INTERVIEWEES
Kimberlee Austin, president - Austin Organs, builders of the Exposition Organ
[completed 10/13/99] Donald Austin, CEO - Austin Organs, builders of the Exposition Organ [completed 10/13/99] Victor Hoyt, Organbuilder - Austin Organs, removed the Exposition Organ from
SF Civic Center [completed 10/13/99] Bob Plimpton, organist for Spreckles Organ in San Diego [completed 8/17/99] Lyle Blackinton, curator of the Spreckles Organ in San Diego [completed 8/17/99] Betty Biza-Lemare, daughter of world famous organist Edwin H. Lemare [completed 8/16/99] Lawrence Schoenstein, organbuilder and son of Louis Schoenstein, project manager for
the installation of the Exposition Organ at the World's Fair in
1915 and SF Civic Auditorium in 1917 [completed 6/10/99] Cheryl Arnold, San Francisco - American Guild of Organists, Committee Chair
heading up the Exposition Organ project Jack Bethards, president of Schoenstein & Company, restorers of the Mormon
Tabernacle Organ and the Exposition Organ among others Dr. Orpha Ochse, professor, Whittier College, author of Austin Organs, The History of the Organ in the United States, Fundamentals of Music Theory, and Organists and Organ playing in the Nineteenth-Century France and
Belgium Thomas Murray, concert organist and professor of organ at Yale University [completed 08/24/00] Barbara Owen, author, historian and organist [completed 08/24/00] Alan Laufman, executive director Organ Clearing House [completed 08/24/00] Nelson Barden, organbuilder and historian [completed 08/24/00] Charles Swisher, founder of Citizen's Committee to Preserve the San Francisco
Municipal Organ