Feb. 12. The Rev. Dr. Phillips Endecott Osgood was installed as our fifth rector. For information about him and his tenure, please see the chapter on him in Emmanuel Church, 1860-1960: The First Hundred Years.
Nov. 23. Our former organist Lynnwood Farnam, who had become head of the Organ Department at the Curtis Institute of Music before his death in late 1930, bequeathed his papers to their library. Theodore Presser published in Philadelphia Farnum’s Toccata on “O Filii et Filiae“. Often played at Easter, the magnificent piece is employed to test organs.
See his memorial plaque in the chancel behind the organ.
Listen to a rendition of his Toccata by Diana Bish.
Charles Scribner’s Sons published The Rev. Elwood Worcester‘s autobiography Life’s Adventure: The Story of a Varied Career (OCLC# 1896075). For a description of his ministry based on it, please see our page and Wikipedia’s on the Emmanuel Movement
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