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Described by Wynton Marsalis as The High Priest of Bach, and by Time Magazine as The High Priest of the Harpsichord, Newman continues his 50 year career as America's leading organist, harpsichordist and Bach specialist. The pedal harpsichord featured in this recording was made in 1968 by John Challis for the Canadian organist Gordon Jeffery. John Challis, the first American-born harpsichord maker of the early-music revival, was born in South Lyon, Michigan on January 9, 1907 and died in New York on September 6, 1974. In 1928 he received a Dolmetsch Foundation Scholarship, which enabled him to travel to Haslemere, England to serve an apprenticeship in harpsichord making with Arnold Dolmetsch. Upon his return to the United States in 1930, he established a workshop in Ypsilanti, Michigan. In 1966 he moved to New York City, where this instrument was constructed.