Taylor Smith

Come see Organist Joseph Musser perform live on FPC’s Blanchard Pipe Organ. Musser’s recital will feature a wide variety of music and compositions from various historical periods. This recital is free and open to the public with no pre-booking required. A free-will offering will be offered benefiting First Presbyterian Church’s kitchen and laundry outreach programs that provide free services for our Delaware City community.

We are wheelchair accessible at the back door entrance (off of N. Washington St.) with elevator accessibility to the Sanctuary. Questions about your visit? Call or email the FPC office:

(740) 363-1205
delfirstpres@midohio.twcbc.com

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Organist Bio:
A Professor Emeritus of English at Ohio Wesleyan University, Dr. Musser was chair of the English Department for 23 years and retired from full-time teaching in 2014. He has been organist at the First Presbyterian Church since 1985 and also serves as Music Director. He began serving as a church organist when he was a junior in high school, and has served churches in Schenectady, NY, Charlottesville, VA, Lexington, KY, and Chautauqua, NY.

Musser has composed numerous organ chorales and partitas, anthems, a cello sonata, a recorder quartet, and trios for piano and woodwinds. He wrote the processionals for organ, brass quintet, and timpani for the inauguration of Ohio Wesleyan’s president, Rock Jones (2008). In 2015 he was commissioned to write and perform an organ composition celebrating the 130th anniversary of the Namdaemun Presbyterian Church in Seoul, South Korea, which traces its founding to Dr. Horace Allen, a medical missionary from Delaware, Ohio, who was a member of First Presbyterian as well as an Ohio Wesleyan alumnus.