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Virgil Fox (The Dish): An Irreverent Biography of the Great American Organist based on a memoir by Ted Alan Worth (Hard cover) - by Richard Torrence and Marshall Yaeger

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Virgil Fox (The Dish): An Irreverent Biography of the Great American Organist based on a memoir by Ted Alan Worth (Hard cover) - by Richard Torrence and Marshall Yaeger

$40.00

Dr. J. Butz, 432 pgs, hardcover, thread stitching, ribbon page marker, with illustrations, musical examples and dispositions, short English and French summaries, with CD

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Festschrift: Daniel Roth Licht im Dunkel (Lumière dans les ténèbres) - by Birger Petersen

$75.00

For the span of 100 years, Peter, Theodore, and J. Fred Wolle formed an American musical dynasty. While each musician was rooted in the Moravian musical tradition, their influence extended beyond the Moravian Church and became a major force in Bach performance in America.
Paul S. Larson received a BS in MusEd from Mansfield University and an MA from Eastman also in MusEd. Hee has a DMA from Temple. He is a professor emeritus of Moravian College where he taught music ed, on-Western music, ad music history
Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press; Rosemont Publishing, 2002; 425 pgs, hardcover

An American Musical Dynasty: A Biography of the Wolle Family of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania - by Paul S. Larson

$25.00

This anthology presents many of the literary expressions from writers who have tried to capture the magic of the organ for more than 2000 years-in poetry and prose, in stories, in factual and fictional accounts, in simile, and in metaphor. Literature by approximately 100 different authors, from Geoffrey Chaucer to Emily Dickinson, to Garrison Keillor, George Bernard Shaw, and Virgil Thomson, among others, are linked with commentary, background, and biographical information. This is a book with a wide variety of moods, just as the organ is an instrument with a wide variety of sounds. All are sure to appeal to the lover of our favorite, gloriously melodic instrument.
Scarecrow Press, 2000; 210 pgs, hardcover

Scarecrow Press

Wond'rous Machine: A Literary Anthology Celebrating the Organ - by Robert N. Roth

$125.00

Strengholt Publishing, 1996; 542 pgs, soft cover, in Dutch

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Orgels bij de omroep in Nederland - by Cor L. Doesburg

$75.00

Matthias Schneider and Jürgen Heering, Buxtehude-Studien, Band 1

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Matthias Schneider and Jürgen Heering, Buxtehude-Studien, Band 1

$30.00

This autobiography by Alfred Hollins gives a flowing account of the life of this eminent blind concert organist, pianist, and composer; who was soloist with the Berlin, London, and New York Philharmonic Orchestras, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Tracing his life from his birth in Hull in 1865, and describing his three North American Tours, and those in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.

Alfred Hollins, 1936, reprinted 2018 by Forgotten Books; softcover, 478 pgs.

Banks Music Publications

A Blind Musician Looks Back: An Autobiography - by Alfred Hollins

$34.95

James Lewis is an organist, organ historian and commercial photographer. He has researched the organs of California for over thirty-five years and has published articles on the subject in several periodicals. A fascinating exploration of the instruments that emerged in California in the nineteenth century following the 1848 Gold Rush.

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Pipe Organs of Northern California by James Lewis

$19.95

OHS Press, 2016; 276 pgs, softcover

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OHS Philadelphia 2016 Diamond Jubilee Commemorative Anthology - compiled by Rollin Smith

$34.95