Greetings!

** Web News:

Iveta Apkalna, the Latvian organ star, is gathering record audiences
at her concerts. Listen to her entire performance recorded in Trier
earlier this year, at the website Orgelradio.nl. The recording will be
availlable until the end of September only.

Introduction and program (in Dutch):
http://www.organist.nl/wcms/modules/news/article.php?storyid=695

Concert sounds:
http://www.orgelradio.nl/wcms/modules/news/article.php?storyid=50

More about Iveta Apkalna at OrganFocus.com:
http://www.organfocus.com/features/events/iveta_apkalna.php

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* Concert in the cathedral

Religious music a celebration of the 30th season
http://news.kypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050924/NEWS02/509240336/1014

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* Voice of Peristyle's 1926 Skinner organ will be heard again

"It was a sign of the times that Cleveland Orchestra organist Todd
Wilson heard the Toledo Museum of Art Peristyle's magnificent 1926
E.M. Skinner organ only twice while growing up in 1960s Toledo."
http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050925/ART10/509240313

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* Noel Mander: obituary

"Noel Mander, who has died aged 93, was one of the most important
British organ builders and restorers of the 20th century."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/09/27/db2701.xml&sShee\
t=/portal/2005/09/27/ixportal.html

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* An organist in my belfry

Reflections on the role of the organist in the Church of England
http://www.churchnewspaper.com/englandonsunday/index.php?read=on&number_key=5788\
&title=An%20organist%20in%20my%20belfry

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* Pipes keep Tiger pride pumping

"Yvonne Olenzak's hands shook for 20 minutes as her fingers translated
each note of "Tiger Rag" to the skinny keys of a calliope."
http://www.indeonline.com/left.php?ID=4198&r=0&Category=1

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* Concerts banned after elderly fans turn rowdy

"Rowdy behaviour by elderly theatre organ fans has led to a ban on
lunchtime concerts in Penistone, South Yorkshire, where the Paramount
cinema's 68-year-old pipe organ is the last of its type in Britain."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1580484,00.html

More on the Paramount organ:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/southyorkshire/entertainment/film/paramount/organ.shtml

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Today's Organ Stop is:

Gedecktpommer
http://www.organstops.org/g/Gedecktpommer.html


Have a great week,

Lana