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REXBURG – When praise is heaped upon him, Darwin Wolford gives it back to God. “My talents are a gift that comes from heaven above,” says Wolford. Darwin Wolford’s faith in God is evident in the music he composed. The 86-year-old Rexburg local is the oldest living contributor to the current hymnbook of The Church […]
James Higdon, generally considered a world-class organist and one of the nation’s top organ teachers, will be the inaugural performer of the new Tabernacle Organ Virtuoso Performance Series in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Introduction
During their seventy-plus-year history it was customary for organs built by the Skinner Organ Company and the Aeolian-Skinner Organ Company to contain an ivory nameplate bearing the firm’s name on the console, usually on the keyslip, although there was a brief period in the early 1960s when the company name was stenciled in gold letters in a way similar to that on pianos. Astute aficionados can sometimes even determine the era in which the organ was built by carefully examining the subtle differences in type styles that were used over the years.