Skinner Pipe Organ
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One-and-a-half years after the dedication of a new edifice, St. Thomas More University Parish and Student Center has launched a campaign to fund the refurbishment of a historic pipe organ. Originally built in 1923 by the Ernest M. Skinner Organ Company for First Presbyterian Church of Stamford, Connecticut, this instrument boasts more than 1,800 pipes. Played in recital by Marcel Dupre, then organist at Notre-Dame, Paris, and Virgil Fox, this instrument has a long and storied history in the church music world.
Under the leadership of the Reverend James Aubrey Goins, St. Thomas More’s new chapel at the University of Oklahoma is home to historic art and sanctuary furnishings reclaimed from closed churches, giving voice to generations past. This pipe organ is part of that vision.
The organ will be refurbished by the Schantz Organ Company of Orrville, Ohio, and St. Thomas More has raised half of the $751,000 necessary to bring this instrument back to life before its 100th birthday.
Donations can be made securly online by clicking here.
For more information, contact Nolan Patrick Reilly, Organist and Director of Music by emailing music@stm-ou.org or calling 405.321.0990.
Pax Christi,
Nolan Patrick Reilly
Organist and Director of Music
