Worship, Music and Fine Arts
The Religious Arts Festival, hosted by the church in February of each year, is in its 41st year and brings lecturers and musicians to Birmingham. The November Organ Recital Series, now in its 47th year, has brought talented organists to the city for recitals and choral performances. The church has commissioned and installed an 87 rank, five-division, three-manual pipe organ manufactured by the Dobson Pipe Organ Builders of Lake City, Iowa, the first Dobson instrument in the State of Alabama, and one of the largest built by that company. The Dobson is named in honor of former organist and choirmaster Joseph W. Schreiber and was dedicated during a series of concerts in May, 2012, culminating in a performance of the Brahms Requiem by members of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra and the 100 member IPC alumni choir. Worship at IPC includes traditional worship, services for the liturgical year and periodic evensong.
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Famous quotes containing the words music, fine and/or arts:
“I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man: wine is not so noble a liquor; and think of dashing the hopes of a morning with a cup of warm coffee, or of an evening with a dish of tea! Ah, how low I fall when I am tempted by them! Even music may be intoxicating. Such apparently slight causes destroyed Greece and Rome, and will destroy England and America.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“...many men choose a wife amid the deft-fingered clerks in preference to the society misses. The woman clerk has studied the value of concentration, learned the lesson that incites to work when a burden bears heavily upon her strength. She knows the word of self- reliance, and the fine courage that springs from the consciousness that a good result has been accomplished by a well-directed effort.”
—Clara (Marquise)
“Poetry, and Picture, are Arts of a like nature; and both are busie about imitation. It was excellently said of Plutarch, Poetry was a speaking Picture, and Picture a mute Poesie. For they both invent, faine, and devise many things, and accommodate all they invent to the use, and service of nature. Yet of the two, the Pen is more noble, than the Pencill. For that can speake to the Understanding; the other, but to the Sense.”
—Ben Jonson (1573–1637)