The 2025 “Music at Noon” concert series at Lexington Presbyterian Church will conclude with a program of Christmas music on Thursday, Dec. 18, at noon in the church sanctuary.
William McCorkle, organist/director of music at Lexington Presbyterian, will present a series of extemporaneous improvisations on melodies of the Christmas season. This event has become a Christmas tradition for McCorkle and the community.
The “Music at Noon” series of half-hour concerts has been offered for decades at Lexington Presbyterian Church, and often presents music corresponding to the church year. Many concerts display the church’s C. B. Fisk pipe organ, opus 128 (2007). Noontime performances in 2025 have included Epiphany, Holy Week, Thanksgiving, Advent, and Christmas organ programs, and vocal/keyboard collaborations by McCorkle will area tenors Scott Williamson and Adam Williams.
Said McCorkle, “I am gratified and humbled by the longevity and popularity of the ‘Music at Noon” programs, which originated in the 1980s as an opportunity to continue and build the long history of community outreach through music of Lexington Presbyterian Church. The concerts continued even after the disastrous church fire of 2000, when other churches in town allowed us to offer programs of ‘Music in Exile.’”
