AUBURN — Phil House is coming up on a year of milestones. Thirty years playing organ at the First Universalist Church of Auburn. Thirty years playing weddings at the All Souls Chapel at the Poland Spring Resort. Thirty years playing in the Monday night Sunset Concert Series with good friend Kathy Haley of Danville. House […]
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The majestic Casavant organ
Celebrating the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul In 1916, the renowned pipe organ builders Casavant Freres of Saint-Hyacinthe, Canada, installed a three-manual (three keyboard) organ, the Opus 665, in the basement of the half-finished St. Peter’s Church. Twenty-two years later, Dominican brothers — who came from that same southwestern Quebec town and were overseeing […]
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Scattering CJ: Changing lives around the world
Post by Scattering CJ. Frattini, a former U.S. Marine, New York building contractor and TV personality, immediately texted his teenage son at school to say, “I love you.” They’d had their own terrible argument that morning — among the worst Frattini could remember — and he vowed never again to let anger come between him and […]
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Diocese to bless, dedicate pipe organ in Lewiston on Saturday
LEWISTON — The pipe organ originally housed in Notre Dame de Lourdes Church in Saco will be blessed and dedicated at its new home in the crypt chapel of the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul during a Mass in the chapel at 4 p.m. Saturday, June 28. The Mass will be celebrated in French. […]