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    Rice University - Alice Pratt Brown Hall - Edythe Bates Old Recital Hall


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    The generous philanthropy of the late Mrs. Edythe Bates Old made it possible to finish the interior of the hall which now bears her name and to begin construction of the organ that now elegantly fills that space.

    Edythe Bates Old Recital Hall is a beautiful venue that is perfect for organ concerts, choral concerts, and concerts of early music. C.B. Fisk, of Gloucester, Massachusetts, and Rosales Organ Builders of Los Angeles, California, were invited to build the majestic pipe organ, now housed in Edythe Bates Old Recital Hall.

    The organ was built entirely in Massachusetts in 1995, and then delivered on January 15, 1996, to the Shepherd School of Music. The painstaking work to adjust tone, volume, and speech of each pipe individually began six weeks later and was completed twelve months later in March of 1997.

    The venue has a very warm aesthetic quality, and is not only pleasing to the eye but also custom-designed to suit the acoustical needs of the organ.


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