March 2025

Peragallo Organ Company, Paterson, New Jersey; Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Athens, Georgia

From the builder

“Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow, or a communicated sense of fineness.”

—D. H. Lawrence

“It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.”    —Voltaire

Read part 2 here

Prologue

Thanks for the memories

John P. Brock, Jr.

John P. Brock, Jr., 83, of Knoxville, Tennessee, died November 25, 2024. He was born April 9, 1941, in Montgomery, Alabama, where he attended Forest Park Baptist Church. He began organ lessons at this church, and his parents bought a pump organ for their home. Brock accompanied the choir at the church on the organ as a teenager. He met Dinah Lee in high school, and they were married in 1963 after his college graduation.