VOX3CATOE

RON RHODE  to appear
at Rockford"s CORONADO

On Sunday March 25,  2001, at 2:30 PM The Land of Lincoln Theatre Organ Society presents Ron Rhode at the Barton Pipe Organ for their first public show since the reopening of the recently renovated Coronado Theatre at 300 E. Elm Street, Rockford Illinois
Seating is open, Cost: $10.00 advance, $12.00 day of the show. Tickets are available from the Rockford Metro Center , The Coronado box office or any member of LOLTOS. children under 9 free. Advanced ticket sale available on-line from the Metrocentre, which is the new management of the Coronado at either http://www.metrocentre.com or http://www.coronadotheatre.com The theatre seats about 2200, so it is not anticipated that it will be sold out. Coronado Box Office: (815) 968-5222

We wish to vthank LOLTOS members Bob Bates and Duane Austin for the show information.

FORMER NORTOWN WurliTzer moves to Witchita

The late Dr. Bruce Belshaw purchased and removed the organ from the Nortown Theatre on N. Western Ave in the late fifties and built a home to house it in Colorado.  Installation  even included the organ lift which transported  the organist from the basement up into the music room. JATOE members visited the Belshaw home and heard the organ when they visited Denver on their train trip last year.  The organ, a Balaban 3 WurliTzer was installed in the Nortown in 1931 and was probably one of the last new theatre organs in Chicago. After Dr. Belshaws death last year, the organ and home was offered for sale.
The organ was originally a 3/15 enlarged  by Dr, Belshaw to a 3/22  with the addition of more WurliTzer pipework .
The organ was purchased by Witchita Theatre Organ, Inc. (the owner of the organ in Century II  from the NY Paramount)                 Witchita's Michael Coup said the organ is in such beautiful condition and such a jewel of an instrument he wanted to make sure it was preserved. Plans are to find a suitable venue, such as a restaurant (but definitely not  a

VINTAGE REGINALD FOORT
RECORDING NOW AVAILABLE ON CD
Reginald Foort recording made on the Touring Moller before WW2 have been re-released on CD and  Is available from Organ Historical Society
Recorded 1938-40 for the distinguished HMV label and well  transferred to the digital medium, these performances on the 5m  touring organ weighing 30 tons and built in Maryland for Britain's most popular organist are sure to please Foort fans and collectors  as well.
Selections include:
When Irish Eyes Are Smiling, With a Smile and a Song,
Smile  Darn You Smile, Keep Smiling, Sunshine of Your Smile, Smiling  Through, Pack Up Your Troubles, Soldiers in the Park, Queen of   My Heart, The Last Waltz, Yip I Addy I ay,
The Only Way, What  Do You Do Sunday Mary,
Our Love Affair, All the Things You Are,    The Temple Bells, Less Than the Dust, Kashmiri Song, I've Got No   Strings,  When You Wish Upon a Star, Hi Diddle Dee Dee, 
Last   Time I Saw Paris, HMS Pinafore selections..

There are 2 CDs of this organ currently available with  the other
Featuring Piet van Egmond at  Foort's Touring Möller  in the BBC studio
CDs can be ordered on-line  from the OHS catalog at http://www.organsociety.org or
From the Organ Historical Society,
Box 26811
Richmond, Va 23261
(800)  353-9926 (real people 9:30 to 5P EST M-F)