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John J. Mitchell chronicles the work of the Puget organ building family of Toulouse, France, in the first part of the 2024 Gruenstein Award article.

Carolyn Shuster Fournier discusses César Franck's organ pedagogy.

The Leupold Foundation announces a new book, Pioneers in American Organ Music 1860–1920, The New England Classicists (LE300003, $69), by Barbara Owen. The volume is a comprehensive discussion of the beginning of classical organ music in the United States with biographies of nine of the first and most prominent American composers for the organ: John Knowles Paine, Dudley Buck, W. Eugene Thayer, George E. Whiting, Samuel B. Whitney, W. Arthur Foote, George W. Chadwick, Horatio W. Parker, and Hen...

Classical Voice of North Carolina), Michael Delfín is a versatile performer of historical keyboard instruments and the modern piano. Michael is the recipient of the 2018 Historical Keyboard Society of North America Bechtel/Clinkscale Scholarship and 2017 Catacoustic Consort Early Music Grant. He has performed for the Historical Keyboard Society of North America and the Central California Baroque Festival and has given lectures on historical performance topics for Early Music America, HKSNA, a...