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HARBISON CHAPEL ORGAN TO BE CELEBRATED IN RECITAL |
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June 18, 2010
GROVE CITY, Pa. – Grove City College will host a celebratory recital June 23 as part of the annual Organ Historical Society convention, based this year in Pittsburgh. Renowned performer Thomas Murray, professor of music and university organist at Yale University, will be the featured recitalist. The recital begins at 7:30 p.m. in Harbison Chapel on campus.
At the performance, Grove City College will receive a citation from the Organ Historical Society recognizing the Kimball organ in Harbison Chapel as an instrument of historic merit and worthy of preservation. The chapel’s Kimball organ, dedicated in 1931, is one of very few remaining in original condition without any alterations.
Murray will perform a varied program of literature, including several transcriptions. Since the organ is designed to lead congregational singing, the recital will be unique in that it will feature Organ Historical Society vocalists singing hymns.
Murray has appeared in lectures and recitals at six national conventions of the American Guild of Organists. He has been named the 1986 New York City AGO Chapter International Performer of the Year, an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Organists in England and awarded the Gustave Stoeckel Award for excellence in teaching from the Yale University School of Music.
The Organ Historical Society seeks to document and preserve historic pipe organs and to raise public awareness and appreciation of America’s organ heritage.
To learn more about the Organ Historical Society, visit www.organsociety.org.
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