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Opening Convocation and Organ Dedication

Download or listen to recordings of the Divinity School’s Opening Convocation service, a panel discussion on the new Goodson Chapel Organ, and the organ’s dedicatory recital

Sept. 16, 2008

David Arcus, Goodson Chapel organist and associate university organist, plays the new organ on Aug. 26

This Divinity School’s 2008 Opening Convocation on Aug. 26 included preaching by Dean L. Gregory Jones and a Service of Dedication for the new Goodson Chapel Organ. Duke President Richard H. Brodhead officially accepted the organ from builders Richards, Fowkes & Co. Organ Builders of Ooltewah, Tenn.
Listen to or download the service in iTunes.

A panel discussion with the organ builders and David Arcus, Goodson Chapel organist and associate university organist, followed the service.
Listen to or download the panel discussion in iTunes.

Arcus also played a dedicatory recital at 4 p.m. Listen to or download the recital in iTunes.

The organ, which features both Gothic and neo-Gothic influences, is approximately 30 feet tall and contains more than 1,800 pipes. Read more about the organ.