For this week’s show we went over to Highland, Illinois to talk with Mark Wick, President of the Wicks Organ Company to find out about the upcoming auction and the future of this more-than-100 year-old organbuilder. Listen to it here:
- Music heard in this episode:
- Edwin Shippen Barnes
Solemn Prelude, op. 24
Simon Nieminski
The Organ Symphonies of Edward Shippen Barnes – Pro Organo CD 7131
1937 III/57 Wicks – St. Mary’s Cathedral, Peoria, Illinois
We also went over to Highland for this auction to talk to some attendees and see what an organ company auction looks like. Here’s a video of that day:
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