Organist Gordon Turk can’t wait to be “heckeled.”
I’m talking about the imminent arrival of a new heckelphone stop, the latest enhancement of the massive instrument at the Great Auditorium at Ocean Grove, NJ. The Great Auditorium sports one of the largest organs in the world. A grand hall demands a grand instrument!
Read all about it and the magnificent auditorium, an acoustic marvel from the days before amplification – its construction spearheaded by Methodist ministers in 1894 and completed by strapping shipbuilders in only 90 days – in my profile of Turk, now in his 45th season as Ocean Grove’s resident organist, in this week’s edition of U.S. 1 Newspaper – PrincetonInfo, out today.
http://princetoninfo.com/index.php/component/us1more/?Itemid=6&key=6-27-18turk