Word: organization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...motif reflects the organ's origin more than two years ago in Fisk's Gloucester shop. After design and preliminary assembly there, installation in the Chapel began last March. Fisk has "been working night and day since May" to voice, or tune, its 4500 pipes, John Ferris, University organist and choirmaster, said yesterday...
Starfish, kelp, sacred cod, and a crab decorate the University's new organ, dedicated yesterday in a packed Memorial Church service...
...Charles P. Price, Preacher to the University, accepted the $109,000 instrument--the largest organ of its kind constructed by an American in this century--from builder Charles B. Fisk '49. Done in pseudo-Baroque style to harmonize with Appleton Chapel, the choir section of the Church, the organ's gilded carvings were executed by Rockport artist Roger H. Martin...
...organ is one one-third the size of the instrument it replaces, but its better placing makes it more effective, according to Ferris. The old organ, built in 1932 as a memorial to Albert Keep Isham '15, was "not particularly distinguished, badly placed, and of a type that is costly to maintain," Ferris said. Like most American organs of the past fifty years, it was electro-pneumatic--key action was electrically controlled...
...dramatic than the droning, hypnotic waves of sound poured out by other West Coast groups such as the Jefferson Airplane and Grateful Dead. They startle and bemuse with a uniquely mournful and moody tone that shades Morrison's dusky voice seamlessly into a dark-textured background: the haunting organ, piano and bass of Ray Manzarek, 24; the sinuous guitar of Robby Krieger, 21; the nimble drums of John Densmore...