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The circuit also includes concerts in Haifa, Ra’anana, and Tel Aviv. The finale at the Tel Aviv Museum on June 4 (8:30 p.m.) will also be available via streaming on the ensemble’s web site. 

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.

The composer, conductor, former Temple Emanu-El music director, and longtime teacher also has lessons for us about the importance of creativity to a well-enjoyed life.

On September 22–23, 2023, the high school division competition of the Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival Hartford (ASOFH) was held. Daniel Colaner is winner.

Byron Lloyd Blackmore died January 1 in Sun City West, Arizona. He was born March 24, 1935, in Flint, Michigan. In 1953 he graduated from Flushing High School, Flushing, Michigan, where he was valedictorian of his senior class. He was an active high school musician and piano accompanist for several choral groups, becoming a church organist in 1950, when he was a freshman. 

John Bishop remembers Brian E. Jones, longtime organist and choir director at Trinity Church, Copley Square, Boston.

SIR – Surely the purpose of the Covid Inquiry (Leading Article, December 8) should be to establish how and where the virus started; how well Britain responded to it; and, relative to other nations, the mistakes made and how to do better next time. What we actually hear is a load of deeply personalised questioning, with little apparent purpose beyond blaming and condemning individual people – none of them medical, which is rather puzzling.

Robert McCormick continues his series on interviews with organ improvisators, this being part 3, with Dorothy Papadakos.

Thursday Entertainment Notes

Here's who won prizes for the most beautiful, most original, and most comical men's sleeping apparel at the 1933 Pajamarino.