Elizabeth Brown studied organ with David Thorburn at North Park College, where she graduated in 1972 with a degree in Math, and went on to a career as a CPA and attorney. For most of her career, she served as Assistant General Counsel and then General Counsel for The...
Lowell Johnson My husband, Lowell, began his life-long love of the pipe organ, and the music it could produce, at the Dutch Reformed Church in Roseland where his aunt was organist. We shared a piano background but once we’d settled in Deerfield, he began organ lessons...
William A. Crowle – 9/25/56-3/16/19 Long-time member, William A. Crowle, (Bill), 62, died peacefully in his home in Vernon Hills, IL of cancer on March 16, 2019. Bill began piano study at the age of four, and violin at 6. He attended the Eastman School of Music,...
Dr. J. Paul Cochran is organist at St. John United Church of Christ. He received piano and organ training from Jack Ruhl in Ft. Wayne, Indiana and holds a Master’s degree in Piano from the University of Redlands and a Doctor of Music in composition from Northwestern...
It seems a lifetime ago that I was just a grade school kid at St. Francis Xavier School in Wilmette. At that time, the school offered free music lessons…students would leave class and walk across the parking lot to the convent. My piano teacher, Sister Marian Celeste,...
Kirsten Santos Rutschman As the energy of fall swirls around and students return to school, I am drawn back to the whirlwind first days of my freshman year at Stanford University, where I promptly failed to make the cut for private piano study. Not to be deterred for...