This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ...president of the Association, Bishop James N. FitzGerald. In order to accommodate an organ of suitable size without lessening the seating room for the people or destroying the design of the choir gallery, it was found necessary to make some alterations in the front of the auditorium. The price of the organ as ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ...president of the Association, Bishop James N. FitzGerald. In order to accommodate an organ of suitable size without lessening the seating room for the people or destroying the design of the choir gallery, it was found necessary to make some alterations in the front of the auditorium. The price of the organ as originally contracted was about $13,000 (total cost to be $26,000, one half donated by Hope-Jones). An Association report says that Tali Esen Morgan, the musical director, "has already privately raised the largest part of its cost." Later on a number of friends of Mr. Yatman, previously referred to as the leader of the Young People's Temple for twenty-five years, desired to connect his name with the organ, so, at the instance of Miss Imogene Fields, the sum of $1,200 was raised, and a set of chimes were placed in the organ, to be known as the "Yatman Chimes." The first recital on the new organ was given before it was fully completed, on Friday evening, July 3, 1908, by Mark Andrews, of New York. Edwin Lenare, of England, an organist of renown, succeeded Mr. Andrews in presiding at the instrument and during the ten days of a recital convention. Thus the greatest feature of musical Ocean Grove is the great HopeJopes organ, installed in 1908. The problem at that time was to secure anhnstrument which would stand atmospheric conditions, in an auditorium unheated and closed for nine months during the year. Robert HopeJones, the organ builder, had been attracting much attention in England at the time, by means of his new and novel method of constructing organs inclosed in cement and brick chambers. Air. Tali Esen Morgan, then musical director of Ocean Grove, believed that an instrument built in this manner would stand the severe c...
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