to “get inside the composer’s skull” have been engendered by the question “…
What is art?
For the last several years the Organ Clearing House has been involved in the preservation of a mighty organ. M. P. Möller’s Opus 5819 (89 ranks) was installed in the Philadelphia Civic Center in 1929–30. The Civic Center had…
John R. Turnbull died May 4 in Spartanburg, South Carolina, at the age of 66. Born in Frederick, Oklahoma, he held degrees in organ and piano from the University of Oklahoma, where he studied with Mildred Andrews, and a DMA from the…
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