Daniel Roth receives award

Johnson Organ Company, Inc., Fargo, North Dakota: Voorhees Recital Hall, Jamestown College, Jamestown, North Dakota

Levsen Organ Company, Buffalo, Iowa: St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Atlanta, Georgia

From the organbuilder

A general approach to playing ornaments and how to practice towards playing them well and comfortably, and a discussion of specific named ornaments

Finally, by mid-September, Biggs had everything safely in hand; and, within a few weeks, he had distilled the countless takes into a program for The Art of the Organ that would fill four LP sides. (See photos: Biggs editing . . . and editing . . . and editing.) In the second week of November, he received the proofs and, after giving them a critical listen, sent this exuberant note to Howard Scott, music director at Columbia Records: “The proofs are grand, and it’s certainly a wonderful achievement to get so much on the sides. Hooray, hooray!”19