FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE					April 25, 1995

Lawrence Dedication Recital Features George Damp, Organ

	Six years of planning and 40,000 hours of labor have culminated in the
completion of Lawrence University's new musical masterpiece, a John Brombaugh
mechanical organ, Opus 33.  The organ will be officially unveiled Friday, May 5
in a dedication recital offered by Lawrence University organist George Damp at 8
p.m. in the Memorial Chapel.  The event is free and open to the public.

	Included on the program are works by J. S. Bach, Jehan Alain, Georg
Muffat, Francois Couperin, Felix Mendelssohn, Johannes Brahms, and Lawrence composer Robert
Below.

	Built by John Brombaugh and associates of Eugene, Oregon, the
architectural design of Lawrence's new organ was suggested by the organ at
Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford, England.  It contains nearly 2,500 pipes and
10,000 individual parts.  One of its most distinctive features is the position
of the positive pipes in front of the main case.  The 168 keys are hand-carved
from cow bone and ebony.  Future opportunities to hear this magnificent new
instrument include a June recital during Lawrence's Reunion Weekend and next
year's Artist Series, which will feature Douglas Major, organist at the National
Cathedral in Washington, D.C., accompanied by the Empire Brass.

	A member of the faculty since 1984, Lawrence University organist George 
Edward Damp teaches courses in music history, organ, and harpsichord.  He holds
the bachelor of arts degree in music and the master of arts degree in musicology
from Cornell University, and the doctor of musical arts degree in organ
performance from the Eastman School of Music, where he was a student of Russell
Saunders.  He is currently organist at Grace Episcopal Church in Sheboygan.  In
addition to his work with the Brombaugh organ, Damp has also been instrumental
in bringing a restored 1816 Broadwood piano to Lawrence, a project which also
involves Edward Swenson of Ithaca, New York, a specialist in the restoration of
antique pianos.  The piano Lawrence has acquired is identical in every
regard-except decoration-to the Broadwood piano used by Beethoven to compose his
late piano sonatas opp. 106, 109, 110, and 111.  When it arrives in Wisconsin
from Professor Swenson's workshop in New York, Lawrence's Broadwood piano will
be the only one of its kind in North America and one of the very few like it in
the world.   


 
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