The Religion Notes column in The Sun Friday listed an incorrect date for a free concert in Pikesville by organist Margaret Budd. The concert will be at 4 p.m. next Sunday, Nov. 20, at St. Mark's-on-the-Hill Episcopal Church, 1620 Reisterstown Road.
The Sun regrets the errors.
The acclaimed pipe organs of Henry Niemann, who built his instruments in Baltimore between 1872 and 1899, once filled 40 local churches with their music. Only seven of the organs remain in use.
The smallest of them belongs to Old Otterbein United Methodist Church at Sharp and Conway streets, west of the Inner Harbor.
After 10 months of restoration costing $60,000, the instrument is being heard again.
About $35,000 of the cost of the repairs was raised through the congregation's sales of peanuts to baseball fans at nearby Oriole Park at Camden Yards.
The Otterbein church, built in 1785, is the city's oldest surviving one.
The organ, installed in 1896 at a cost of $1,500, was dismantled in January and moved to the Woodberry shop of David M. Storey, who replaced brittle reeds and bellows.
Experts from the Smithsonian Institution discovered under the gold paint on the pipes the original bright colors and design, which have been restored by Baltimore artist Betsy Greene.
When the Organ Historical Society met in Baltimore two years ago, its members designated the Niemann organ as "an instrument of exceptional historic merit worthy of preservation." Thanks to fees for weddings and gifts from members and friends Old Otterbein's congregation as well as the sale of peanuts, this has been accomplished.
The organ is not the only fine musical instrument at Old Otterbein.
The church's 68-year-old Mason-Hamlin grand piano, recently restored and refinished, will be heard in a dedicatory recital by Virginia Reinecke at 3 p.m. Nov. 20.
& Information: 685-4703.
Responding to violence:
John Howard Yoder, a professor at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana who is considered the foremost Anabaptist/Mennonite theologian, will give this year's Dunning Lecture at 8 p.m. Monday at the Ecumenical Institute of St. Mary's Seminary and University, 5400 Roland Ave.
The public is invited.
From 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. the same day, Professor Yoder will lead a workshop at the institute for clergy and laity of all faiths on "Pastoral and Congregational Responses to a Violent Society."
Advance registration is recommended for the workshop, which includes lunch.
The evening lecture, titled "Christian Social Witness: The New Humanity as Pulpit and Paradigm," is free.
& Information: 323-1463.
Jewish immigration:
"A History of Jewish Women's Immigration to America and Their Evolving Role" is the subject of a lecture by University of Maryland professor Hasia R. Diner at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Peggy and Yale Gordon Chapel of Temple Oheb Shalom, 7310 Park Heights Ave.
The free, public lecture is part of the Rabbis' Chapel Series at the Baltimore temple.
& Information: 358-0105.
Homecoming:
Past members are invited to join present ones at St. Veronica's Roman Catholic Church in Cherry Hill for a 50th anniversary celebration Sunday.
The opening Mass is to be offered at 10 a.m. A dinner for adults and children will be served at 1 p.m.
The church, staffed by the Josephite Fathers and Brothers, is at 806 Cherry Hill Road.
7+ Information and registration: 355-7466.
Pikesville recital:
Margaret Budd, organist at Baltimore's Second Presbyterian Church, will perform at 4 p.m. Sunday in a free concert at St. Mark's-on-the-Hill Episcopal Church, 1620 Reisterstown Road in Pikesville. Information: 486-3016.
Biblical healing:
A program on "The Healing Stories" in the Bible will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Mount St. Agnes Theological Center for Women at 5707 Smith Ave.
At the same time and place on the following Wednesday, a healing prayer service will be conducted.
7+ Information and registration: 466-6039.
Singers from Virginia:
"The Light Singers," a group of gospel musicians from Liberty Baptist University in Lynchburg, Va., will perform in a free concert at 7 p.m. Sunday at North Glen Baptist Church, 508 Furnace Branch Road in Glen Burnie.
& Information: 761-3169.