Ton Koopman to play restored Beckerath at Cleveland's Trinity Lutheran

Robert E. Fort, Jr., Timothy J. Oliver, Michel Pinte, Travis R. Powell, Robert Wendell Robe, Mary Landon Russell

Perhaps it is a good idea to state right away that there are
several goals which may be served by a report on the AGO 2000 convention in
Seattle, Washington. The first is to validate the experience of those who were
there, the second is to describe and interpret the events that took place for
those who could not attend, and the third is to mention the word
"millennial" only once! A convention report is like
"Highlights of the Opera"--hopefully the important arias are
there for all to hear. Alas, it is impossible to tell the whole story, and
surely some events will be left out all together.

For over two centuries, St. Catherine’s, one of the
five principal churches of Hamburg built in 1250, had an organ historically
associated with Scheidemann, Reincken and J. S. Bach. Until its destruction in
1943 during World War II, it was among the foremost instruments in northern
Europe.