Providing Summer Organ Concerts, Educational Tours, and Community Outreach since 1992.
St. John’s Organ Society is a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and appreciation of E. & G. G. Hook’s Opus 288 (1860) built for St. John’s Roman Catholic Church in Bangor, Maine.
The St. John’s Organ Society hosts a summer concert series and two international concerts each year, as well as occasional special events.
On Tuesday, October 15, 2024, at 7:30 pm, concert and recording organist Luc Beauséjour will perform a concert titled “The Recall of the Birds” featuring music of Couperin, Dornel, Dandrieu, and Rameau on the historic organ at St. John’s Catholic Church (207 York St., Bangor).
Continue reading “Events”Your support of the St. John’s Organ Society is greatly appreciated. Your tax-deductible donation will enable us to continue and expand our efforts to share the beauties of E. & G. G. Hook’s Opus 288 through public concerts (Summer Organ Concert Series and a mid-winter International Artist Concert), education, and community outreach.
By Carlton Russell
In 1993, a year after being appointed Director of Music and Organist of St. John’s Catholic Church, Kevin Birch established the St. John’s Organ Society, an organization committed to the preservation and appreciation of the church’s beautiful and historic E. & G. G. Hook pipe organ, Op. 288 (1860). This large instrument was described by John Fesperman, Curator Emeritus of Musical Instruments at the Smithsonian Institution, as “a musical monument of great importance”, and by Alan Laufman, past president of the Organ Historical Society, as “a national treasure.”
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