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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Dubuque church is putting its renovated pipe organ back together this week in a project that the organizer says has also revitalized the congregation. Merrill Crawford leads the effort to refurbish ...

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 ...

[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 ...

Work to restore the pipe organ at St John’s Burlington Methodist Church is almost complete.

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 ...

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 ...

WHITINSVILLE — Music in many forms is a large part of the programs at the Village Congregational Church, UCC, in Whitinsville. Having one of the best and largest pipe organs and handbell sets in the ...