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Patrick J. Murphy & Associates Organ Builders, Stowe, Pennsylvania, has installed its Opus 47R in St. John's Episcopal Church, Johnson City, Tennessee.

Parsons Pipe Organ Builders and Rosales Organ Builders have completed a new organ for St. James by-the Sea Episcopal Church, La Jolla, California.

Quimby Pipe Organs has built a new organ for Immaculata Church, St. Marys, Kansas

Marceau Pipe Organ Builders Opus 41 has been installed in St. Mary Magdalene Catholic Church, Everett, Washington

Quimby Pipe Organs, Warrensburg, Missouri, has restored Austin Organs Inc., opus 2352 for Kansas State University, Manhattan.

Skinner Organ Company Opus 327 celebrates its centennial of service to St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Evanston, Illinois, in 2022.

As I contemplated writing this article about the new pipe organ for Saint Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Fort Pierce, Florida, many things came to mind, several of them cathartic and all of them personally important. Fort Pierce is a location where, as they say, I have “roots.” I was born in the Fort Pierce area in 1967, and was baptized at the First United Methodist Church. In the ensuing years, my family would continue to come back to this community to visit, to rest, and for recreation.

Editor's note: Click on the link above to view the front cover of the April 1951 issue of The Diapason and announcement of Opus 1132 for the Church of the Redeemer, New Haven, Connecticut. The organ’s first career In 1951 New Haven’s Church of the Redeemer, founded in 1838, moved into a neo-colonial structure designed by prominent local architect Douglas Orr. The new church was located in the city’s East Rock neighborhood and quickly took its place among Orr’s other distinguished bu...

The history of the pipe organs of St. John Cantius Catholic Chicago, Chicago, including Casavant, Felgemaker, Wurlitzer.

Russell Meyer & Associates, Lawrenceville, Georgia, Opus 14 First Presbyterian Church, Clarkesville, Georgia Historic First Presbyterian Church of Clarkesville, Georgia, was built in 1848 by Jarvis Van Buren, a first cousin of President Martin Van Buren. The first pipe organ in the building was installed in the rear gallery by the Greenwood Pipe Organ Company in 1983.