St. Luke’s in the Meadow Episcopal Church, Fort Worth, will celebrate their 110-year-old pipe organ at 5 pm Sunday, October 20, with an organ recital. The recital is free and open to the public. All are welcome. A fundraiser spaghetti supper will follow in the church’s Abbitt Hall.
The recital will include works by Bach, Buxtehude, and Gigout, along with contemporary arrangements from women composers (Joyce Jones, Nancy Raabe, and June Nixon) that are based on popular hymn tunes.
Tony Kroll, St. Luke’s organist/choirmaster, will play the church’s 1909 mechanical pipe organ that was built by the Geo. Kilgen & Son company of St. Louis, Missouri. Previously in a synagogue in east Texas, the organ was moved to Fort Worth with the assistance of TCU music students and installed at St. Luke’s in the Meadow in 1975 by the Fort Worth organ builder, Roy Redman.
The recital is part of the parish’s celebration of the feast of St. Luke, known as the patron saint of artists, physicians, bachelors, surgeons, students, and butchers, according to scholars of religion.