Organ concert
The ESU Music Department is presenting a free Christmas Organ Concert by Don Carr of Ottawa at 3 p.m. Sunday in Albert Taylor Hall on the ESU campus. Carr will give a full recital on the recently refurbished organ. The concert will feature two Bach chorales, Felix Borowski’s third sonata, Vaughan-Williams, Barber and Richard Purvis’s “Carol Rhapsody.”
Carr retired from Ottawa University in 2004 after seven years as chairman of the piano and organ department. He has been coming to Emporia several times a week for the last three years to accompany music students at the university. He has worked with students of Penelope Speedie and Stanford Felix in the voice department and Dawn McConkie-Courtney in the woodwind department. Carr has played organ for 57 years as a recitalist, in churches, and in California, New York, much of Kansas and Georgia, and Scotland, Switzerland, Salzburg and St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna, Austria.
Christmas Concert
The Emporia Municipal Band will hold a Christmas Concert at the Granada Theater at 3 p.m. Sunday. This second annual benefit concert features the same ensemble responsible for the summer concert series in Fremont park. The Granada is located at 805 Commercial in downtown Emporia. The concession stand will be open.
Art gifts
The Emporia Arts Council is featuring its 12th annual Art Gifts shop, which will be open through Dec. 31. Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays. Fifty local and regional artists are offering art items, including glass, ceramics, paintings, textiles, jewelry and wood. Art Gifts will be closed Dec. 25 and 26. For more information, call 343-6473.