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Bruce R. Eicher, the organist at Pikesville’s Beth El Congregation for 56 years, passed away June 22 of congestive heart failure. He was 90. Donations in his memory can be sent to the Bruce R. Eicher Prize in Organ at the Peabody Institute of Music of the Johns Hopkins University, or the Grace Church Concert Fund.
Jmore interviewed Eicher in September of 2019 at the time of his retirement from Beth El.
“The people made me feel very welcome,” Eicher said of working at Beth El. “They were always so accepting and warm.”
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