Help Restore the Pipe Organ at Our Lady of Refuge    
 
On February 3, 2007 the University of Notre Dame’s Women’s Choir, directed by Andy McShane, sang the 5 p.m. Mass as a benefit for the organ restoration fund of Our Lady of Refuge in Brooklyn, New York. This historic 74-year-old pipe organ has been silent for many years, but had been put into good playing condition for the benefit Mass by the well respected organbuilder Jim Konzelman, of Maplewood, N.J. The Mass started with a short organ recital. The Ordinary of the Mass was by Gabriel Fauré. Ave Maris Stella was sung at the Offertory, with organ versets by Marcel Dupré in alternatim with the choir. Fr. Patrick Maloney, C.S.C., from the Notre Dame Campus concelebrated the Mass with Fr. Michael Perry, the Pastor of the Church, and Fr. Maloney delivered the homily. Craig Whitney, Assistant Managing Editor of the New York Times, an excellent amateur organist and author of “All the Stops: The Glorious Pipe Organ and Its American Masters,” spoke briefly about the parish’s historic Kilgen pipe organ at the end of the Mass. Stephen Tharp (a renown concert organist) and Jennifer Pascual (Music Director at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral) were the two organist for the Mass. The parish needs to raise $200,000 to properly store and protect the instrument during major construction work around the pipe organ and to fully restore it so it will last for future generations of this very active parish. You can make a donation by going to The Notre Dame Club of New York’s Website and look for Our Lady of Refuge Organ Fund Banner or call the rectory of the church at 718 434 2090. Any contribution will be greatly appreciated. Our Lady of Refuge, RC 2020 Foster Ave Brooklyn, NY 11210http://www.ndnyc.orgshapeimage_1_link_0
University of Notre Dame’s Women’s Liturgical Choir
at Our Lady of Refuge Church in Brooklyn, New York
Saturday, February 3, 2007