2023 East Texas Pipe Organ Festival
November 5-9, 2023
Complete Schedule of Public Events
All Concerts are Free of Charge
Sunday, November 5
8:00 p.m. Opening Concert
Clara Bartz
First Presbyterian Church
815 E. Main St., Kilgore, Texas
Monday, November 6
10:00 a.m. Organ Recital
Grant Smith
St. Luke's Methodist Church
401 E. Main St., Kilgore
3:00 p.m. Organ Recital
Marshall Joos
St. Luke’s Methodist Church,
Kilgore
8:00 p.m. Organ Recital
Christopher Marks
First Presbyterian Church, Kilgore
Tuesday, November 7
10:00 a.m. Organ Recital
Emily Amos
First United Methodist Church
400 N. Fredonia St., Longview, Texas
2:00 p.m. Organ Recital
Elena Baquerizo
First United Methodist Church, Longview
4:00 p.m. Organ Recital
George Bozeman
Trinity Episcopal Church
906 Padon St., Longview
8:00 p.m. Organ and Violin Recital
Ken Cowan, organ
Lisa Shihoten, violin
Chan Teague, tympani
First Presbyterian Church, Kilgore
Wednesday, November 8
10:00 a.m. Organ Recital
Scott Dettra
First Presbyterian Church, Kilgore
2:00 p.m. Organ Recital
Joby Bell
St. Luke's United Methodist Church
Kilgore
Thursday, November 9
10:00 a.m. Organ Recital
David Hurd
St. Mark’s Cathedral,
908 Rutherford St.
Shreveport, Louisiana
2:00 p.m. Organ Recital
Frederick Teardo
St. Mark’s Cathedral, Shreveport
4:00 p.m. Organ Recital Honoring the Life of William Teague
Richard Elliott
St. Mark’s Cathedral, Shreveport
8:00 p.m. Silent Movie
“The Camerman,”
Starring Buster Keaton
Clark Wilson, organist
First Presbyterian Church, Kilgore
Our contact information:
East Texas Pipe Organ Festival
P. O. Box 2069 - Kilgore, Texas 75663-2069
Email: EastTexasPipeOrganFestival@gmail.com
Tax deductible donations may be sent to
The Roy Perry American Classic Organ Foundation (RPACOF)
P. O. Box 2069
Kilgore, TX 75663
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EAST TEXAS PIPE ORGAN FESTIVAL
Honoring the Life and Work of Roy Perry (1906- 1978)
ROY PERRY (1906-1978) was organist-choirmaster at First Presbyterian Church, Kilgore, Texas from 1932 to 1972. After meeting G. Donald Harrison, Mr. Perry worked for Aeolian-Skinner as a sales representative, designer, and tonal finisher, and was responsible for many of the company’s instruments throughout Texas and the South, working with T. J. Williams and his family of organ technicians from New Orleans. In this capacity, Mr. Perry designed and finished organs in Harrison’s concept of the American Classic Organ and developed his skills as a tonal finisher. It was in this latter area that he excelled, and his organs are characterized by unusual polish and coherence both in the build-up of stops and within the individual ranks.
As a designer, he had influence over the organs he sold, and he developed many theories in pipe scaling and in the complex composition of mixture stops, but was probably best known in his field as a designer and finisher of string celeste tone of the most notable character and beauty. These latter elements are especially evident in his last major work, the supervision of the three-year renovation (1973-1975) of the Great Organ in Washington Cathedral, where, among his many tasks, he designed two sets of specially scaled wide-mouth string celestes – a construction unique to that installation.
Throughout his career as an organ builder, Roy Perry remained most dedicated to the preparation and performance of church music of the highest caliber, and he taught the legacies and principles of church music to those who passed through his choir and congregation.
Email: EastTexasPipeOrganFestival@gmail.com