Karl Boettcher of Dallas, Texas, and his work crew recently disassembled the organ which has been integral to Concordia's Heine Recital Hall for the past 40 years. The organ was shipped to Texas, rebuilt and installed at Lord of Life Lutheran Church in Plano, Texas.
The removed organ makes way for the installation of a new recital hall organ, Opus 3868 of Casavant Frères, Ltd., the oldest continuing organ builders in North America. The 3-manual, 38-rank organ will have 2,171 pipes. It will be completely assembled in the Casavant workshop in Quebec, tested, disassembled and shipped to Seward in semi trailers. Casavant will then spend approximately seven weeks on campus assembling the organ and completing the voicing process by manipulating each pipe to alter its tone to fit Heine Recital Hall.
According to Dr. Jeffrey Blersch, music department chair, the new organ “will stand for generations as a work of both visual and musical beauty.”
