John Sanford Matthews
1929-2008

We are sad to announce that after a long, happy & productive life here on this earth,
John S. Matthews has left us to begin his next chapter in the hereafter.

"What will be the judgment a century hence concerning the lauded works of our favorite composers today? Inasmuch as nearly everything is subject to the changes of time, and, more's the pity, the fashions of time, only that which is good and true, will endure like a rock, and no wanton hand will ever venture to defile it. Then let every man do that which is right, strive with all his might toward the goal which can never be attained, develop to the
last breath the gifts with which a gracious Creator has endowed him, and never cease to learn; for 'Life is short, art eternal!'" 
Ludwig van Beethoven