The Kotzschmar Memorial Organ


Organist Earl Miller, Portland, ca. 1988

Organist Earl Miller, Portland, ca. 1988
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Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ

Earl Miller was named Portland's ninth municipal organist in the autumn of 1988. Director of music at Christ Church, Andover, Massachusetts, he traveled to Portland one or two days a week to carry out his duties as municipal organist.

Miller quickly organized a "New Series of Winter and Spring Kotzschmar Organ Events" at City Hall, presenting a program each month from January through May. He also prepared a summer series for 1989.

A talented young musician with a rare sense of excitement, enthusiasm as well as organizational skills, Miller's untimely death in June 1989 left a large void.

Listen to Earl Miller in a recording made in the summer of 1988 play the traditional spiritual "Deep River" on the Kotzschmar Memorial Organ:



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