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- Subscribe - Contact Us - Rate Card - Place an Ad Archives Revels Classifieds Real Estate Guide Weather Subscribe Contact Us January 29, 2005 Trinity organ serves for 25 years By Bill Choy Ashland Daily Tidings For 25 years, the Karl Wilhelm tracker pipe organ at Trinity Episcopal Church in Ashland has provided sweet music for the community. The 25-year service of THis Karl Wilhelm tracker pipe organ will be celebrated Sunday at Trinity Episcopal Church. Submitted photo On Sunday, the church will celebrate the anniversary of the organ with a concert to demonstrate the strengths of the small two-manual organ, including solo, accompaniment, and congregational hymn singing. Church organist Jodi French and Margaret Evans, former organist at the church and the Southern Oregon University organist, and alto Barbara E. O'Donnell will perform. Suzanne Lang, event organizer, church member for 39 years, and church organist from 1968 to 1981 said it's exciting to be commemorating the organ's anniversary. "It's a very satisfying feeling that the organ has served us so well," she said. "We get to hear it every Sunday and we want the rest of the world to hear it and share the wealth of this instrument." The pipe organ was built by Karl Wilhelm of Quebec, Canada and the first Trinity church will use the organ on All Saints' Sunday. Lang said the organs of Wilhelm are in great demand because he stayed true to principles established in the 17th and 18th centuries with regard to the tier of the divisions, mechanical action, suspended action, and flexible wind pressure of the organ. To build and install the organ cost $40,000, with the funds coming from a capital campaign. Lang said the organ was specifically designed for the church space in mind. "You don't go into a shop and say 'I'll take that one.' There's a lot of design issues with organs," she said. Evans, now church organist at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Medford, said she always enjoys playing the organ at Trinity. She said it was the first mechanical action instrument in the valley. "It fills the room nicely and it's versatile," she said. "It's fun to play. ... It will last for hundreds of years and shows no signs of wear and tear." Evans said she will play a variety of music from baroque to contemporary, and a lot of fun, upbeat music, unlike the somber, funeral-like music some may expect from an organ, she said. "I hope to show the joy the music can bring," she said. The concert will be at 3 p.m. Sunday at the church, located at 44 North Second Street. The show is free, with a $10 donation requested at the door. A reception in the parish hall will follow. DailyTidings.com Home Page Archives | Revels | Classifieds | Real Estate Guide | Weather | Subscribe | Contact Us Copyright 2005 Ashland Daily Tidings and Ottaway Newspapers All Rights Reserved Slippers Women's Slippers men's slippers Ceramic Piggy Banks heloc libor rate Calenders 2005 Calender 2005 Accelerate Weight Loss Programs Memory Foam Mattress college loans alternative student loans Matchmaking & Dating Scripts Adventure Travel Conference Calls - $50/Month Security Systems student loan consolidation trillion cut diamonds Currancy Exchange Click Here Site Search: .:Advertisements:. RESOURCES - Mail Tribune News - ODOT Road Cams