January 2018

Nunc Dimittis

Seeing the Music

It’s about time, it’s about space . . . 

A posthumous gift from Gustav Leonardt

In 1967 I heard that there was an interesting old organ in St. Peter Catholic Church in Bordelonville, Louisiana. I went to see the organ and found a small completely encased instrument in a filagree case with a handsome inlaid nameboard indicating that it was built by Louis Debierre, Nantes.

The St. John’s Organ Society of Bangor, Maine, reached a noteworthy milepost this fall with its “silver” anniversary! The organization was established a quarter of a century ago to maintain, promote, and foster public interest in E. & G. G. Hook Opus 288 (1860), an illustrious, three-manual pipe organ in the back gallery of St. John’s Catholic Church.

Randall Dyer & 

Associates, Inc.

A. E. Schlueter Pipe Organ Company, Lithonia, Georgia

The First Baptist Church of Christ, Macon, Georgia