Shortly after 9:30 a.m. Sunday, organist Steven Forster squared up over the two-tiered keyboard of Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos' massive new pipe organ, timed the Rev. Joe Benson's approach up the ...

First Congregational Church of Elgin will hold a concert Tuesday to commemorate the 130th anniversary of its massive pipe organ, an instrument so impressive that just moving it into the building made ...

[Editor's note: this story was submitted by John Coney, Member QALC Fine Arts Committee] The Queen Anne Lutheran Church congregation celebrates the arrival of a new world class pipe organ to ...

The Great Elgin Pipe Organ Tour returns for the 2025-26 season with its first concert at 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 28, at First Congregational Church of Elgin, 256 E Chicago St. The instrument featured is ...

ELGIN, Ill. (CBS) -- You could call it the concert of the century. On Tuesday night, the First Congregational Church in Elgin recreated the first concert on its big pipe organ. That concert happened ...

Editor’s note: First Congregational United Church of Christ in Elgin recently announced that the grand finale concert for the Great Elgin Pipe Organ Tour set for Sept. 12 has been canceled. It will be ...

FITCHBURG — The beautiful, melodic sounds of organ notes are once again filling the Emanuel Lutheran Church sanctuary, music to the congregation’s ears and the finishing touch in the rebuilding ...

This is a busy month at La Jolla’s St. James by-the-Sea Episcopal Church in its effort to build a new pipe organ — one of many busy months ahead. Crews have been onsite since June unloading almost all ...

ASHFIELD — Asked how low he can go, Tom McChesney fiddled with a couple of levers and then stepped on a foot peddle of the 118-year-old pipe organ. Instantly, the Ashfield Congregation Church became ...

First Congregational Church of Redlands’ annual series of pipe organ concerts begins 11:30 a.m. Thursday, April 6, with a performance by Stephen Moore, the church’s organist. The series of half-hour ...

First Congregational Church of Redlands will present a series of Thursday morning organ concerts for the season of Lent and Easter, beginning April 3. The concerts, on the church’s Turner pipe organ, ...