Halloween Organ Spooktacular Oct. 27 at Lewis University

ROMEOVILLE, IL — Lewis University Department of Music and the American Guild of Organists will present a Halloween Organ Spooktacular at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 27 in St. Charles Borromeo Convocation Hall on the Romeoville campus of Lewis University. Admission is free.

Dr. Lawrence Sisk, professor of music at Lewis University, will host a program played by the Southwest Suburban chapter of the American Guild of Organists members. Organists Dick Siegel, Chris Siegel, Mark Downey, Ben Amenta, John MacKey, Catherine Griesmeye, Joe Gonzales and Sharon Fisher will perform music evocative of the Halloween spirit, including the famous Toccata and Fugue in D minor of J. S. Bach, Saint-Saens’s Danse macabre, Gounod’s “Funeral March of a Marionette” and “The Ghost and Mr. Chicken” by Vic Mizzy.

This annual event is presented in memory of Thomas Secor, former dean of the chapter and a generous benefactor of the fine arts at Lewis University. Secor served for 20 years as organist and music director at St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church in Lockport and accompanied the Lewis University Choir.

Submitted by Lewis University