OHS Gifts - Page 3

This unique album is full of fascinating photographs which will be enjoyed by connoisseurs both of organs and of architecture; in contrast to the many volumes containing pictures of the organs only, the cases of major instruments are for the first time presented here in the larger spatial context of the vaulting and ceilings around them - after all, in many instances, they were created together in perfect harmony. The result is gripping pictures which make it possible to appreciate some amazing architectural achievements and instrument designs during the last 500 years, and which unfailingly fill the onlooker with awe and wonder.
Dr. J. Butz, 2015, 64 pgs, hard cover

Butz

Dem Himmel Nahe: Faszinierende Blicke auf Orgeln und Gewölbe (Looking up at Organs and Ceilings) - by Jenny Setchell

$46.98

This domestic drama/comedy finds a venerable, blind organist terminated after 25 years service due to his “innocently priming himself” with drink before playing his service voluntaries. He is, without knowing it, succeeded by his daughter’s fiance, and their conversations provide part of the play’s comedy. Henry Arthur Jones (1851-1929) was a prominent playwright in his time, and a contemporary of Shaw and Wilde. With four characters and about a half-hour in length, The Old Organist will make a fine meeting program for many, and an entertaining read for the rest of us.
OHS Press, reprinted in 2010, 28 pgs, softbound

Organ Historical Society

The Old Organist - by Henry A. Jones

$14.95

The OHS Book of Organ Poems - collected and edited by Dr. Rollin Smith

Organ Historical Society

The OHS Book of Organ Poems - collected and edited by Dr. Rollin Smith

$18.00

302 pages, large format, hardbound, published by the Friends of the Wanamaker Organ.

Friends of the Wanamaker Organ

Music in the Marketplace: The Wanamaker Organ - by Ray Biswanger (Friends of the Wanamaker Organ)

$35.00

Larry Biser's biography of an incredible woman who headed the organ department at Westminster Choir College and enjoyed a storied career as performer, teacher and interpreter.

Organ Historical Society

Joan Lippincott: The Gift of Music - by Larry G. Biser

$24.95

OHS member Doug Johnson has compiled 23 pages of delightful verses (Saint Cecelia invited to Tea / Virgil Fox, Power Biggs, and me . . .) in this softbound volume.
MorningStar Music, 1993; 23 pgs, softcover

Morning Star Music Publishers

Limericks for Organists - compiled and edited by Doug Johnson

$5.50