2022 Pipe Organ Calendar
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Concert Hall Organs in the United States
Pipe organs in American concert halls are nothing new in the annals of music history. In 1763, Bostonian Stephen Deblois ordered an organ from the renowned London maker, John Snetzler, for his music hall on Queen Street. During the nineteenth century, one looks no further than the great four-manual organ by E. & G.G. Hook of 1864 in Mechanics’ Hall Worcester, or the handsome three-manual Odell organ of 1890 in the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall. Then there is the Great Organ, as it came to be known, from the old Boston Music Hall, currently in Methuen, Massachusetts. During the twentieth century, concert-hall organs proliferated across the United States by such great American builders as Lynn Dobson, C.B. Fisk, M.P. Möller, E.M. Skinner, and Michael Quimby. What is new, however, is the 2022 OHS calendar, featuring spectacular, high-resolution imagery, captured predominantly by our own Len Levasseur, showing many American concert-hall organs in some never-before seen photographs.
OHS Online Membership Event
Watch the October 12 OHS Membership Information Zoom Meeting.
A Breath of Fresh Air
Imagine watching a 200-year old organ, broken, tattered, and forgotten coming to life again. Imagine seeing craftsmen and historians working together on a neglected instrument, restoring it to glory piece by piece. Imagine gazing at its transformation into an historically accurate serviceable organ. Now, imagine hearing that instrument played for the first time in generations!
You can make these imaginations come true. Join us as we attempt to create A Breath of Fresh Air for the 1817 Hilbus Cabinet Organ.
Kaleidoscope of Colors
Order your Program Book
NOW REDUCED TO ORDER FOR $20, this is the complete Program Book for Summer 2021’s KALEIDOSCOPE OF COLORS, a virtual Convention over five Sundays in August that each featured three instruments — a total of 15 pipe organs across the USA. Book includes full-color photos, well-researched essays on each instrument, performers’ biographies as well their complete, imaginative programs designed for each instrument, and information covering three centuries of pipe organ building in the USA.
Watch the Series
OHSLA TODAY
New Episode! Stories of Ephemera (Part 1)
Bynum brings us into the Library’s collection of ephemera.
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LIVE FROM STONELEIGH
Robert McCormick
Another installment in the organ recital series from the Organ Historical Society’s headquarters in Villanova, Pennsylvania.
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OHS Annual
Fund Drive
Help support operating expenses of OHS programs and services.
Sustaining Membership
Join Today!
The OHS is pleased to offer a Sustaining Member category. For as little as $10 per month, you can support the OHS grow stronger and more responsive to the pipe organ community. OHS and you – sustaining a lifetime of history.
Big Things
Are Happening!
Celebrate the
re-opening
of the OHS Catalog
OHS News
Breaking News
OHSLA List of Books and Pamphlets Needed
OHSLA List of Books and Pamphlets Needed
Download a PDF of this list from the OHSLA.
Columbus Convention Postponed to 2022
OHS 2020 Convention
Postponed until 2022
After lengthy and careful negotiations, the OHS and the Hilton Columbus Hotel have agreed to postpone the 2020 convention, pushing back to 2022. We are most grateful to their management team for coming to these terms without penalty to the OHS. Each person who registered for the convention has been contacted by telephone and/or email regarding this issue.
The Hunt for Rare Organ Books
New OHS Phone Number 484.488.PIPE (7473)
As of March 1, 2019 OHS has a brand new telephone number to reflect our residency in Pennsylvania. While the old number will work for a while, please take note:
484.488.PIPE (7473). Four foots and eight foots with no mixtures but it works!
Youth Advisory Panel Gets Underway
Youth Advisory Panel Gets Underway
Read their first letter to the membership.
Upcoming Events
The Tracker
OHS publishes its journal four times a year. The Tracker includes news and articles about the organ and its history, organbuilders, exemplary organs, regional surveys of instruments, and the music played on the organ. The emphasis is on American organ topics of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, and there are occasional articles on European topics. Most issues run 48 pages with many illustrations and photographs.
Dear Friend of the Organ –
A New Opportunity
Think about the pleasure you will receive in offering an OHS membership to a friend or relative. You can share your love of the pipe organ and introduce someone else to the good works of the Society in educating, preserving and chronicling our rich organ heritage and culture. Memberships make splendid gifts. The recipient will receive a subscription to our quarterly magazine, The Tracker, a special gift and all the benefits of membership, including members’ prices on many items in the OHS Catalog.
The OHS Mission Statement
The Organ Historical Society celebrates, preserves, and studies the pipe organ in America in all its historic styles, through research, education, advocacy, and music.
The Organ Historical Society
330 North Spring Mill Road
Villanova, PA 19085 – 1737
(484) 488-PIPE (7473)
info@organhistoricalsociety.org