As a part of the Lancaster Summer Arts Festival, the Lancaster Chapter of the American Guild of Organists (AGO) will host a free recital at the First United Methodist Church, 29 E. Walnut St., Lancaster, on Thursday, June 8, at 7 p.m. Local organists will play the expanded and refurbished 1959 Moller pipe organ to raise funds for AGO's scholarship efforts. For over 50 years, the Lancaster Chapter's members have offered their talents in this concert for the benefit of the community and to provide scholarships for young people to take organ lessons.

Music selections will range from some of the earliest works of J.S. Bach to recent works by American composers. In addition to performances by Deborah Berdos, Joy Ide, Margaret Marsch, Frank Dodd, Christopher Prestia, Ross Ellison, and host organist Peter Omundsen, the father-daughter duet of Drs. Karl and Cindy Moyer will perform Josef Rheinberger's "Adagio and Fugue." The concert will close with Ross Ellison performing Max Reger's great "Introduction and Fugue in D minor."

One scholarship winner, Tyler Velkley, will perform Cesar Franck's "Prelude, Fugue, and Variation." Tyler studies with Murray Foreman and will major in organ and church music in college this fall. Gregory Gehman, organist of Muddy Creek Evangelical Lutheran Church, is dean of the chapter.

Parking can be found in the lot between the church and Lemon Street. A freewill offering will be received to support the Guild's scholarship funds, which provide scholarships for young people to take organ lessons.

For more details, contact the Guild's publicity chairman, Kyle Postlethwait, at kyle.p@comcast.net or visit http://www.lancasterago.org.