Thomas Spacht ------------- Occupation: Professor of Music, Towson University, Towson, Maryland. Education: Oberlin Conservatory, Syracuse University (Arthur Poister & Will Headlee), Eastman School (David Craighead), Fulbright work with Gustav Leonhardt, The Netherlands. Other information and interests: I have taught at Towson for some twenty years and during that time have developed interests in organs and organ music of French Classic, North German and French Romantic styles through a long series of European excursions, seminars, workshops and hands-on experiences. Most important influences via Harald Vogel (eight summers at Wellesley) and the work of builders such as Taylor & Boody, Brombaugh, Fisk, Paul Fritts, et al. I am fascinated that young students today find the new instruments at such institutions as Kansas, Rice University, Stamford, and others to be enormously attractive, while at the same time enjoying the work of others, such as Schoenstein, who aspire to a sound somewhat like the English school of organ building. I think the future for the organ is far brighter than often seems the case from the narrow confines of churches, many of which seem unsure of where to go next.