MONROE - The eighth season of Midday Masterworks, an organ mini-recital series, will open on Wednesday, April 22, with a program titled "Odds 'n' Ends". The free half-hour program is at 12:15 p.m. at the United Methodist Church of Monroe featuring the 3-manual, 39-rank Berghaus organ, and repeated again at 5:30 p.m. at St. Victor Catholic Church on the Matthew Ronald Buholzer Memorial Organ, a Möller-Rodgers pipe-electronic organ hybrid. Deborah Krauss Smith, Midday Masterworks' founder and main organist, is organist/director of music at St. John's UCC in Monroe, having served in similar capacities at various churches and denominations since 1970.

More information is available at www.coldspringsroad.com/MiddayMasterworks.