AUBURN — The Court Street Baptist Church, 129 Court St., will be the venue for The Summer Keyboard Concert at 6 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 26.
The featured pianist, Glenda Winkle-Morrow, is a composer and arranger from Missouri. She graduated from Missouri State University, where she was named Outstanding Senior Music Major, and was awarded the Mu Phi Epsilon Outstanding Achievement Award. Winkle-Morrow earned her Master of Music degree in piano performance from Northwestern University. She is Professor Emeritus at Central Bible College, and has presented workshops and performed concerts throughout the United States and Canada. Winkle-Morrow is a board member of the Mark Thallander Foundation.
Organist Mark Thallander also will perform. Thallander, president of the Mark Thallander Foundation, was organist at The Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, Calif., for 18 years, and later associate minister of music at Menlo Park (Calif.) Presbyterian Church and assistant professor of music at Vanguard University of Southern California, Cost Mesa. In August 2003, while vacationing in Maine, he lost an arm in an automobile accident on the Maine Turnpike, but has masterfully rewritten organ music so it sounds as if he is playing with two hands and feet during concerts he performs throughout North America.
A graduate of Central Bible College, Vanguard University, and California State University, Long Beach, Thallander is the subject of the book, “Champions,” and was honored in 2004 with The Crystal Cathedral’s annual Life’s Not Fair But God is Good Award. Earlier this year, he released “Grace and Peace,” a music CD with companion book of lyrics and scripture verses.
Kathleen Haley also will be on the program. Haley attended the University of Southern Maine, and is a well known Maine musician and singer. Early in her career, she was a member of the folk group The Chord Majority and founding member and lead singer of the Good & Plenty band. Haley has served as assistant conductor of the Delta Heart Choir, Thallander Foundation concert sectional rehearsal leader, director of music for several churches in Southern Maine and now is organist/choir director at the Court Street Baptist Church.
A free will offering will be received. Refreshments will be served during a fellowship time following the concert.



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