Robert E. Dilworth

It is with a heavy heart that we announce the death of DTOS Founder Robert E. “Bob” Dilworth on January 19, 2022. Please click the YouTube button to see a tribute to Bob presented at Dave Wickerham’s concert, January 22, Dave playing accompaniment at the Kimball. Special thanks to Carl Black and our technical team Jonathan, Brad and Eric for making this possible.

Robert E. Dilworth

December 28, 1931 – January 19, 2022

A Memorial Tribute was held July 16 at 4 p.m. in the Dickinson auditorium.  

It was a great tribute to the remarkable founder of the amazing Dickinson Theatre Organ Society. A brief service was presented with Carl Black and John Baratta on the consoles, the entire Dilworth family was present, Bob’s son John spoke of interesting experiences with his father, soloists Dale Martin, Tina Sheing presented beautiful songs with Jonathan Bowen on the piano and a previously inputted performance by Peter Richard Conte had the Kimball play one of Bob’s favorite pieces of music – Bach’s Chorale Come, sweet death arranged by Virgil Fox. A Celebration Concert was then presented by Nathan Avakian and Dave Wickerham.  Profound thanks to Carl Black and all others for making this possible, from all of us in the DTOS Family of Friends.  To say Bob will be missed is a profound understatement.   

To honor Bob’s decades of work on behalf of DTOS, the DTOS Board of Directors unanimously voted to name our concert presentations as:

“The Robert E. Dilworth Memorial Concert Series”