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Dudley Buck: Leader of a Forgotten Tradition . 10 of the organ is changed from its original character, especially on N. Lee Orr Provides an Overview of This Influential Musician antique organs. So, what does all of this mean? I recall a remark by one of my Sheep, Gin, &.. the Telegraphic Crescendo Freaks . 23 teachers, Gustav Leonhardt, many years ago. Referring to a perfor­ David Francis Urrows Finds an Hilarious Parody of Oliver mance practice question in a florid chorale of Bach which I was Wendell Holmes' Description of the Boston Music Hall Organ playing, he said, "Only their ghosts know for sure how they played A True Tale as Incredible as a Fairy Tale . 25 this." I have never forgotten that remark. The fact is that we can Susan Tattershall Reveals the Three Incarnations of the never replicate either the interpretation of music or the sounds of William Redstone Organ at Trinity Church, Geneva, New York musical instruments of the past. It may be one of the marks of Reviews ....................... 6 human genius that some sort of individuality remains despite our The American Musical Landscape, a Book by Richard Crawford, best efforts to copy things exactly. Yet, we now have the technology Reviewed by John Ogasapian to come very close to exact copies via the very kind of machine on The Old South Brass, Organ & Tympani, a CD on the Skinner which I am doing this word processing task. Perhaps it is the knowledge that we are close to maldng clones of almost everything organ at Old South, Boston, Reviewed by Jonathan Ambrosino we wish that drives us toward what we believe is authenticity both Biggs Fellowship 5 in performance and in the construction of musical instruments. Obituaries 6 This leaves me wondering if the matter of integrityshould be of Organ
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