Summerall Chapel Organ Project

Bring back the glory of a Pipe Organ befitting of the
grandeur and majestic history of Summerall Chapel.
Your help is needed today!

“The Organ is in truth the grandest, the most daring, the most magnificent of all instruments invented by human genius.  It is a whole orchestra in itself.  It can express anything in response to a skilled touch.  Surely it has in some sort a pedestal on which the soul poises for flight forth into space, essaying on her course to draw picture after picture in an endless series, to paint human life, to cross the Infinite that separates heaven from earth?”  And the longer a dreamer listens to those giant harmonies, the better he realizes that nothing save this hundred voiced choir on earth can fill all the space between kneeling men and a God hidden by the blinding light of the sanctuary.  The music is the one interpreter strong enough to bear up the prayers of humanity to heaven, prayer in its omnipotent moods, prayer tinged by the melancholy of different natures, colored by meditative ecstasy, upspringing with the impulse of repentance-blended with the myriad of fancies of every creed.  Yes.  In those long vaulted aisles the melodies inspired by the sense of things divine are blent with a grandeur unknown before, are decked with glory and might.  Out of the dim daylight, and the deep silence broken by the chanting of choir in response to the thunder of an Organ, a veil is woven for God, and the brightness of His attributes shines through it” quotation by Honore de Balzac in a publication by George Ashdown Audsley. The Art of Organ Building, New York, Dover Publications, 1965 (This Dover edition, first published in 1965, is an unabridged and corrected republication of the work first published by Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, in 1905.)