President's Report 2007 2007 continues to be an exciting year for the foundation as we track the progress of our latest foundation-initiated project. The Constellation Performing Arts and Film Center, to be constructed in the Kendall Square area in Cambridge, Massachusetts, will be the home of a pipe organ based on an 18th century instrument that J. S. Bach himself admired in the central part of Germany where the master spent most of his working life. While research into this instrument’s design and location continues, the organ builder has been selected: Taylor & Boody, a Virginia firm (http://www.taylorandboody.com) well equipped to build the kind of instrument we and the organ consultant have in mind. In this venture we are all profiting from research made available since the opening up of former East Germany. The resulting organ will be the first of its kind in North America and as such will surely revivify organ studies and performances in this academic and cultural center. Ellis L. Phillips, III President, Ellis L. Phillips Foundation February 2007