While people likely associate the pipe organ with slow hymns in church, the instrument is far more capable.The pipe organ, believed to have Greek origins around the third century B.C., is consid
Byron Lloyd Blackmore died January 1 in Sun City West, Arizona. He was born March 24, 1935, in Flint, Michigan. In 1953 he graduated from Flushing High School, Flushing, Michigan, where he was valedictorian of his senior class. He was an active high school musician and piano accompanist for several choral groups, becoming a church organist in 1950, when he was a freshman.
The First Congregational Church of Crystal Lake is honored to welcome acclaimed organist Stephen Buzard to perform on the seventh Wesley and Marie Ann Vos Memorial Organ Recital.
Paul S. Hesselink, 82, died May 1. Born on June 6, 1940, in Mitchell, South Dakota, he had been a resident of Las Vegas, Nevada, since 1993. He had previously lived in Iowa, Nebraska, Washington, Michigan, Ohio, Colorado, and Virginia.