It has been a very long time since I heard music at Hill, perhaps as long as 55 years! I remember it was an organ recital at a Detroit-area AGO convention. Is the organ still there? I think it was an E. M. Skinner, and a very good one. I did work on the much newer red brick music practice building, with Saarinan as architect. There is also a newer concert hall, which was built after I moved to Israel, which has a Fisk organ, named the Marilan Mason organ, one of North America's really great organ teachers and performers, who still teaches as an Emeritus Professor, and who gave an excellent recital on the Marcusson here in Jerusalem at the BYU Near Eastern Studies Center, a neighbor of my Yeshiva, and which I also helped in design before moving here. I still have a nephew, Stephen Kasle, living with his wife Mercy, in Ann Arbor.
Lauritz Melchior arriving in Ann Arbor for a performance at Hill Auditoreum in 1950
I think the last concert I attended at the Hill was the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra (Mazur) in 1988.
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