The organ is Opus #18 of The Faucher Organ Company, Inc.

This digitally recorded and mastered CD is available for anyone who donates $10 or more to the ministry of First Church. Send a check (made out to First Church - CD) to First Church Congregational, 63 South Main Street, Rochester NH 03867-2707. We'll send a copy of the CD right out to you.

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Nine pieces: A Trumpet Minuet (Hollins), Concerto No. 5 in F Major (Handel), Toccata in D Minor ( Buxtehude), Prelude, Fugue and Variation, (Franck), Prelude and Fugue in G Major (Bach), Wondrous Love (Pinkham), Canzona (Purvis), Prelude on "Kremser" (Philips), and Carillon de Westminster (Vierne).

John Skelton played this live concert on November 15, 1997.

The event was the dedication of our new pipe organ - Opus #18 of the Faucher Organ Company. The new organ has 19 stops, 24 independent ranks, and 43 stop registers. Specifications of the Organ

John Skelton is Director of Music at the Maple Street Congregational Church in Danvers MA. He is on the music faculty at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, and at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. He received his Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from the New England Conservatory of Music.