March 20, 2015
Quimby Pipe Organs announces the signing of a contract to install a new five-manual and pedal organ of 143 ranks at Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chicago, Illinois. The new instrument, which makes limited use of extant pipework from the church’s former 1914 Skinner and 1971 Aeolian-Skinner organs, is conceived as an American symphonic organ, with English Romantic leanings. Casework from the 1914 Skinner and 1992 south transept Goulding & Wood façades is being retained, with new casework constructed for installation in the north transept.
Project completion is scheduled for November 2015. For information: quimbypipeorgans.com.
Fourth Presbyterian Church organ case (courtesy of and with permission from Fourth Presbyterian Church)
