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Perhaps it is E. Power Biggs' program choices that have helped him rise to the heights of popular acclaim that he has achieved as an organist. Then again, his may be the same charm that the Mormon Tabernacle Choir oozes when its masses of sound blanket an audience. But judging from his concert at the Busch-Reisinger Museum this week, Mr. Biggs' fame could not possibly be due to the precision of execution that normally accompanies a virtuoso performance. It is unfortunate that an otherwise sensitive performance was upset by unevenness in rhythm in many passages throughout the evening...
Rumors ran wild. He was a Hungarian who knew twelve languages, a student of Renaissance research on the human kidney, a painter, a poet, an organist and pianist specializing in Bach, a teacher of mathematics, a pharmacist, a doctor, a many-sided genius who had holed up in the jungles of South America...
...have been accustomed to singing the Lenten hymn, Lord Who Throughout These Forty Days. After reading of Bishop Donegan's suggestion that Lent be shortened from 40 days to a single week or two [March 12], our organist left for me the following note: "Perhaps next year we'll be singing Lord Who Threw Out These Forty Days...
That was in 1952, and the citizens of Chartres have not forgotten the incident, for Dupré has never returned and the organ has since become a cause of national embarrassment. "Every Sunday," grieves the cathedral's permanent organist, Marcel Ruello, "there's a new accident. We just never know what's going to come out." What often does emerge is an unsettling chorus of wheezes and groans, death rattles of a grand old instrument buckling under the weight of time. Unable to stand it any longer, one Chartres parishioner, Publisher Pierre Firmin-Didot, has launched...
Campaigner Firmin-Didot figures that complete renovation will cost about $120,000. It will take a year to dismantle, renovate and reassemble the massive instrument as a "neoclassic" organ. When the job is done, says Organist Ruello, Chartres for the first time will hear "the wide range of musical literature to which it is rightfully entitled...