| LC control no. | n 82153047 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Mason, Marilyn, 1925-2019 |
| Birth date | 1925-06-29 |
| Death date | 2019-04-04 |
| Place of birth | Alva (Okla.) |
| Place of death | Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) |
| Affiliation | University of Michigan |
| Profession or occupation | Organists Organ teachers College teachers |
| Found in | Variations on Sunday-school tunes. Am. keyboard artists, 2nd ed. (Mason, Marilyn; b. 6-29-1925, Alva, OK) UM School of Music, Theatre & Dance, Aug. 23, 2013 Faculty and Staff biography (Marilyn Mason; Professor of Organ Department & University Organist; Marilyn Mason is University Organist and Chair of the Organ Department. Her extensive career as performer, lecturer, adjudicator, and teacher has taken her throughout the Western world, at one point performing more than thirty recitals per year. She was the first American woman organist to perform in Westminster Abbey, the first woman organist to play in Latin America, and the first American organist to perform in Egypt. Mason's gifts as a teacher were recognized in the fall of 2007 when the 47th Conference on Organ Music, which she founded, was dedicated to her in celebration of her 60th year of teaching) <http://www.music.umich.edu/faculty_staff/bio.php?u=&lname=mason&fname=marilyn> New York times WWW site, viewed Apr. 26, 2019 (in obituary published Apr. 25: Marilyn Mason; b. Marilyn May Mason, June 29, 1925, Alva, Okla.; d. Apr. 4, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., aged 93; concert organist who championed living composers and shaped generations of organists over a record-breaking 67 years on the faculty at the University of Michigan) |
| Associated language | eng |
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