Organs at Oberlin by Marci Janas ’91
			The renowned firm of C.B. Fisk, Inc., designed and built the Kay Africa Memorial organ, the Opus 116, in the best of the late Romantic tradition, based upon the symphonic style of the great French organ builder Aristide Cavaillé-Coll. Ideally suited for the performance of 19th- and 20th-century music, the organ completes a triad of Oberlin period concert instruments. An organ designed and built in 1974 by D.A. Flentrop in the northern European style of the 18th century is located in the Conservatory’s Warner Concert Hall. In 1981 John Brombaugh built an organ for Fairchild Chapel that was modeled on the late Renaissance and early Baroque style of North Germany. The educational value of these three organs in different historic and national styles is of inestimable value to Oberlin Conservatory students. About the Oberlin Conservatory of Music Long recognized as one of the world’s leading centers for organ instruction, the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, founded in 1865, became part of Oberlin College in 1867. It is the oldest continuously operating conservatory in the United States, and the only major music school in the country linked with a preeminent liberal arts college.