Greetings! I hope your holidays were inspiring, refreshing and restful.

I am still struggling to balance the demands of full-time work, family
and organ practice, the latter unfortunately taking the back burner.
However, this past Sunday I substituted at Homecrest Presbyterian
Church, Bklyn, where I played an improvisation on hymn-tunes for the
prelude. Among the hymns I picked were "Ring Out The Old, Ring In the
New" (Grenoble church melody/Tennyson); "Let All Mortal Flesh Keep
Silence" (Trad. French melody, words from St. James Liturgy), and "So
Vyunom Ja Khozhu" -- "I am walking around with a woven rope", a
Russian folk song. Ok, that last one was not a hymn, but it's a lovely
melody. It was fun, and I definitely want to improve my
improvisational skills and techniques.

This Thursday, Jan 19, David Shuler is inviting us to his recital,
STYLUS PHANTASTICUS. It's at the church of St. Luke in the Fields,
NYC, 8:00 pm. I plan to be there. If anyone would like to meet up
before the concert for dinner or a drink, please let me know!

David Shuler picks very interesting and unusual selections for his
music offerings at the church, and I am very much looking forward to
Thursday. Also, the organ at St. Luke was designed by my teacher, Dr.
William Entriken, during his tenure there. For more info, please go
here:
http://www.organfocus.com/search.php3?eventID=10347

** New Links:
* James Kibbie contributed two links: in J.S. Bach sites,
http://www.organfocus.com/links/index.php?CID=10
James Kibbie: Bach Organ Works - Free downloads of the complete organ
works of J. S. Bach in MP3 or AAC format, newly recorded by James
Kibbie on original 18th-century German organs by Silbermann,
Hildebrandt, Trost, and others; sponsored by the University of
Michigan
http://www.blockmrecords.org/bach/

Also, in Personal Pages,
http://www.organfocus.com/links/index.php?CID=20
His personal page, which ncludes free downloads of James Kibbie's
annual 'audio holiday cards' recorded on Orgues L¨¦tourneau, Op. 7
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jkibbie/

* In Organbuilders,
http://www.organfocus.com/links/index.php?CID=30
The site of Robert I. Coulter: Providing the highest quality pipe
organ services to the Southeast United States including Atlanta,
Montgomery, Macon, Birmingham, Chattanooga, Spartanburg, and
Greenville.
http://coulterorgans.com/

** Member News:
San Diego Civic Organists' Day

Dr Carol Williams has just achieved a proclamation from Jerry Sanders,
the Mayor of San Diego, for a San Diego Civic Organists' Day. " I
wanted to thank the previous Civic Organists of this City who have
provided concerts on this great Spreckels Organ -- it is a fantastic
venue and I am delighted that the City has honored us with this
tremendous deed."

Dr Williams has been the Civic Organist since 2001 and performs
numerous concerts here in the USA and abroad. Future concerts include
the Great Concert Hall in Moscow; the Organ Festivals in Monaco and
Luxembourg and Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris.

For more information on Carol Williams, visit
www.CarolWilliamsNow.com
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Roman Krasnovsky has returned from Paris, France, where he performed
a recital at Notre Dame de Paris on January 6th. His program was as
follows:

J.S. Bach: Praeludium und Fuge a-moll BWV 543
Johannes Brahms: "Herzlich tut mich verlangen" op.posth.122, Nr.10
Maurice Durufl§× : Prelude et Fugue sur le nom d'Alain op.7
Roman Krasnovsky: Cyprus' nighte op.5 (Les nuits Chypriotes)
Roman Krasnovsky : Toccata domenicale. op.9

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Arthur LaMirande will play a recital and the following mass on April
6th at Vancouver, British Columbia, Cathedral of the Holy Rosary.
April 6, 2008, 7 p.m.

His program:
Franz Schmidt: Prelude and Fugue in C.
Franz Schmidt: Der Heiland ist erstanden (The Saviour is Risen)
Augustinus Franz Kropfreiter: Exsultet

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Have a great week!

Lana