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Lynnwood Farnam

  • ... that Lynnwood Farnam ensured that "Canadian Organist" was placed under his name? Source: The Gazette (Montreal, Canada )29 Nov 1930, Page 10: "As evidence of his loyalty to the country of his birth and early life was to be noted in his circulars where he insisted on having "Canadian Organist" under his name."
    • ALT1:... that Lynnwood Farnam was the first North American organist to play the entire repertoire of Johann Sebastian Bach's organ works? Source: Whitney, Craig (2004). All The Stops: The Glorious Pipe Organ And Its American Masters. PublicAffairs. p. 92 "he (Biggs) celebrated with a series of twelve recitals in the Germanic Museum of the complete organ works of Bach, a major feat that had been performed by only one American organist before him, Lynnwood Farnam."

Created by 78.26 (talk). Self-nominated at 22:55, 4 February 2019 (UTC).

Symbol voting keep.svg Substantial article on good sourcs, subscription sources accepted AGF, no copyvio obvious. - I think the original hook is cute, but not for such a giant. I'd talk about the dedications by Dupré and Viernes, and if not in a hook then at least in the lead. I linked to a piece and promise to improve the article ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:18, 18 February 2019 (UTC)