During a time when churches are abandoning their pipe organs, we will celebrate ours!  This year our Fisk Organ (Opus 105) will be 25 years old, and Ryan Hebert, St. Andrew’s new Organist/Choirmaster, will play a special recital. The concert will be Sunday, September 29 at 3p.m.  The program will be about an hour long and will open with the Prelude in F# Minor by Dietrich Buxtehude, and include other works like the Fantasy and Fugue in G Minor by J.S. Bach, Aria on a Chaconne by Joel Martinson, variations from an organ concerto by G.F. Handel, and a colorful set of variations on Old Hundredth by Canadian composer Denis Bedard. The program will showcase the instrument’s ability to produce a variety of colorful sounds, both great and small. The concert is free, but there will be a freewill offering for the continued support of the music ministry at St. Andrew’s. A reception (hosted by the Parish Life Committee) will follow in the Parish Hall.

Attending live concerts is a wonderful way to support the music at St. Andrew’s, but even better is inviting a friend, a relative, a neighbor, or a coworker.  Many people have never attended an organ recital before, and many have never even heard a real pipe organ.  Introduce your friends to the wonders of what Mozart called “The King of Instruments.” In November of 1994 the first concert was played on our organ, and in September we will commemorate and celebrate those parishioners, past and present, that made this treasured instrument possible.  As the Psalm reminds us (and the Latin inscription written on the organ case!) “Let Everything that has Breath, Praise the Lord!”