01 Mar 2019

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Congratulations to St. Peter’s on their New Organ! Listen to it SOON!

Update: Although the organ is it its new home, it will not be fully operational for the concert on March 4th. You can listen to it during the April noontime cantata series.

Let’s put aside your possible feelings about religion for a minute and focus on the beauty and majesty of the best instrument ever assembled: the organ. Also called an aerophone, an organ is not just an instrument but a piece of architecture, as every single tone has a pipe through which air is forced, producing that rich, heavenly sound that is solemnity personified. Why am I going on and on about organs? Because St. Peter’s Catholic Church, 313 2nd Street SE, recently got a new one and they want to share its beauty with the neighborhood. According to Molly Pannell, who is the development and communications coordinator at St. Peter’s, the old organ was badly damaged by falling debris in the 2001 earthquake. The organ had been at the church since the early 1900s.

We look forward to hearing the new organ in the Washington Bach Consort Noontime Concert series coming to St. Peter’s, starting Monday, March 4. This free concert series will take place the first Monday of the month through May. For more information, click here.

The photos below are courtesy of St. Peter’s and Bridget Janney Photography:

The scale of the organ is just massive. That’s one part of the keyboard.
As you can see, scaffolding is required to put every tube together.
Organ pieces as they arrived, Monday, February 18, 2019. It took about five hours to assemble the organ in its new home. The organ was made by the Noack Organ Company.
The keyboards are a thing of beauty. And every single one of those keys is connected to its very own pipe. That’s a lot of keys.


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