Parallel

Twenty-eight years to the day after I played a particular prelude for a church service at Church of the Resurrection, Blue Springs, I played it again at Glendale Presbyterian Church, Saint Louis.

And Sunday marked my first time on an organ bench for a church service in at least a decade after I had a disastrous day subbing on a tracker-action organ in Clayton some years ago.

Do understand: being away from a pipe organ in a church service for a decade is not like being off of a bike for that amount of time. You don’t suddenly have good pedaling skills all over again!

But a joyful noise was made, the Wicks pipe got their wind in them, and the congregation loved having the organ for singing. And for the “Wachet auf” prelude and the John Leavitt fun-of-a-postlude.