Joseph W. Screiber Memorial Organ

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The Joseph W. Screiber Memorial Organ is an 86-rank pipe organ completed in 2012 in Independent Presbyterian Church. It is opus 90 of Dobson Organ Builders of Lake City, Iowa, and includes 16 ranks from the church's earlier Aeolian-Skinner organ. It is named for Joseph W. Schreiber. He served as the church's organist and choirmaster for 34 years and died in 2007. Schreiber established the church's annual Religious Arts Festival in held each Feburary in 1972 and its annual November Organ Recital Series in 1965.

References

  • "Op. 90" (March 2012) The American Organist, pp. 12-17.
  • Garrison, Greg (May 5, 2012) "New organ at Independent Presbyterian Church tuned to engage heart, spirit" The Birmingham News