Word: organized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pipe organ seemed to have played itself to a standstill when, about two years ago, it was suddenly discovered by high-fidelity fans and came back with a roar. With high fidelity's new recording techniques, hazy diapasons became vivid, and when the hi-fi crowd learned that the organ could play both lower and higher than any other instrument, it became their all-out favorite. The boom began with sub-middlebrow theater-organ concoctions, e.g., a series of LPs by Organist Reginald Foort, on the Cook label, continued with a series by George Wright, put out by newly...
...lack of an organist or a program; Westminster has an agreement with Princeton's Carl Weinrich, 51, a musician willing and able to undertake all the organ works of Bach. But Westminster's musical director, Vienna-born
Kurt List, had not found an organ that exactly met his sharp-eared requirements...
...must be a low-pressured, sweet-sounding baroque organ whose reedy stops and scintillant overtones would be similar to the sound of Bach's own playing...
...acoustics of the church must be sufficiently "sec" (dry) to let the organ sound clearly. Two years ago, a Swedish record fan sent Westminster a tape of an organ in Varfrukyrka (Our Lady's Church) in the small city of Skanninge, 180 miles south of Stockholm. The Westminster project was front-page news in Stockholm (13th CENTURY SWEDISH