The Baldwin Piano Company was the largest US-based manufacturer of keyboard instruments, most notably pianos. It is presently a subsidiary of the Gibson Guitar Corporation, although it ceased domestic production of pianos in December 2008.^[1]

History[link]

The company can trace its origins back to 1857, when Dwight Hamilton Baldwin began teaching piano, organ, and violin in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1862, Baldwin started a Decker Brothers piano dealership and, in 1866, hired Lucien Wulsin as a clerk. Wulsin became a partner in the dealership, by then known as D.H. Baldwin & Company, in 1873, and, under his leadership, the Baldwin Company became the largest piano dealer in the Midwestern United States by the 1890s.

In 1889–1890, Baldwin vowed to build "the best piano that could be built"^[2] and subsequently formed two production companies: Hamilton Organ, which built reed organs, and the Baldwin Piano Company, which made pianos. The company's first piano, an upright, began selling in 1891. The company introduced its first grand piano in 1895.

Baldwin died in 1899 and left his estate to fund missionary causes. Wulsin ultimately purchased Baldwin's estate and continued the company's shift from retail to manufacturing. The company won its first major award in 1900, when their model 112 won the Grand Prix at the Exposition Universelle in Paris, the first American manufactured piano to win such an award. Baldwin-manufactured pianos also won top awards at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition and the 1914 Anglo-American Exposition. By 1913, business had become brisk, with Baldwin exporting to thirty-two countries in addition to having retailers throughout the United States.

Baldwin, like many other manufacturers, began building player pianos in the 1920s. A piano factory was constructed in Cincinnati, Ohio. The models became unpopular by the end of the 1920s, which, coupled with the beginning of the Great Depression, could have spelled disaster for Baldwin. However, the company's president, Lucien Wulsin II, had created a large reserve fund for such situations, and Baldwin was able to ride out the market downturn.

During World War II, the US War Production Board ordered the cessation of all US piano manufacturing so that the factories could be used for the US war effort. Baldwin factories were used to manufacture plywood airplane components for various aircraft such as the Aeronca PT-23 trainer and the stillborn Curtiss-Wright C-76 Caravan cargo aircraft. While the employment of wood components in military aircraft could by no means be considered a resounding success, lessons learned in constructing plywood aircraft wings ultimately assisted in Baldwin's development of its 41-ply maple pinblock design used in its postwar piano models.^[3]

After the war ended, Baldwin resumed selling pianos, and by 1953 the company had doubled production figures from prewar levels. In 1946, Baldwin introduced its first electronic organ (developed in 1941),^[4] which became so successful that the company changed its name to the Baldwin Piano & Organ Company. In 1961, Lucien Wulsin III became president. By 1963, the company had acquired C. Bechstein Pianofortefabrik and remained its owner until 1986. In 1965, Baldwin constructed a new piano manufacturing plant in Conway, Arkansas, originally to manufacture upright pianos: by 1973, the company had built 1,000,000 upright pianos.

The company next attempted to capitalize on the growth of pop music. After an unsuccessful bid to buy Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, Baldwin bought Burns of London in 1965 for $380,000, and began selling the guitars through the company's piano retail outlets. Unused to marketing guitars, the Baldwin stores failed to interest many guitar buyers, and sales proved disappointing.^[5] In 1967, Baldwin also bought Gretsch guitars, which had its own experienced guitar sales force and a distribution network of authorized retail outlets. However, Fender and Gibson continued to dominate, and sales did not reach expected levels. The Gretsch guitar operation was sold back to the Gretsch family in 1989.

Throughout the 1970s, the company undertook a significant bid to diversify into financial services. Under the leadership of Morley P. Thompson, Baldwin bought dozens of firms and by the early 1980s owned over 200 savings and loan institutions, insurance companies and investment firms. In 1980, the company opened a new piano manufacturing facility in Trumann, Arkansas.^[6] By 1982, however, the piano business contributed only three percent of Baldwin's $3.6 billion revenues. Meanwhile, the company had taken on significant debt to finance its acquisitions and new facilities, and was finding it increasingly difficult to meet its loan obligations. In 1983, the company was forced into bankruptcy with a total debt of over $9 billion—at that time, the largest bankruptcy ever.

During bankruptcy proceedings in 1984, the Baldwin piano business was sold to its management.^[7] The new company went public in 1986 as the Baldwin Piano and Organ Company.^[8] The company went private again when it was sold to an investment group in 1993 for approximately $62 million.^[9]

However, difficulties continued as demographic changes and foreign competition slowed sales of keyboard instruments. The company responded by acquiring Wurlitzer to increase market share and by moving manufacturing overseas to reduce production costs. The company moved its headquarters from Loveland, Ohio^[10] to Mason, Ohio. Throughout the 1990s, the company's fortunes improved, and by 1998, the company's 270 employees at its Conway, Arkansas facility were building 2,200 grand pianos a year. However, in 2001, Baldwin was again facing difficulties, and filed for bankruptcy once again, when the company was bought by Gibson Guitar Corporation.^[11] In 2005, the company laid off some workers from its Trumann, Arkansas manufacturing plant while undergoing restructuring.^[6]

The company, now a subsidiary of Gibson Guitar Corporation, has manufactured instruments under the Baldwin, Chickering, Wurlitzer, Hamilton, and Howard names. Baldwin has bought two piano factories in China in which they are manufacturing grand and vertical pianos. Recreations of the former US built verticals are built at its factory in Zhongshan, China. These include the Baldwin Hamilton studio models B243 and B247 which are the most popular school pianos ever built.^[12] The much larger factory in Dongbei is building grands and verticals of many new models.^[13] All new pianos are being sold under the Baldwin name and not Wurlitzer, Hamilton or Chickering.^[13]

In December 2008, Baldwin ceased most manufacturing of new pianos at its Trumann, Arkansas factory. They have retained a small staff to build custom grands and to finish numerous artist grands which are ordered.^[1] They are planning to continue production of the pianos as demand picks up.

Notable performers[link]

Many distinguished musicians have chosen to compose, perform and record using Baldwin pianos, including the pianists Walter Gieseking, Claudio Arrau, Jorge Bolet, Earl Wild, Mike Shinoda and José Iturbi and the composers Philip Glass, Igor Stravinsky, Béla Bartók, Leonard Bernstein and John Williams. Baldwin pianos have been used by popular entertainers including Amy Lee, Liberace, Clay Aiken, Ben Folds, Richard Carpenter, and Carly Simon, and jazz pianists Dave Brubeck and Dick Hyman.^[14]

General references[link]

• Crombie, David. Piano: Evolution, Design, and Performance. Barnes and Noble, 2000. First printed by Balafon Books, Great Britain, 1995. (ISBN 0-7607-2026-6)
• Baldwin Piano & Organ Company Encyclopedia of Company Histories. Answers.com. Accessed March 1, 2007.

References[link]

1. ^ ^{a b} "Baldwin ceases production, lays off workers". Trumann Democrat. December 8, 2008. Archived from the original on 2012-03-19. http://www.trumanndemocrat.com/story/1484097.html. Retrieved 2009-02-11. 
2. ^ "Baldwin Pianos". Baldwin Piano. http://www.search.com/reference/Baldwin_Piano_Company/. Retrieved 2007-05-31. 
3. ^ Gibson Guitar Corporation, Baldwin Division, About Baldwin http://www.search.com/reference/Baldwin_Piano_Company
4. ^ Hans-Joachim Braun (1982). Music Engineers. The Remarkable Career of Winston E. Kock, Electronic Organ Designer and NASA Chief of Electronics. CHE2004 of IEEE. http://www.ieee.org/portal/cms_docs_iportals/iportals/aboutus/history_center/conferences/che2004/Braun.pdf. 
5. ^ Gjörde, Per (2001). Pearls and Crazy Diamonds. Göteborg, Sweden: Addit Information AB. pp. 35–37. 
6. ^ ^{a b} KAIT8 News, Trumann Piano Plant Lays Off Workers While Undergoing Restructuring, http://www.kait8.com/Global/story.asp?S=2779233&nav=0jshUwbM
7. ^ "G.E. Credit Signs Deal With Baldwin". The New York Times. June 19, 1984. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E05E7DD1739F93AA25755C0A962948260. Retrieved 2007-12-17. 
8. ^ Rothstein, Eward (September 27, 1987). "For the Piano, Chords of Change". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE5D91E3FF934A1575AC0A961948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=3. Retrieved 2007-12-15. 
9. ^ Rothstein, Edward (January 29, 1993). "Baldwin Piano Agrees To Be Acquired". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE5D91E3FF934A1575AC0A961948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=3. Retrieved 2007-12-17. 
10. ^ "COMPANY NEWS; Wurlitzer Sale To Baldwin". The New York Times (Reuters) (The New York Times Company). 1987-12-24. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE2DA1039F937A15751C1A961948260&sec=&spon=&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink. Retrieved 2008-10-25. 
11. ^ "Gibson Guitar to Buy Baldwin Piano". Los Angeles Times (Tribune Company): p. C2. 2001-11-02. http://articles.latimes.com/2001/nov/02/business/fi-64517. Retrieved 2008-10-25. 
12. ^ Page 168 of the Piano Buyer by Larry Fine.
13. ^ ^{a b} Page 168 of the Piano Buyer by Larry Fine
14. ^ "Baldwin Pianos". Baldwin Piano. http://www.search.com/reference/Baldwin_Piano_Company/. Retrieved 2010-03-26. 

External links[link]

• Baldwin Pianos

John Ripley
Born	20 August 1867 Keith, Banffshire
Died	14 August 1933 (aged 65) St Andrews, Fife
Buried at	Upper Largo Cemetery, Fife
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Rank	Sergeant
Unit	The Black Watch
Battles/wars	World War I
Awards	Victoria Cross

John Ripley VC (20 August 1867 – 14 August 1933) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Details[link]

He was 47 years old, and a corporal in the 1st Battalion, The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment), British Army during the First World War at the battle of Aubers Ridge when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.

On 9 May 1915 at Rue du Bois, France, Corporal Ripley led his section on the right of the platoon in the assault and was the first man of the battalion to climb the enemy's parapet. From there he directed those following him to the gaps in the German wire entanglements. He then led his section through a breach in the parapet to a second line of trench. With seven or eight men he established himself, blocking other flanks, and continued to hold the position until all his men had fallen and he himself was badly wounded in the head.

He later achieved the rank of sergeant and died after falling off a ladder.

References[link]

• Monuments to Courage (David Harvey, 1999)
• The Register of the Victoria Cross (This England, 1997)
• Scotland's Forgotten Valour (Graham Ross, 1995)
• VCs of the First World War - The Western Front 1915 (Peter F. Batchelor & Christopher Matson, 1999)

External links[link]

Biography portal

• Location of grave and VC medal (Fife)
• John Ripley at Find a Grave

Peter William Dizozza (born 1958, Forest Hills, New York) is a music composer^[1] who also produces supplemental material as a writer, pianist, performer, photographer, and filmmaker. Since 2000 he has been the director of the WAH Theater at the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center.

Peter William Dizozza was born on September 5, 1958 in Forest Hills (Queens), New York. He and his sister, Monica, are the two children of an attorney, Nicholas Frederick Dizozza, who came from a large family in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and a teacher, Madeleine, the only child of Margaret and Anthony Carillo who settled in Forest Hills. Although his grandmothers were born in New York, Dizozza's ancestry was Italian. His paternal grandfather, Peter Dizozza, was born in Ginosa (Bari), and his maternal grandfather was born in San Giuseppe (Naples). Dizozza had a conservative and strongly Catholic upbringing. He attended Our Lady Queen of Martyrs grammar school and Archbishop Malloy High School in Queens, New York, and then went to Queens College, graduating with a Humanities Degree in Music, English, and Philosophy. After a series of summer jobs with the City of New York obtained through his maternal grandmother's friendship with a Brooklyn political leader, Meade Esposito, in 1981, at the age of 23, Dizozza joined the City Comptroller's Office and worked as an assistant, financial analyst, and court representative under Harrison J. Goldin and Elizabeth Holtzman until 1991. It was while working at the Comptroller's Office by day and attending St. John's Law School at night that Dizozza began directing music at the Bronx community theatre and became enamored with it. He graduated from Law School in 1986 and in 1988, moved to the East Village, Manhattan, and began performing his own material. In 1991 he was admitted into the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop as a composer and began legal employment as an associate with The Law Office of Jerald D. Werlin, a firm specializing in personal injury in Long Island City. His monthly piano/singer/songwriter shows began in November 1995 at—and because of—an open-stage anti-hoot organized and hosted by Lach at SideWalk Bar-Restaurant.

Dizozza's family vacationed on Candlewood Isle, a Candlewood Lake community in Connecticut. That led to some acting in children's commercials of DuRona studios and brief appearance in a wedding scene as an extra in the Sylvester Stallone vehicle The Lords of Flatbush.^[2]

Since 1964 Dizozza has produced a steady output of primarily musical original material. To contain and administer his creative catalogue, he registered in 1996 a D/B/A and started a website under the name Cinema VII, reviving a collective founded in 1972 by a high school friend, Mike Lindsay.

Plays and productions [link]

• Prepare to meet your maker - Musical mystery play with 30 performances and a soundtrack recorded by Alex Abrash and David Baker at Electric Lady Studio in September 2001.

• The Golf Wars - First reading at La MaMa, E.T.C. on April 5, 2002. Soundtrack, Songs of The Golf Wars, produced by Major Matt Mason USA for Olive Juice Music.^[3] Produced at The WAH Theatre in conjunction with World Peace Exhibit, 2002, directed by Tom Nondorf. Revived as a band performance at Joe's Pub at The Joseph Papp Public Theater ^[4] and in a revised staging by Tom Nondorf at La Mama, in time for the November elections in 2006.^[5]

• The Marriage at the Statue of Liberty (2003) - Wrote and produced for the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center Brave Destiny Exhibition, a modern ballet with dialogue after Cocteau (inspired by Les mariés de la Tour Eiffel, the surrealist ballet with dialogue by the French Poet/Filmmaker Jean Cocteau).^[6] Features the Emiaj Dance Troupe

• Contributed short plays to the Manhattan Theatre Source 48 Hour Spontaneous Combustion Production (Gala & Ligeti), March 24–26, 2002, and to the Confronting Chekhov festival, 2009 (Not the Ravine) and Dramatizing Dante festival, 2010 (The Afterdeath, a Francesca and Paolo mini-opera) produced by The Brooklyn Playwrights Collective.

• The Last Dodo - Premiered at the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, playing from February through April 2001, at Baby Jupiter, 170 Stanton Street at Orchard Street, New York, NY. Soundtrack produced by Aashish Pathak. A film sketch was completed in 2003.

• A Question of Solitude, TentagatneT, The Last Dodo, The Peace Mission, Witchfinders, Coppélia, and The Eleventh Hour originated at La MaMa, E.T.C.'s Experiments concert reading series, curated by George Ferencz (1998–2009).

• Marilyn Majeski directed Coppélia for La Mama then subsequently produced the show through Wing and a Prayer Productions at the Gene Frankel Theatre Workshop in 1998.

• Produced staged readings of The Eleventh Hour (1999) at the La Tea Theatre in the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Educational Center. John Seroff revised and directed a sold-out production of The Eleventh Hour at the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center. Cast members included Jeffrey Lewis, Cheryl LaRosa, Kimya Dawson, Abbey Valdez, Daniel Bernstein and Toby Goodshank.

• The Sea Heiress (2004) - For two voices, piano, clarinet and baritone sax, produced at the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center.^[7]

• Tentagatnet (2005) - For five actors, cello, clarinet, guitar and flute (La MaMa, E.T.C.'s Experiments '05) revived for a full production in La MaMa, E.T.C.'s 2007 Experimenta! Festival, directed by George Ferencz.^[8]

• O (2006) - A recovered memory play (La MaMa, E.T.C.'s Experiments '06). Its sequel is Cow City (2008).

• 2.2.2 (2007) - Also known as "Hermaphroditism Through the Ages," produced in "Oh Happy Three" as part of the Straight from the Source Summer Series at Manhattan Theatre Source)

• Cow City (2008) - produced in "Oh Happy Three 2008" as part of the Playground Summer Series at Manhattan Theatre Source)

• Paradise Found (2008) - produced in conjunction with Milton's 400th Birthday Art Exhibition by the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center.

• The Woman Artist's Journey (2009) - a program of 5 plays by Maria Micheles, C.J. Ehrlich, Alaina Hammond, Phil Kaplan and Allan Lefcowitz, produced with the Brooklyn Playwrights Collective to celebrate the Woman Forward Art Exhibition at the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center.

• As music director for Forest Hills Gardens Women's Club, provided scores for The Great Enchanted Forest (2000) and for Murder by Music (a detectives musical, 2001)

• Composed music for Convertible by Elizabeth West Versalie, produced at La MaMa, E.T.C.'s main stage in 1997. Soundtrack featured the voice of Catherine Russell.

• Performs monthly piano set at the Sidewalk Bar-Restaurant (94 Ave A at E6th St, NY) where he originated the monologues/song cycles Pro-Choice on Mental Health, Exploring a Fascination with Things that Spin, When the Kangaroos Come Out, The Blood of a Poet, The Secret to Good Sex (Abstinence), and The Philosopher's Stone, and the short play, Shipping the Satellite. The audio recordings of the Pro-Choice on Mental Health songs and text are produced by Joe Bendik.^[9]

• Wrote over 200 unique songs and numerous works for solo piano

• Composed song settings for poems of Thomas Hardy and T. S. Eliot, and Shakespeare's As You Like It and The Tempest, which toured city parks during the summer of 1991

• Composed a choral score for Neil Ericksen's musical play based on the myth of Atalanta, entitled Legs Like These (QWIRK's Actor's Equity Showcase, One Dream Theatre, 1992).

• In the cabaret field (Don’t Tell Mama, Trocadero, Duplex) he collaborated with Margaret O'Hanlon (1987–1988) on Infidelity, Infidelity Reformed, Tropical Depression, and The Hoagy and Peter Show, and with Lisa Dery and Tyr Throne on A Nite of Love and Possession (1996–1997).

• Wrote and performed a calypso theatre piece, A Trip to Bermuda for Charles Strouse's A. R. Gurney Project as part of the ASCAP Music Theatre Workshop.

• Assistant Conductor on We Are Innocent, an album of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg letters set by the composer, Leonard Lehrman.

• Helped to reconstruct the score and present a backers' audition for Maggie Da Silva's production of Marc Blitzstein's labor opera, No For An Answer.^[10]

• For reading series produced for The Neighborhood Playhouse by Patricia Watt, he began writing introductory songs for play collections, particularly Bruce Jay Friedman's 4-Play directed by Steve Ditmyer. With Mr. Friedman, he presented 4-Play as part of the 2006 75th Anniversary Season of the John Drew Theatre in East Hampton's Guild Hall.

• Author of three novels, Storm Cloud (1981), The Resurrection (1974 revised 1985), and Mark of the Librarian (1998).

• Graduate of the Humanities Program and Aaron Copland School of Music (Queens College, 1981), St. John's Law School (1986), the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop (1994), and even, in 1997, the Landmark Education Self Expression and Leadership Program, the offspring of Erhard Seminars Training or EST.

• Artist and in-house counsel for Cinema VII, an entertainment collective that administers his creative catalogue

• Early movies, The Ruins (1971) and Angels: Tour of the Vultures (1977) received screenings in 2000 at film festivals, including a silent film/live music event at Manhattan Theatre Source.

• Helped organize permits and act as NYC Liaison for Anti-folk Fests in Tompkins Square and Central Park since 1999

• Participant in the Union Internationale des Avocets, Strasbourg

• Practicing attorney^[11]

Memberships [link]

• The Entertainment Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Chair, 2006-2009.

• The Lambs Club

• The Dramatists Guild

• Bar of the State of New York

References[link]

External links[link]

• Cinema VII

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Joyce Arleen Auger (or Augér) (September 13, 1939 – June 10, 1993)^[1] was an American soprano singer, admired for her coloratura voice and interpretations of works by Bach, Handel, Haydn, Monteverdi, Gluck, and Mozart.

Biography[link]

Auger was born in South Gate, California and lived in Hartsdale, New York. She learned piano and violin as a child. She received a BA in Education from California State University at Long Beach in 1963, and her first job was as a kindergarten and first grade teacher.

Between 1965-67, she studied voice with tenor Ralph Errolle in Evanston, Illinois, and began her professional singing career after winning the I. Viktor Fuchs Vocal Competition in Los Angeles in 1967, which brought her some singing engagements and airfare to Vienna; she also appeared with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra at this time. She was signed by the Vienna Staatsoper soon after her arrival there despite her lack of knowledge of the German language, after impressing Josef Krips, remaining with the company for seven years. Her debut was in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte under Krips. She made her American debut with the same opera in 1969, with the New York City Opera. Her Metropolitan Opera debut was as Marzelline in Fidelio, under Karl Böhm.

Given background in education, Auger was a natural vocal teacher. She taught from 1971-77 at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, where she moved in 1974, and later taught at the Salzburg Mozarteum. Her debut at La Scala was in 1975 in L'enfant et les sortilèges. From this time, she turned to lyrical roles in opera, preferring to focus on her career as a concert singer, in early music as well as lieder, often accompanied in the latter by pianist Irwin Gage. She performed most of the soprano parts in Helmuth Rilling's Bach cantata cycle of the mid-1970s to mid-1980s, appearing several times at Rilling's Oregon Bach Festival. At the other end of the spectrum, she commissioned new song cycles by Libby Larsen (Sonnets from the Portuguese) and Judith Zaimont.

She performed Mozart's Exsultate, Jubilate in Westminster Abbey on July 23, 1986 to over 700 million TV viewers at the wedding of The Prince Andrew, Duke of York and Sarah Ferguson; she later recorded this work along with the Great Mass in C minor under Leonard Bernstein, in 1990. On December 5, 1991, the bicentenary of Mozart's death, she sang his Requiem with Cecilia Bartoli and the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Georg Solti in St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna, by this time already suffering from brain cancer. She made over two hundred recordings, including the complete soprano cantatas of Bach and the works of Schoenberg.

Auger won a Grammy for Best Classical Vocal Performance^[2] in 1994 for her performances on the 1993 "The Art of Arlene Auger" (Koch International Classics 3-7248-2H1). The release was also notable for its recording debut of "Sonnets from the Portuguese" by American composer Libby Larsen. Auger also recorded for Delos International.^[3] Stereophile's Jason Serinus wrote that her "exquisite album of Love Songs remains one of the finest compendiums of classical song ever issued."

Music critic Tim Page wrote that she was "the sort of artist whose work not only provided pleasure for her audience but also instruction for her colleagues [...] by any standards, hers was an exemplary career [...] She sang beautifully for more than a quarter century, she sang great music, and she never bowed or pandered to public taste. She was an artist, steady and serious to the end."

Death[link]

She retired in February 1992, after being diagnosed with a malignant brain tumour, a mass in the right parietal lobe of her brain which turned out to be a giant cell glial blastoma. After three brain surgeries, she died at the age of 53 in Leusden, The Netherlands, where she had lived during her illness. A memorial service in her honour was held at the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel where works by Bach, Mozart, Fauré and others were performed by several well known musicians including Renée Fleming and Karen Holvik.^[4] She was married and divorced twice, and was survived by her parents and brother.

Media[link]

• Arleen Auger and Cecilia Bartoli sing Benedictus from Mozart's Requiem. Video.
• Arleen sings Exultate, Jubilate by Mozart at the royal marriage in London. Video.
• Arleen sings Et incarnatus est from Mozart Mass in C minor. Video.

Notes[link]

1. ^ "Auger, Arleen". Who was who in America : with world notables, v. XI (1993-1996). New Providence, N.J.: Marquis Who's Who. 1996. p. 10. ISBN 0837902258. 
2. ^ Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Performance
3. ^ Official website of Delos
4. ^ New York Times

External links[link]

• http://www.arleen-auger-memorial-fund.org/ - information, pictures, music samples
• Bach-cantatas.com: Arleen Auger - pictures
• http://www.stereophile.com/news/032607haygood/ - opinion

Dalton Baldwin (born December 19, 1931) is an American collaborative pianist. He has made over 100 recordings and has won numerous prizes working with Elly Ameling and Gérard Souzay.^[1][2]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Classical Archives profile