Randall Sensmeier has spent decades playing the organ, composing music and leading congregations in song. But he has also been bringing to light new church composers and their work. The 74-year-old ...

GARFIELD TOWNSHIP, MI-- As a 5-year-old, Benjamin LaPrairie would sit in the front row of the balcony at St. Anne's Church in Linwood for Sunday Mass, fixated on a pair of feet pushing an organ's ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Seven decades ago, while awaiting word from the Juilliard School about his audition as a vocalist, Austin C. Lovelace wandered across the street to the Union ...

In this busy Lenten season, First Presbyterian Church is back to offer a midweek respite with its annual Lenten Organ Series. The downtown church will host two performances starting Thursday ...

Ian Tomlinson aims to play all 571 hymns in the church hymn book in 18 hours A church organist, recently diagnosed with prostate cancer, is performing an 18-hour marathon recital to raise money for ...

My favorite hymn is “I Sing a Song of the Saints of God.” I’ve loved it since I was a child, but what child wouldn’t love a hymn with words like, “And one was a soldier, and one was a priest, and one ...

It’s no secret that church organists have become scarce these days, as fewer young people are interested in studying organ, and older organists are retiring. An article by Jonathan M. Pitts in the ...

When the longtime organist at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Havre de Grace announced her retirement last fall, the leaders of the small 200-year-old congregation faced a bigger challenge than they ...

HOWARD LAKE, Minn — At St. John's Lutheran Church in Howard Lake, the 55-year-old organ led the parish in times of joy and hardship. Now it's the parishioners' turn to take care of it. “To build this ...