Presented in Partnership with Overture Center for the Arts

Bring your pipes and your friends and family to raise a joyful noise with the Overture Concert Organ. The Hymn Sings are free and open to the public. All ages are welcome, and no tickets or reservations are needed. Each Hymn Sing takes place in Overture Hall and lasts 45 minutes to one hour. For more information, please contact the MSO at 608.257.3734 or info@madisonsymphony.org.

Deborah Krauss Smith has served congregations of varying denominations in Monroe, Eau Claire, and Madison as a church musician for over 40 years. Currently, Deb is Organist/Director of Music Ministries at St. John's United Church of Christ in Monroe. A vocal music education graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Deb has a double applied major in both organ and voice, having begun organ studies in Monroe with Merruth Seaton, continuing with Jerry Evenrud and David O. Parsons at UW-EC, and then for many years with Lawrence G. Kelliher, formerly longtime Organist/Music Director of Bethel Lutheran Church in Madison. In 2002, she established Midday Masterworks, a quarterly free noontime organ mini-recital series in Monroe, for which she continues to serve as principal organist. A member of the American Guild of Organists, Deb has also served on the board of directors of the Madison-based Association of Church Musicians (ACM), and currently is ACM's webmaster and e-mail database coordinator. The granddaughter of Swiss and German emigrants to Green County, she has directed the Monroe Swiss Singers mixed choir since 1985 and the Männerchor New Glarus from 1995 through 2006. Deb and her husband, Greg, live with an assortment of cats, dogs and goats on their 160-acre grain farm north of Monroe.