The pipe organ at Our Lady of Refuge, Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, New York, recently underwent a complete repair and restoration, through a collaboration of A.R. Schopp’s Sons and Quimby Pipe Organs, Inc.
The project was initiated in 2006 by Fr. Joseph Perry and Joe Vitacco. Vitacco utilized the Internet, building a website for the parish and enlisting social media to raise funds to restore the organ. In 2013 the organ was returned to the building, which had received architectural and acoustical improvements.
The organ will be heard in a recital series, Fridays at 7:30 p.m.:
May 2, Johann Vexo plays works of Duruflé;
September 5, Craig Cramer, with trumpet;
October 17, Todd Wilson accompanies the 1925 film The Phantom of the Opera;
November 21, Thierry Escaich.
For information: www.olrbrooklyn.org/pipeorgan/index.php.
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