Collected material deals specifically with American organ composers, filling a bibliographical need for organists and scholars of organ music. Citations include a short biography, biographical source data, and a bibliographical notation.

About the Author

Sharon L. Hettinger (née Simons) was born in Michigan and now lives in Lawrence, Kansas, with her husband Lyle.  She earned the M.M. in church music in 1989 and D.M.A. in organ in 1993, University of Kansas.  She also had received the B.M. in church music at Westminster Choir College in 1978, where she won the Alexander McCurdy organ competition four years earlier.  Her organ teachers include Walter R. Ginter, Donald McDonald, and James Higdon.  She has been organist and choir director in Mobile, Alabama, Durham, North Carolina, and also played recitals in New Jersey, North Carolina, Alabama, Missouri, and Michigan, in addition to Kansas.  She has been dean of the Topeka chapter, and now is the AGO convener for the state of Kansas.  In the fall of 1995 she held a temporary position teaching organ and music theory at Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas.  Presently she is copywriter for the concert series of the Lied Center, University of Kansas, and organist and associate director of music, Christ Episcopal Church, in the Kansas City suburb of Overland Park.

DSMB 77 / 370p / 0-89990-076-3 / Hardcover /  1997 / $20.00 / OUT OF STOCK