Franklin Gearing Up for Annual Christmas Concert
FRANKLIN—A Hometown Christmas Concert, continuing the tradition of more than a quarter century, will return to St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Franklin on Saturday, December 20 at 6 p.m. For those who arrive early, guest organist Al Fedak will perform a prelude of original Christmas selections beginning at 5:45.
According to a press release, this prelude will be played on the newly-installed John Gale Marklove pipe organ. His Opus 151 has six ranks, two divisions, one manual, six stops and 11 registers. This historic organ was gifted to St. Paul’s by the Episcopal Diocese of Syracuse and came from St. George’s Episcopal Church in Chadwicks, Oneida County, which closed in 2021. It was designed and built by this renowned Utica craftsman in 1889 and was installed in St. George’s in 1891. While Marklove built more than 250 pipe organs, this is one of only 20 that survive.
