This combined project between the FW and DFW AGO Chapters is a good opportunity to make new friends!
SCHEDULE
9:15 am: Christ the King - 8017 Preston Road
10:15 am: Perkins Chapel, SMU - 6106 Bishop Blvd.
11:15 am: Caruth Auditorium - SMU
12:00 pm: Lunch (Lunch at Kirby Hall, Donations accepted!)
Fort Worth AGO: Please let Clive Driskill-Smith at clive@asecfw.org know if you plan to attend the organ crawl and if you plan to eat lunch (sandwiches provided) so that there is an approximate count. Please plan to bring a cash donation.
1:00 pm: St. Thomas Aquinas - 6303 Kenwood Ave.
From Rene Schmidt, Dallas AGO Sub-Dean:
We will begin our organ crawl at Christ the King Catholic Church where we will hear and play the fabulous 2014 Juget-Sinclair Organ at 9:15. This mechanical, three manual, French inspired instrument is in a perfect acoustic setting. Juget-Sinclair Organbuilders is a small Canadian firm dedicated to producing high quality mechanical action organs.
Our next stop will be Perkins Chapel at SMU at 10:15. The chapel has a rare, historic Skinner instrument that was originally installed in 1927 for Fourth Presbyterian in New York. In 1953 the building was sold to a Greek Orthodox Church. Since the organ had no liturgical place in the Orthodox Church , the Skinner sat unused and unloved for years. A blessing in disguise, it never was altered or “modernized.”
In 2018, a steam pipe broke in Perkins and destroyed the chapel’s Aeolian-Skinner instrument. Subsequently the Skinner from the Greek Orthodox Church was purchased, installed, and restored in 2023.
Next door in SMU’s Caruth Auditorium is the Fisk, Opus 101, which we will visit at 11:15. Dedicated in 1993, this stunning instrument represents 9 years of planning, and was one of the culminations of Dr. Robert Anderson’s tenure at SMU.
Lunch will be in Kirby Hall at SMU. Donations accepted!
After lunch, we will visit the Schudi-Casavant organ at St. Thomas Aquinas at 1:00.
The organ was installed in 1978, and a complete restoration was begun in 2023. The instrument was enlarged using Marvin Judy’s long-term vision for the organ: a new Récit-expressif division in a modified Cavaillé-Coll style.
