Northwest Missouri State University’s Tower Choir will return to the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception at Conception Abbey to present a concert on Sunday, Oct. 5.
The Tower Choir is under the direction of Dr. Adam Zrust, an associate professor of music and the chair of Northwest’s School of Fine and Performing Arts.
The concert, which is free and open to the public, begins at 3 p.m. Conception Abbey is located 17 miles southeast of Maryville.
The Tower Choir is an audition-based choral ensemble that is consistently invited to state conferences. The ensemble performs concerts for high schools, colleges, universities, churches, institutions and organizations throughout the region.
About the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception
Completed in 1891, the basilica is considered one of the wonders of the four-state region and beyond. In 1999, the monastery completed a $9 million restoration of the structure and its historic Beuron murals.
With 2,009 pipes, the basilica organ was designed for Conception Abbey by M. L. Bigelow and Company of American Fork, Utah, and completed in 1997. The wood pipes were constructed by the Bigelow company while the majority of its metal pipes were produced in Zeist, Holland, by the firm of Jacques Stinkens. The largest metal pipe, the 16’ Prestant, is 18.5 feet tall, 10 inches in diameter and weighs nearly 400 pounds. The largest wood pipe is 16 feet tall, 19 inches wide and 22 inches deep. The organ also contains seven large wood pipes recycled from the 1911 Kimball organ that once stood in the Assembly Hall on Temple Square, Salt Lake City.
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