Indiana Landmarks hosts free concert to dedicate pipe organ

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Indiana Landmarks hosts free concert to dedicate pipe organ

The Hendricks County Flyer Tue Aug 16, 2011, 04:11 PM EDT

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana Landmarks and the Indianapolis Chapter of the American Guild of Organists will formally dedicate a restored 1892 pipe organ at Indiana Landmarks Center at a concert, "Pipe Up," at 3 p.m. Sept. 18. The concert is free and does not require a reservation.

Featured artist Charles Webb, dean emeritus of Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, will be joined by organists Martin Ellis, Mary Ellen Burgomaster, and June Edison. Other performers include Randy Frieling on piano, Mike White on trumpet, and Ginny Womack on violin.

Michael Davis, assistant director of the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir, will direct a choir performing anthems.

In a nod to the building's history as Central Avenue United Methodist Church, part of the program will invite audience participation in a hymn sing.

Thomas Sanborn & Son, an organ-building firm on Massachusetts Avenue in Indianapolis in the late 1800s, built the 1892 organ to serve the congregation of the Romanesque Revival-style church at 12th Street and Central Avenue. The formerly non-functional organ was restored and expanded by Indianapolis' Goulding & Wood to serve musical performances and other events in the sanctuary-turned-Grand Hall, a theater with stenciled walls, domed ceiling, and high-tech lighting effects.

During the restoration, artisans from Conrad Schmitt Studios in New Berlin, Wis., gilded and replicated the original stenciled design on the organ's pipes. The organ is one of only two Thomas Sanborn & Son pipe organs known to survive.

For more information, contact Mark Szobody, Indiana Landmarks' director of special events, by calling 639-4534 or by e-mailing to mszobody@indianalandmarks.org.

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Eric
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