Immanuel Presbyterian, Los Angeles is one of the great churches on Wilshire Boulevard in downtown Los Angeles, California. The main church seats over 2000 people. There are three organs on the campus. A 1929 EM Skinner, a 1956 Schlicker (the first three manual Schlicker to be installed in Southern California), and a 2 manual 1977 Hradetzky. A history of the church is available at https://immanuelpres.org/history/

Unfortunately, due to significant demographic changes since its heyday in the mid 20th Century, the instruments have fallen into disrepair, and the church is serving its community in ways that don't involve these fine instruments. We are happy to be able to have preserved them using this platform.

Clarence Mader was the organist at Immanuel Presbyterian from 1929 through 1966. He presided over the then brand new EM Skinner organ, and over the installation of the 1956 Schlicker in the Westminster chapel on the campus. The Schlicker was Clarence Mader's primary teaching instrument. The Hradetzky organ was donated in memory of Clarence Mader in 1977. The instrument was one of three instruments of similar size by the same builder at about the same time for Southern California. The other two are at UCLA and UC Irvine.

The hall housing the Hradetsky is relatively small, and as was the acoustic trend at the time, very dry. The organ has very distinct and clear voicing, and is outstanding for the performance of Baroque and some modern literature.

As expected for instruments that hadn't been maintained for over a year or more, the Mixtures are somewhat out of tune. We have created a mixture of similar composition for our Hauptwerk model. However the sampled mixture is also available in the set, available by pressing the area to the left of the mixture stop. There is no indication of if the mixture is on or not – it's an Easter Egg in this set! The Great is 4' principal based, so it's a quite small case. The Positiv is behind the great, and uniquely the shades open to the side of the case.