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MUSIC: Young North Tonawandan wins catholic music scholarship, performs at historic Buffalo church
By Around the Web | January 6, 2009
(The Tonawanda News) Attend Mass at Corpus Christi church in the heart of Buffalo and you’re bound to be 
moved by the place, its architecture and its acoustics.
During Sunday’s 11:30 Mass, one of North Tonawanda’s most talented young musicians took the helm of one of the finest all-around pipe organs in the region to make sure the music was as close to heavenly as possible.
Daniel Pisarcik, 14, commanded the church’s massive three keyboard, 32-pipe-set instrument for worshippers in the same house where it was built about 70 years ago, by Polish maker A. Radziewicz of New Jersey.
It is said workers at the time assembled the pieces in a building next door, eventually completing the installation of all 2,014 individual pipes (ranging in size from a half inch to 20 feet) in two separate chestnut wood housings on the church’s upper balcony.
[read full story at Tonawanda News]
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January 6th, 2009 at 10:48 am
Many, many congratulations to Daniel!
And many kudos to Bruce for nurturing and recognizing such talent that will serve our profession so well for decades to come!