Community members from Kent, Des Moines and beyond are invited to a free concert at Resurrection Lutheran Church, 134 S. 206th St., in Des Moines to dedicate the church’s newly refurbished 122-year-old pipe organ.
Seattle organist Mark Andersen will play at the concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 23. Anderson is the artist in residence for Daniels Recital Hall in Seattle. He has studied organ with Marcel Dupre’ in Paris and E. Power Biggs in Cambridge, Mass.
The Whalley & Genung tracker pipe organ was built in 1889 for Zion Lutheran Church in Oakland, Calif. The church sold the organ in 1930 to Grace Lutheran in Visalia, Calif.
When Grace Lutheran acquired a new organ in the 1960s, the church’s former pastor was called to serve Resurrection. He told the congregation they could get the organ for $200 but would have to move it to Des Moines from California.
Resurrection sent several people to Visalia to bring the organ back to the church, where it was placed in storage for several years in the church basement.
For more information, visit www.resurrection-lcms.org.
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