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...SCOTT BUHRMAN, F. A. G. O. Editor The American Organist Staten Island...
Thus, in your May 7 issue under Music, you fail to include the name of Charles Heinroth, former Organist and Director of Music at Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh and now associated with the College of the City of New York, who outclasses many of the men you mention...
Famed on two churchly accounts is the town of Ivrea in the foothills of the Italian Alps. In Ivrea St. Patrick stopped on his way from Rome to Ireland. In the mountains overlooking Ivrea is the birthplace and home of Pietro Yon, famed organist of Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral...
...summers ago in the quiet of his mountain lodge Organist Yon felt inspired to tell in music the story of the Irish Saint for whom his Cathedral was named. Back in New York he commissioned a libretto from Armando Romano, an editor of Il Progresso. Last week, thanks to Humbert Fugazy and Bart Manfredi, two devout Roman Catholic prizefight promoters who furnished the necessary backing, New York heard the world premiere of The Triumph of St. Patrick...
...right of the stage. Sometimes he used his great instrument to strengthen the choruses. More often it was only to blend with the orchestra or round out massive undertones worthy of his subject. Pietro Yon proved years ago that he is a musician before he is an organist. He had not written an oratorio to exhibit his own virtuosity, to show how his feet could travel the pedals, his fingers control the maze of stops...