Do you love pipe organ music? We do too! Come celebrate the season with us at The Park Church. Each Advent we present two free organ recitals. This year's dates are Sunday, December 14 at 10 AM and on Thursday, December 18 at noon - our lunchtime outreach to the community. A post-recital soup and sandwich lunch will be available following the Thursday program - eat in or take out – for a suggested donation of $5. No reservations are needed, all are welcome!
This year we celebrate the 50th anniversary of our Schantz Organ - an instrument with 2832 pipes that was installed in our balcony post-flood in 1974. Our organist and music director, Charlotte Cook, curates a program of music selections each Advent to highlight the capacity of the organ's "voices."
This year's program opens with a vigorous setting of the spiritual “My Lord, What a Morning,” and continues with six pieces: "Come, O Traveler Unknown" by Dale Wood, a setting of this Scottish folk tune using the organ’s “bagpipe stop”; "Trumpet Tune" by John Stanley, a piece that imitates the sound of a trumpet with numerous echo effects; "Hark, a Thrilling Voice is Sounding" by Benjamin A. Culli, the organ pedals sound the ‘Voice’ in a setting of this 5th century hymn; "People Look East" by Dale Wood, a lively French folk song that pictures a home being prepared for the Christmas ‘Guest’; and the prelude on “Of the Father’s Love Begotten” by T. Frederick H. Candlyn, an organ arrangement on what is perhaps the oldest hymn many congregations sing and a toccata on “Creator of the Stars of Night" by Pietro A. Yon, a fast and loud toccata that incorporates Gregorian plainchant. The recital will close with a toccata on “Creator of the Stars of Night.”
We hope you will join us in the midst of this busy season of preparation and relive the story of Christmas with organ music.
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