OrganFocus.com News:
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July 2005 New Member: Sabin Levi
Iveta Apkalna wins the ECHO-Klassik prize in the category "Instrumentalist of the
Year"
Organ Masterclass with Thierry Escaich --report (.DOC, in three languages)
May 2005 A Short Overview of César Franck's Twelve Pieces for Organ
by Sabin Levi
April 2005 Blessed Sacrament Church is acquiring a 1878 Erben organ in Seattle, WA
February 2005 Fifth Annual Guilmant Organ Recital Series at First Presbyterian Church, NYC
Carol Williams performs an exciting and unusual "classical jazz" program on the great organ of St. Mary's Cathedral, San Francisco (.RTF)
January 2005 Mendelssohn Encounters Bach David Shuler performs Mendelssohn's historic recital (.RTF)
December 2004 The Spreckels Organ 90th Birthday Party -- Celebration of world's largest outdoor pipe organ! (.RTF)
Straightforward Organ Music by Colin Mawby
Church Music Conference 2005 at Alabama University School of Music (.DOC)
Organ Masterclass with Ben Van Oosten --report (.DOC, in three languages)
Organ Masterclass with Olivier Latry --report (.DOC, in three languages)
November 2004 Pictures of the Erben organ at St. Patrick's Old Cathedral by Lana Krakovskiy
October 2004 Eastern Europe Tour 2004 -- new essay by Carol Williams about her trip to Poland and Czech Republic
October 2004 Música de Órgano en Santiago de Compostela -- a festival in Spain (.PDF, in Spanish)
September 2004 Pictures of the Mormon Tabernacle Organ Facade and Stops by Lou Hurst and Lana Krakovskiy
September 2004 New Member: Colin Mawby -- Colin Mawby writes about his organ music
August 2004 An organist's life in Israel -- New essay by Roman Krasnovsky
August 2004 Premio Battipaglia 2004 and calendar - Detailed descriptions of the International Organ Competition from Accademia Organistica Campana, and calendar of events (PDF, in Italian and English)
August 2004 New Member: Roman Krasnovsky
July 2004 New Feature: Sebastian M. Glück Opus 8 at Alexander Chapel, First Presbyterian Church NYC -- Pictures and sounds
June 2004 Added "send event to a friend" function to the Search Form
June 2004 New Press Release: Newly Restored Royal Albert Hall Organ - Inaugural Recital and more
May 2004 New Essay: The organ in St. Mary Magdalene, Toronto, Canada by Ross Trant
May 2004 New Press Release: Sounding Images. Music from Bach and Petr Eben - Imaginative music, based on the Bible. Organ, trumpets, drums, percussion etc. Images of Chagall and Johannes of Patmos. (PDF, in Dutch)
April 2004 New Press Release: International organ competition - 2nd competition "Francesco D'Onofrio" Carunchio (CH) Italy (MS-Word)
April 2004 New Page: Pipe Organ News on the Web - a syndicated compilation of pipe organ news in various publications
April 2004 New Press Release: Iveta Apkalna, Public Award Winner
March 2004 New Call for Help: Save a Morgan & Smith organ from destruction
March 2004 New Call for Help: Save the Organ program at Northwestern University
February 2004 New Press Release: Iveta Apkalna, Award Winner
October 2003 New Event: The First Israeli Organ Festival
August 2003 New Event: Thomas Murray recital on the E.M. Skinner organ at St. Ann & Holy Trinity Episcopal Church
June 2003 Updated Link Directory. The list of organ schools, colleges and universities in the US is particularly extensive
June 2003 New Event: Brighton Dome organ returns to the concert hall September 2003
February 2003 New Feature: The German Romantic Organ in Rousse, Bulgaria by Sabin Levi
February 2003 New Feature: The Pipe Organ at Katsbaan Reformed Church by Janice Trevail
January 2003 New Feature: AGO 2002 Convention Displays -- Assembling a Pipe Organ by Lana Krakovskiy
September 2002 New Music Collection.
August 2002 New Link Directory.
May 2002 New Search Interface. Check out OrganFocus database contents for quick results.
12.19.2001 New Member: Daniel Zaretsky
04.02.2001 New Essay: Vox Humana - Vox Populi: The story of an organ Down Under by Martin Setchell
02.07.2001 New Essay: A Modest Proposal - Beyond Statistical Insignificance by Michael Barone
02.03.2001 OrganFocus.com receives "Website of the Month" award from the Organ Web Ring
01.23.2001 New Featured Event: Guilmant Organ Recital Series at First Presbyterian Church, NYC -- Recitals 2 & 3
01.21.2001 New Feature: Pictures of the Lively-Fulcher organ at U. of Utah
01.16.2001 New Feature: Pictures of the Abbaye aux Hommes, Caen
01.13.2001 New Section: Sights and Sounds opens with Pictures of the Caudebec de Caux organ
01.12.2001 New Featured Event: The Chicago International Organ Festival 2001
12.26.2000 New Featured Event: Guilmant Organ Recital Series at First Presbyterian Church, NYC --First Recital
12.10.2000 New Section: Scholarly Works opens with a lecture by Stephen Bicknell
12.07.2000 New Review: Fred Swann's Christmas Concert at First Congregational Church, LA
11.21.2000 New Review: Jürgen Rodeland plays at St. Aureus Church in Büdesheim, Germany
11.19.2000 New Photographic essay: Pictures of the Mander organs in St. Agnes and St. Ignatius Loyola, NYC
11.17.2000 New Featured Event: Bachanalia 2000 concert by the Greater Hartford CT. Chapter AGO
11.12.2000 Pictures available for the St Stephens-in-the-Fields essay
11.10.2000 New Featured Event: Dr. Susan Armstrong and Michael Sklader Organ Concert
11.03.2000 New Member:
Gebr. Oberlinger Orgelbau . Essay: Organbuilding in the Middle Rhine Tradition by John H. Nisbet and Dr. Jürgen Rodeland
10.29.2000 New Member: Orgelbau Glatter-Götz . Essay: The Future of the Pipe Organ by Caspar von Glatter-Götz.
10.25.2000 OrganFocus.com is featured in the AGOnline column of The American Organist Magazine
10.22.2000 New Essay: The organ in St.Stephen-in-the-Fields, Toronto, Canada
10.22.2000 New Review: Andrew Nethsinga at St George's Cathedral, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
10.11.2000 Reviews section opens
10.08.2000 New featured event: Chemung Valley AGO organ crawl
10.06.2000 New Member at OrganFocus.com: Ross Trant
10.01.2000 Essays section opens
10.01.2000 First Member at OrganFocus.com: Dr. William F. Entriken
09.19.2000 Featured Events section opens
08.05.2000 OrganFocus.com site launches
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