The Leupold Foundation announces a new book, Pioneers in American Organ Music 1860–1920, The New England Classicists (LE300003, $69), by Barbara Owen. The volume is a comprehensive discussion of the beginning of classical organ music in the United States with biographies of nine of the first and most prominent American composers for the organ: John Knowles Paine, Dudley Buck, W. Eugene Thayer, George E. Whiting, Samuel B. Whitney, W. Arthur Foote, George W. Chadwick, Horatio W. Parker, and Henry M. Dunham.