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The community is invited to join in a special Christmas musical tradition, in what is perhaps the longest running annual Christmas Day concert of organ music in the country.A nationally recognized church musician, Stephen Williams began offering Organ Noëls in 1985 at First Presbyterian Church in Washington, New Jersey while a student at Westminster Choir College. Called ‘Christmas Day Organ Recital’ for the first three years, Organ Noëls began as an opportunity to show off a new organ at First Presbyterian, along with a desire to play organ music that would otherwise probably never see the light of day, and, most importantly to offer a musical gift to a community that just might need a moment to relax and ponder the season. With an immediate popularity, it quite naturally and easily became an annual event. In addition to First Presbyterian, it also found a home at St. John’s Lutheran Church in downtown Allentown, Pennsylvania in 1990, Cathedral Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in 2014, and now at St. Luke’s Episcopal in Salisbury.
Williams says he, "continues to be thrilled for the opportunity to share such wonderful music during this very special season 30-something years later." The program will include arrangements of familiar seasonal tunes as well as lesser known noëls from French composers of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. New for this year, the concert will also feature talented Charlotte area singer, mezzo-soprano, Andrea Petska.
Organ Noëls will be presented on Christmas Day, December 25th, at 3pm at St. Luke's Episcopal Church, 131 W. Council St, downtown Salisbury. The concert is free and open to the entire community.
A hot chocolate reception will follow.
For more information visit www.SLS.church, email [email protected], or call 704-633-3221.
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St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Salisbury NC, 211 N Church St, Salisbury, NC 28144-4312, United States,Salisbury, North Carolina
