It took a semi-truck to deliver Concordia University's newest musical instrument April 22.
     The organ, constructed by Casavant Frères in Quebec, Canada, was unloaded into its new home–the recently renovated recital hall in the Music Center on Concordia's campus.
     Three men from Casavant Frères made the 1,400-mile trip along with the organ, switching from French to English as they with worked with their Nebraskan counterparts to make sure the last 100 feet of the delivery went as smoothly as the first part.
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    On the surface, The Echo Maker by Richard Powers is the story of a young man who suffers a brain injury in a car accident and of the people around him.
     But its more than that. It's a look at memory and how it affects you and the people around you.
     Mark Schluter totals his truck on a rural Nebraska road near Kearney, and the resultant brain injury changes his life and that of his sister, Karin.
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