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Thursdays, July 3 through August 7, 2008
Performances take place from 1 PM - 2 PM at Trinity Church, Broadway at Wall Street. Concerts are free to the public.
Trinity Wall Street presents its third annual summer concert series featuring performances on its Marshall & Ogletree American Classic virtual pipe organ. This year’s program, Pedals and Pumps: A Festival of Organ Divas, highlights contemporary female musicianship and offers the talents of American, European, and Asian “organistas”: Italy’s Federica Iannella and Giuliana Maccaroni, Germany’s Barbara Dennerlein, England’s Jane Watts, America’s Joyce Jones, Russia’s Ludmila Golub, and Korea’s Ahreum Han. Performances will take place at Trinity Church, Broadway at Wall Street, from 1 pm - 2 pm every Thursday from July 3, 2008 to August 7, 2008.
The concerts, which are open to the public at no charge, feature the organ console in full view of the audience. In addition, large, flat screen monitors are positioned so that the performers’ hands and feet can be seen close up. Concerts will be available for viewing live and on-demand -- use the links below.
The festival is generously supported by Anchor-International Foundation, Richard Torrence, and Marshall Yaeger.
CONCERT SCHEDULE
July 3, 2008
Federica Iannella and Giuliana Maccaroni, Italian concert organists and recording artists, who will use both chancel and gallery consoles during their concert, perform four-hand works by Morandi and Rossini.
July 10, 2008
Barbara Dennerlein, Germany’s most famous jazz recording star and concert organist, improvises her own works using both classical and modern jazz idioms. She will use theatrical registers programmed by Cameron Carpenter for the virtual pipe organ.
July 17, 2008
Jane Watts, organist of the Bach Choir of London under the direction of Sir David Willcocks and now David Hill, performs concert works by Dupré, Guilmant, Preston, and William Lloyd Webber.
July 24, 2008
Joyce Jones, leading American concert artist and head of the organ department at Baylor University, Waco, Texas, performs works by Dupré, Liszt, Bach, and Sowerby.
July 31, 2008
Ludmila Golub , organist of the Moscow International Performing Arts Center, “Dom Musica,” performs classical and contemporary works by Bach, Franck, Shastakovich, Mozart, Reger and Ives.
August 7, 2008
Ahreum Han , young Korean student of Alan Morrison at Curtis Institute and Tom Murray at Yale School of Music, performs works by Bach, Demessieux, Karg-Elert, Mendelssohn, Stanford, and Vierne.
Comments
I hope that you will have Cameron Carpenter back again. He is the most thrilling organist around since Virgil Fox.
Harry Littman on February 16, 2008
Last Summer's Organ Festival sustained me with so much beauty,creativity and awesome virtuosity. It added so much to my vacation to be able to tune into your webcasts. Many thanks and I look forward to this year's Festival! This is a great ministry in itself that you provide for us.
Vin Long
Fr. Vincent Long on February 19, 2008
I just found your website with videos of recent organ performances. I watched Cameron Carpenter, but didn't yet have a chance to see the others. Have the videos been removed from the website? Would you put them back? What a treasure to watch. Maybe you can restore them to the website under the heading, "archived performances"? I hope you will consider my request...and thanks in advance!
Jim Lepow on February 23, 2008
I miss the two concerts by Cameron Carpenter and other organists in the summer series. I'm sure you have them on your server but I can't find a link to them on your website. Please, the organ and Cameron are brilliant. Share the wealth:)
Ken Greenwood on February 25, 2008
Please bring back Cameron Carpenter & Felix Hell for 2008 concerts !!!!!!!
Is there any way to "download" the concerts so I can save them to my hard drive ?
John on March 2, 2008
Cameron Carpenter is unbelievable
Rick Kasten on March 4, 2008
Nathan Laube is utterly superb! I love his dynamic control; the piston changes his employs in his Old Bach transcription are thrilling and reflective of the arches inherent in the music!
Since you have a job opening in the music ministry, why not hire him?
Martin
Irving, Texas
martin Owen Gemoets on March 28, 2008
Is Cameron Carpenter's last summer's concert available for downloading?
An unreal performance.
c
Peter Miller on April 7, 2008
My pastor sang in Trinity about a dozen years ago and was enthusiastic about the acoustics and beauty; he was in opera at the time. With the organ programs, Trinity has continued to be a light house for great organ literature with great performers. You stand with dignity and great honor to God's beauty. My best wishes for your service.
Hugh Bateman on May 4, 2008
Your summer organ performances of 2007 were superb. I see that Cameron Carpenter used your organ to record his new CD to be released in September. I would again like to see Carpenter, Laube, Hell, Trenny, and Jaoobs return. Raul Prieto Ramirez from Spain is another young talent
Ron Kalman on June 13, 2008
Thank you Trinity Church for these wonderful concerts! I don\'t live anywhere near New York, so it is wonderful that you have them available on your website! TOM TRENNEY\'S recital was amazing last summer. He shows so much musicianship, and yet he keeps it under control...so unlike Cameron Carpenter.
I invite everyone to view this:
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Brent on June 13, 2008
Seeing Trinity during my first visit to New York in 1992 was one of the highlights of the trip. The intersection of Wall and Broad, with Trinity framed at the end of the street, is one of the most dramatic places on the planet. Deciding today to revisit via the internet, I was thrilled to discover such a beautiful and sophisticated web site. The organ has been a part of my life for 40 years, so I do appreciate the story of your organs, and the concerts you've hosted and put online for us are breathtaking. Now I've discovered your new instrument and Cameron Carpenter, and no live organ concert will ever be the same. Thank you for this stunning music ministry.
Bill Warren, Midland, Texas on June 29, 2008
I've listened to and played organ all my life. Never have I seen or heard anyone play as dynamically, and beautifully as Virgil Fox...until now. Please bring back Cameron Carpenter. The energy you feel and the simplicity he demonstrates is as compelling and uncompromising as any before.
Lochran on June 30, 2008
Thank you for providing the summer series via the 'net. I enjoyed, so very much, viewing the broadcast the first time, but have enjoyed them countless times since (especially Tom and Nathan). I look forward to hearing the "Babes and Boots" ladies this summer. Thanks again.
Darryl Miller on July 1, 2008
I am the Senior Organist at All Saints Church, Falmouth, Cornwall, UK, home to a 3-manual organ reckoned to be the finest in the County. I recently stumbled across the Marshall & Ogletree website, which in turn lead me to search for the TWS website. I have spent many enthralled minutes (I wish it could be hours!) watching the organ recital webcasts. Wow! What talent these young organists show, and thank you and your church for having the foresight to install the means to spread the "message" of organ playing to the world-wide audience. What inspiration! If any organists that you know are coming over the "pond" to Cornwall, and want to play at All Saints, please pass on my email address to them. I might even try to arrange for them to "have a go" on the 4-manual Willis in Truro Cathedral - how's that for bait?!
Roger King on July 7, 2008
I know I'm on a very short list of the people who don't appreciate Cameron Carpenter. He has an unbelievable technician, but I don't really hear much musical line. Can't compare to Felix Hell. Carpenter has been to Portland a couple times, and I wouldn't bother to go hear him again. Forgive me
Robert Renwick on July 23, 2008
I want to say I watched Ahreum Han"s recital live by webcast and her performance was outstanding,I am glad she made some comments at her recital.To me her entire recital was so well presented and it was a blessing and inspiration to me.I really hope that Trinity has her to come back and present more recitals,Thank You to Trinity and Thank You to Ahreum Han.
marcus matthews on August 9, 2008
Ahreum Han's recital was great. Can someone post the name of the encore she played? Thanks.
Calvin Fenton on August 10, 2008
Yes -- her encore was "Hamburger Totentanz" by Guy Bovet.
Gregg on August 15, 2008
If anyone knows why Trinity isn't continuing these concerts and maintaining their archives, please post!!! Is it a money problem, in NYC?! We all have our favorites, but Felix is a master of the Guilmant, Paul of the Reger, and Cameron, well, of everything else!
Richard Smith on July 22, 2009
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