educated at the St. Louis Country Day gil Fox and other leading artists. He Nunc Dimittis School, Oberlin College, and Ohio State worked with Rodgers Organ Company University, and he completed advanced and Fratelli Ruffatti, handling market- musical study at Syracuse and North- ing, public relations, advertising, product James G. Chapman, retired Univer- western universities. His organ teachers development, and sales until 1976, when sity of Vermont Choral Union conductor included Grigg Fountain, Leo Holden, the concert management grew into a and longtime music professor, died Feb- Wilbur Held, and Arthur Poister. He production company. By 1983, Torrence ruary 8. He was 83. Born and raised in taught organ at Houghton College (NY), was developing high-visibility fund-rais- Manistee, Michigan, Chapman studied served as director of music at Kenmore ing events for such clients as UNICEF, at the University of Michigan, where he Methodist Church (NY) and as organist Dance Theatre of Harlem, New York earned his bachelor’s degree in music in and choirmaster at the Church of the As- City Opera, and the American Founda- 1949 and master’s in 1950. He began as cension in . tion for AIDS Research (AmFAR). Ce- a church organist while a teenager, and He leaves no immediate survivors, but lebrities he worked with included Eliza- later taught at Flora MacDonald Col- his gentle spirit was infectious, result- beth Taylor, , Mstislav lege in Red Springs, North Carolina, but ing in a multitude of friendships from Rostropovich, Eartha Kitt, Van Cliburn, was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1951. all walks of life. As a mentor to young Madonna, William F. Buckley Jr., Ted Though trained in cryptographic work, musicians, he became an icon of car- Turner, Jane Fonda, and Michael York. he was assigned as an organist and assis- ing, always offering encouragement and During a trip to Russia in 1992, Rich- tant choir director for the Far East Com- concern. He was a prolifi c letter-writer, Richard Torrence ard Torrence became acquainted with mand Chapel Center in Tokyo (1951–53). known to friends all over the country for Anatoly Sobchak, Mayor of St. Peters- He served from 1953–59 as the organist his distinctive prose. ner Marshall Yeager, Torrence promoted burg, and became Advisor to the Mayor and choir director at St. Luke’s Episcopal A memorial celebration of his life was Virgil Fox’s “Heavy Organ” initiative of St. Petersburg on International Proj- Church in Forest Hills, New York. held at the Church of the Ascension, Chi- back in the 1960s and 70s. He guided the ects, 1992–96, facilitating cultural proj- Chapman taught music at Middle- cago, on March 5. Memorial gifts may career of Ted Alan Worth, collaborated ects and investment opportunities in the bury College from 1959 to 1963 and was be made to the Endowment Fund of the with the Rodgers and Ruffatti organ Petersburg region. During his tenure he one of 40 music teachers selected for a American Guild of Organists, 475 River- companies, commissioned Fox’s “Black helped raise $1.3-million for city dental Danforth Teacher Grant in 1963–64. side Dr., Suite 1260, New York, NY 10115, Beauty” touring organ, co-authored the programs, and attracted the Wm. Wrig- In 1964, he fi nished his Ph.D. in musi- or to North Shore University Health Sys- irreverent biography, Virgil Fox: The ley Jr. Co. to St. Petersburg to build a cology at New York University. He also tem Foundation, 1033 University Place, Dish, shepherded the “Virgil Fox Lega- $70-million factory. Vladimir Putin was served as a guest conductor for the Ver- Suite 450, Evanston, IL 60201. cy,” godfathered the ‘virtual organ’, and Torrence’s immediate superior during mont Symphony Orchestra and led tours —Morgan Simmons encouraged Cameron Carpenter. this time. Torrence had twice produced to Europe. Evanston, Illinois Richard Torrence earned a Bachelor the St. Petersburg Festival of American In 1968, Chapman was the founder of Science degree from the University of Films, and in 1998 he designed and mar- and director of the UVM Choral Union. Richard Torrence, promoter and Wisconsin-Madison in 1958. He moved keted Le Club, a business and profes- Chapman teamed up with UVM Eng- manager, died February 6 following a to New York and established a concert sional complex with two restaurants and lish professor Betty Bandel in February stroke. With his colleague and life-part- management in 1963, representing Vir- special events facilities. 1973 to release the record album “Ver- mont Harmony” that featured music by Vermont composers between 1790 and ANDOVER BEDIENT BERGHAUS BIGELOW BOND BUZARD

1810. Three years later, Chapman and GARLAND GOULDING & WOOD HENDRICKSON FISK DYER R. DOBSON CASAVANT FRERES Bandel released “Vermont Harmony II” with the works of Hezekiah Moors and Jeremiah Ingalls, and “Vermont

Harmony III” appeared in 1986. Chap- & man—along with Mel Kaplan and Bill Metcalfe—helped create the Vermont Mozart Festival in 1973. Chapman was

selected to perform the inaugural recital BOODY TAYLOR on the Vedder Van Dyck memorial organ in the new St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral in Burlington in 1974. SCHANTZ SCHOENSTEIN FRITTS

Roy Kehl

Musician, scholar, and philanthropist The Future of Church Music Roy Frederic Kehl died at his home RICHARDS-FOWKES in Evanston, Illinois, on February 12 at the age of 75 after a valiant 24-year battle is in These Fingers with cancer. A Fellow of the American Guild of Organists, Kehl was a member of the Bishop’s Advisory Commission Share a 10 year-old’s sense of wonder as she first touches an organ’s keys! Delight in of Church Music of the Diocese (Epis- copal) of Chicago. He also served as a a 12 year-old’s steady concentration, as he learns the pedals. Watch a 14 year old member of the Hymn Music Committee mature before your eyes during his first recital! of the Episcopal Church, making many contributions to The Hymnal 1982. Young people are forever changed when they play the pipe organ! Join APOBA in sup- His generosity was extensive, benefi t- ing his chosen interests: the American porting AGO outreach programs to the next generation of organists! Guild of Organists and the North Shore University Health System, where he endowed the gastroenterology labora- tory. At considerable personal expense, he conducted exhaustive research at the To receive information about pipe organs Steinway piano facilities in New York and recognized pipe organ builders and became the world’s foremost au- thority on the history of Steinway & Sons AP write or call toll free 1-800-473-5270 piano production. Outside of his musi- or on the web @ www.apoba.com cal interests, Kehl was also a train and PASI Associated Pipe Organ Builders of America mass-transit enthusiast, and maintained BO a signifi cant collection of historical docu- A P.O. Box 155 • Chicago Ridge, Illinois 60415 ments and photographs of the mass tran-

sit systems of Chicago and St. Louis. OTT QUIMBY PARSONS REDMAN The only child of F. Arthur and El- eanor McFarland Kehl, he was born on NOACK MURPHY LéTOURNEAU KEGG JAECKEL HOLTKAMP November 22, 1935 in St. Louis. He was

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