Saints & Sinners Concert

Description

After many years of silence, the Estey Opus 1429 organ at the Clatsop Community College Performing Arts Center (PAC), 588 16th Street, Astoria OR, will gloriously sound again. An inaugural concert for the newly repaired instrument entitled ?Saints and Sinners? will be held Saturday, November 2 at 2pm. Tickets are on sale through www.brownpapertickets.com for $25 with a small processing charge. Any remaining tickets will be available at the door on November 2 beginning at 1pm. Proceeds from this benefit concert will be shared by the Save the PAC Fund and the Clatsop Community College Foundation Scholarship Fund. The concert features three visiting organists. Jason Neumann-Grable has been working on repair of the organ since last December. He will briefly describe his process and give a short demonstration of the organ?s restored capacity. Neumann-Grable completed his degree in music at the University of Oregon with a minor in Organ Performance. He worked with the Rodgers Organ Company for 12 years as Tonal Director, and has served as a church organist for 48 years. He has worked on organs in Carnegie Hall, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan and Italy as well as many instruments throughout the Pacific Northwest.