CHOIR NEWS – 2009
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CHOIR INVITATION
You are enthusiastically invited to join the adult choir! We rehearse for one hour on
Wednesday evenings at 7:00 PM and briefly before church on Sunday morning.
If you’re not sure, make a commitment to just a few rehearsals and try it out!
If you would like to sing a joyful song to the Lord on Sunday mornings, then please
join us on Wednesday evenings at 7:00 PM.
Feel free to contact Alden and Christin Snell (395-1545 or acsnell@frontiernet.net)
with any questions about the choir. We look forward to having you join us!
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ORGAN HISTORY
Did you know that our church organ was designed by one of the premier organ
builders of the 20th Century? Ernest M. Skinner (1866-1960) was well known in
the organ world for developing a multitude of new sounds, or voices, for the pipe organ.
He ran his own organ-building company in the early 20th century, but to survive the
Great Depression, merged in 1932 with the Aeolian company.
In 1947, the Aeolian-Skinner Organ Company was hired by Harold Gleason, chair of
the organ department at the Eastman School of Music to install five (!) practice organs
at the school. Following Gleason’s retirement, the organ department at Eastman
decided to install a greater variety of instruments for student practice. This eventually
led to the 1968 purchase of “Opus 1126″ by the First Baptist Church of Brockport.
The instrument was installed by the Parsons Organ Company
and is in excellent condition following a refit in 2007.
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