Daniel Roth receives award

Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, Pennsylvania

From the builder

John-Paul Buzard Pipe Organ Builders, Champaign, Illinois,
has built a new organ for St. George's Episcopal Church, Belleville, Illinois.
The firm's opus 19 comprises 26 stops, 32 ranks on two manuals and pedal in a
free-standing white oak case.

A Performer's Investigation, Part 2

Part 1 of this article appeared in the January issue, pp. 16-18.

One of the most famous organbuilding "schools" in
Italy was founded in Venice during the first part of the eighteenth century by
Pietro Nacchini, a monk from Dalmatia.1 He established a factory and built over
300 organs mainly for the territories of the Republic of Venice,2 and for the
Vatican State, which at the time comprised the largest portion of central
Italy.  Although his designated successor was Francesco Dacci, with no doubt his most famous pupil was Gaetano Callido, born in Este, near Padova, who established hi