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...cantors of his day. Bach was born in Eisenach, a town in the Thuringian forest of Germany, dominated by the medieval castle of the Wartburg, where Luther translated the Bible into German. Orphaned in 1695 when he was only nine, he spent his youth as a choirboy, violinist and organist. By the time he arrived in Weimar in his mid-20s, he was already an outstanding organist, and during his years there he developed into the finest organist of his time. In Weimar he wrote some of his most glorious music: the "Great" Preludes and Fugues in A Minor...
...organ worth $90,000 is being built for Memorial Church by C.B. Fisk, Inc., of Gloucester. The organ, designed by John R. Ferris, University organist and choirmaster, and a committee of experts, will be installed by the summer...
Barnes, 36, arrived fresh from a twelve-year engagement at the University of Kansas, where he was resident carillonneur, professor of carillon and harpsichord, and curator of rare musical instruments. He brought to Washington the sort of vellum-bound humor acquired in his esoteric calling. "A good organist can adapt to a carillon fairly quickly," he said pleasantly. "In about two years he should have a good start...
Broad & Ambitious. For want of a better description, this remarkable company is formally classified as an electronics firm. That is a bit like calling Albert Schweitzer an organist. Litton is really an amorphous giant with interests and appetites as broad as the universe. Its 200 products range from hulking nuclear submarines to tiny electronic tubes that can send radio and TV signals back to earth from millions of miles out in space. Its plants turn out the electronic brains that have transformed business methods and the trading stamps that have conquered the housewife. Litton makes guidance systems that fly planes...
Speech to Our Time. Although he is not wedded to the baroque himself, the hero of the baroqueniks is Festival Conductor Thomas Dunn, 37, who divides his time between his regular duties as organist at Manhattan's Episcopal Church of the Incarnation and such special music projects as this summer's festival and last fall's three sellout per formances of all of Bach's Brandenburg concertos. Says Dunn of the baroque: "The music of that period speaks to our time...