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St. Paul's in Willimantic
This page is intended to be our web connection to the greater Willimantic community and all of its people. To start, we would like to offer an invitation to all to come to the little stone church at the corner of Valley and Walnut on any Sunday. Visit for the service, for coffee afterwards or for a full breakfast on the first Sunday of the month. You will find a welcoming community, a place where it's safe to be yourself. The focus of this page is to help us bring God's love to everyone. And everyone means just that – rich, poor, student, immigrant, churched, unchurched, troubled, serene, Buddist, Muslim, Jewish, atheist, and on and on, all children of God, all equally loved by God. To that end we will be offering a Wednesday noon hour service. Beyond that we are exploring ways to serve the community - and especially its most troubled and vulnerable members. To that end we always are open to providing support or joining with other individuals and organizations in any appropriate effort. Feel free to contact us at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . Our limitations primarily are available time and resources. Organ RecitalA present to the greater Willimantic community: a recital on the Fisk organ, featuring Ms. Lois Pardue as guest organist. It took place on September 27, was well attended and enthusiastically received. Ms. Pardue has some serious credentials (see invitation below!) and her performance lived up to all expectations!!!
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church at 220 Valley Street in Willimantic will commemorate the 37th anniversary of the dedication of its C. B. Fisk organ with a recital by Avon organist Lois Pardue on Sunday, September 27th at 4:00 p.m. The recital is free, and all those interested in organ music are encouraged and cordially invited to attend.September 27th at 4:00 p.m. Ms. Pardue is a graduate of the famed Eastman School of Music, where she studied with Harold Gleason, earning both a Bachelor of Music degree with distinction and the Performer's Certificate in Organ; she also studied in France with the renowned organist André Marchal. During her career she has held positions as organist, assistant organist, and instructor at numerous churches, colleges, and universities around the country. She has taught organ at Vassar College, Wellesley College, and at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She was Assistant to the College Organist and Acting College Organist at Vassar College, and Assistant to the University Organist and Summer School Organist at Harvard University. From 1973 to 1995 Ms. Pardue served as organist at the First Baptist Church, UCC, in Bloomington, IN. In 1979 she became the Administrative Assistant in the Choral Department at University of Indiana’s School of Music. In December of 1995 she relocated to Connecticut, and shortly thereafter she began her service as organist at the West Avon Congregational Church. For her program, Ms. Pardue has chosen music by Couperin, J.S. Bach, Paul Hindemith, and the late German composer Hermann Schroeder. Featured work on the program will be Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in E-flat (the so-called “St. Anne”), which was performed when the Fisk organ was dedicated on September 24, 1972. |
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