The Sunday After Ascension Day is one of two days in the church year (the other being Christ the King, the last Sunday of the year) when we envision Christ in sitting in regal splendor upon the Throne of Heaven. This is in stark contrast to the [Read more...]
Former Calvary alto choral scholar Sara Couden has gone on to make quite a name for herself in the opera scene, including work with the Metropolitan Opera, the San Francisco Opera, and the St. Petersburg Opera. This Saturday, she'll be performing [Read more...]
The pile is getting smaller! These last several weeks have seen lots of continuing activity on our big organ transplant. I've had a bit less time to work on the project, having been doing some traveling for work, but progress has been steady [Read more...]
With all of the work we've been doing on the organ and my work schedule, I haven't been able to post an update on our progress for a few weeks, but here it is! Lots of activity and progress, with the inevitable hiccups along the way. The pile in [Read more...]
Last week we made quite a lot of progress on our big organ transplant. Again, we had a great turnout of parishioners to help out, and our activities included: Bill Visscher installed the great division wind chest shells on their supports in the [Read more...]
Murray admires the new wind chests for the great and swell divisions. As a way to help reduce the cost of our new Shoenstein organ, the parish agreed to provide some of the labor for the project. Our big task is to install the wiring on the wind [Read more...]
With the installation of our new Shoenstein organ, we also have the task of disposing the parts of our old Moeller organ. All of the parts are now removed and are sitting on the porch of the office. Instead of just carting it all off to the [Read more...]
Installation of our new organ has progressed rapidly in this last week, with lots of help from our parishioners. This week's work included: Completed stripping the old wiring and de-soldering electrical connections from the Shoenstein [Read more...]
Over the last week and a half, we've begun the instillation of our new Shoenstein pipe organ. The activities included: Removal of the Moeller Organ from the organ chamberMoving the partition between the great and swell chambers back 2 1/2 [Read more...]
The new Schoenstein Organ was delivered to Calvary on 2 August 2017. Unlike most other musical instruments, a pipe organ is not (usually) one monolithic instrument - it comes in may parts. The parts of our new organ came in a truck, and Murray [Read more...]