Word: organizations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
Ferris said yesterday that the decision to buy a new organ was made when he discovered it would take $35,000 to over-haul the 33-year-old organ now in use. He said, further, that the old organ had "never been satisfactory," and that it will cost half as much to maintain...
...organ will operate by mechanical tracker action, the traditional mechanism, rather than by the more modern electric action. This form was chosen to create a more pleasant-counting organ, what Ferris called "a return in principle to the baroque organ...
Installation of the new organ will require considerable renovation of Appleton Chapel, Ferris said. The side chambers, where pipes are now locate, will be plastered so that there will be loss absorption by the walls. The case of the organ, freestanding and claborately carried of oak, will be placed against the east wall of the Chapel...
...family to their summer palace in a village above Palermo. Descending from dusty carriages, Don Fabrizio is greeted by a host of punctuous officials and the jaunty blaring of a brass band. With deliberate steps, he walks the gauntlet of gaping, impoverished eyes to enter the cathedral where the organ is playing an aria from "La Traviata." As the last notes hang amid marble frescoes high above, the band is still heard outside in the blazing courtyard. And while the villagers push and shove for a view, the Prince and his family sit in special pews near the altar, their...