DUXBURY — Hymn music from a 165-year-old pipe organ filled the sanctuary at First Parish Church, the tones rich and mellow, yet so powerful a visitor could almost feel the music vibrating in her chest ...

PATTERSON CREEK, W.Va. — Leitersburg resident Wally McClure got his start playing church music at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church in Patterson Creek in the mid- to late 1960s under the auspices of ...

Many American churches are doing everything they can to attract new generations of parishioners. And often, that means less traditional organ music and Christian hymns. But the organist at the West ...

Late Saturday afternoon, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Evanston, was filled to the rafters with music as participants lifted their voices in song in celebration of the centennial anniversary of the ...

Hymns from a decades-old organ can be heard once again traveling through the sanctuary of Grace United Methodist Church in Hagerstown. The 1929 Moller organ can be played again thanks to a $243,000 ...

SAN JOSE (KPIX) -- A San Jose church is breathing new life into a century-old silent movie theater pipe organ, even as the instrument aids an effort to rebuild the church and keep serving the ...

For 36 years, the organ played the notes of life at Geneva Presbyterian Church. It provided the musical backdrop at baptisms, weddings and funerals, and for hymns, preludes, offertories and postludes ...

WEBB CITY, Mo. — Twelve area musicians and speakers will be featured at the Hymn Festival from 3-4:30 p.m. Saturday at the First Presbyterian Church, Broadway and Ball streets. A feature of the ...

The only sound echoing inside the sanctuary of the long dormant Ensley Highlands Presbyterian Church the past decade has been the sound of pieces of plaster falling on the red carpet and cushioned ...

For starters, pianos and organs are not the same thing. Just because Sister Mary Brown tickles the ivories doesn’t mean she’ll be immediately capable of playing the organ if she is called to do so by ...

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