Greetings!

This is a special double-length issue.

** OrganFocus News:

* Fifth Annual Guilmant Organ Recital Series at First Presbyterian
Church, NYC, starts tomorrow. Performers are Anthony Pinel, Mark Bani
and William F. Entriken (Organist and Choirmaster, First Presbyterian
Church). Read about this year's series:
http://www.organfocus.com/features/events/guilmant_2005.php

Learn about the history of the Guilmant School:
http://www.organfocus.com/members/w_entriken/guilmant_school.php3

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* Carol Williams, British concert organist, performs an exciting and
unusual "classical jazz" program on the great organ of St. Mary's
Cathedral, San Francisco on Wednesday March 9th at 7 pm.
Composers will include Philip Glass, William Bolcom, Dan Locklair, Giles
Swayne and more!
For more information please call (415) 567-2020 ext. 213, or e-mail
ctietze@...
Read the entire program here:
http://www.organfocus.com/features/events/CarolWilliams_03092005.rtf

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** Member News:

* A new pipe organ service contractor has come to the Wichita, Kansas
area. Christopher M. Koeppel of Koeppels' Pipe Organ Tuning &
Servicing Company would be thrilled to hear from you. He will be
avaliable after April 1st due to deployment to Iraq. His contact
e-mail address is: rohrfloute2000@... .He will have his web site
up and running soon. Please inquire for further information.

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* Jared Lamenzo, organist at St. Patrick's Old Cathedral, invites
everyone to visit his updated website, Erben Renewal. The site is
dedicated to the preservation program of historic 1868 Henry Erben
pipe organ at the cathedral.
http://www.jaredlamenzo.com/erbenrenewal/

See more pictures and read about the day the Erben received a citation
from Organ Historical Society:
http://www.organfocus.com/features/sights-and-sounds/erben_stpatricks.php3

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* Lorenz Maycher invites you to visit the newly updated website of the
Vermont Organ Academy, designed to promote the organ and its music.
http://www.vermontorganacademy.com

* It turns out new member Yangchen Lin from Singapore and I share a
common thread in our history. For both of us, St. Stephansdom in
Vienna holds special meaning. Stephansdom is the place where I first
heard live organ music, in October 1989. Though I didn't start
learning organ until 1996, the memory of my experience at glorious
Stephansdom definitely contributed to the decision to begin taking
lessons. The organ that I heard now stands silent, and I was
especially pleased to see wonderful pictures and description of
Yangchen's exploration of the Kaufmann instrument at St. Stephansdom.
http://sps.nus.edu.sg/~linyangc/stephansdomorgel.html

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** Web News:

* Paris's Church of Saint-Louis-en-l'Ile to Get New Organ Specially
Made for Bach
http://www.andante.com/article/article.cfm?id=25027

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* Original Wurlizter headed back to State Theater

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - An organization renovating a historic Sioux Falls
movie house has located the theater's original Wurlitzer pipe organ.
http://www.aberdeennews.com/mld/aberdeennews/news/10796606.htm

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* Look, Ma--No Hands!

A writer at Slashdot aptly titled this "Musical Robots Invade
Juilliard". Last November, a concert was performed on guitar, violin,
Yamaha disklavier, and the pipe organ - entirely without human
performers.
http://www.juilliard.edu/update/journal/j_articles385.html
http://brendanadamson.com/roborecital_gallery.htm

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* You probably have heard news of the tragic destruction of a
historic Hook organ by fire in Boston. Read the article at Boston.com:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/01/20/historic_orga\
n_lost_in_jamaica_plain_fire/

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* The organist's next stop

Selected in December to be the new University Organist, Eric Plutz
will soon bring his talent to the Princeton campus community.
http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2005/02/04/news/11902.shtml

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* Organist to score silent film about Jesus

Theatre organist Christopher Elliott will score a film of a different
type -- Cecil B. DeMille's 1926 silent film titled "The King of
Kings."
http://www.herald-dispatch.com/2005/January/21/LFlist1.htm

* Jacksonville restorer set to rebuild 100-year-old pipe organ

Bill White has his work cut out for him - a giant musical jigsaw puzzle.
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050130/APN/501300691

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Today's Organ Stop:

Schulze Diapason
http://www.organstops.org/s/SchulzeDiapason.html

Have a great week,

Lana