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Hector Berlioz once remarked that the orchestra may be the king of music, but that the organ is the pope. In the past 200 years, since the death of Bach (1685-1750), the king has reigned supreme. During the whole romantic and impressionist era, only a handful of composers bothered to write for the organ, and what they wrote was largely insignificant. But in recent decades, the pope of the musical world has begun a major comeback. Modern U.S. composers * Walter Piston, Roger Sessions, Quincy Porter, Leo Sowerby-have written dozens of organ pieces, and U.S. audiences have found...
...Fashion. It is just possible that E. Power Biggs ("Biggsie" to his friends) has never even heard of Liberace. Born in Westcliff, near London (he is now a U.S. citizen), Biggs studied engineering, gave it up to take a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music. After teaching organ at the academy, he toured England, then came to the U.S. and became organist of the Boston Symphony...
Something for Everyone. Last week Biggs was back in England. Invited to play at Westminster Abbey, he had only a few hours of rehearsal with the huge organ. Because the Abbey's acoustics are so troublesome that the organist has scarcely any idea what his playing sounds like, Mrs. Biggs was stationed far below in the choir stall as Biggsie tried the stops, calling up to him, "Too squeaky," "Too harsh...
Although recognized as the official organ of the Harvard Alumni association and the Associated Harvard Clubs, the Bulletin is financially and editorially independent of both these organizations, and of the University itself...
Members of the Bulletin staff are quite proud of this autonomy, and repeatedly emphasize that their magazine is in no sense a "house organ of the Dean's office." Joseph R. Hamlen '04, President and Publisher of the Bulletin since 1927, for example, recalls telling more than one University president the magazine could not carry an editorial or news item in exactly the form the president wanted. On the whole, however, there has been little conflict between the Bulletin and the University, and Hamlen characterizes their relationship as that of "pleasant playmates...