BANGOR – Music written by French composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries will be featured during the next concert in the St. John’s Society’s Summer Concert Series at 7:30 p.m. today at St. John’s Catholic Church, 207 York St.

The program by organist Carlton T. Russell will be pieces written by Dubois, Lemmens, Franck and Guilmant.

Featuring the church’s historic E. and G. G. Hook pipe organ, the concert is open to the public without charge.

Russell, professor of music and college organist emeritus at Wheaton College, Norton, Mass., is making his 15th appearance on the 1860 St. John’s organ, having first played a recital in 1979 to help initiate the parish’s campaign to renovate its important instrument.

Over the last 40 years, Russell has played many recitals on historic organs in the Penobscot region. His playing may be heard on the 1997 St. John’s series recording and on a solo CD, “With Grateful Gladness,” produced at Wheaton College in 1999.

He and his wife, Lorna S. Russell, an organist and retired French teacher, became permanent residents of Sandy Point last year.

Russell, recently appointed to the board of directors of the St. John’s Organ Society, is currently serving as interim minister of music at St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church in Camden.