Glenkirk Presbyterian Organ Updated

The four-manual 70-rank Rodgers organ at Glenkirk Presbyterian Church in Glendora, California has been extensively updated with a new Rodgers console and 150 ranks of Rodgers Parallel Digital Imaging® technology digital pipe stops to complete the organ’s prepared-for divisions from its 1989 installation.

The enlarged instrument was dedicated on September 20 by Dr. Robert Tall, noted Southern California organist and president of Robert Tall & Associates, one of the world’s largest distributors of classical organs and digital music systems. Tall has served the American Guild of Organists as director of the Committee on National Conventions.

Originally dedicated on April 2,1989 by Frederick Swann, who served as consultant for Rodgers on the project, the organ was featured on the cover of the August 1991 issue of The American Organist. It is the second largest of a number of notable pipe instruments built by Rodgers in the 1980s.

The updated Glenkirk organ, now with more than 4,000 pipes, features a rear gallery Antiphonal Division and State Trumpet, plus very some quiet sounds on opposite sides of the gallery in the Ethereal Division. The crowning jewel of the instrument remains the flared bell brass Trompette en Chamade with its pipes installed horizontally in the front faςade.

Eric Shouse is Director of Worship at Glenkirk Presbyterian; Eric Mathis is organist and Pastor Jim Miller is the Senior Pastor.