NYCAGO - Pipe Organs of NYC - Episode 2: Saint Thomas Church & Grace Church

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Tonight at 7 PM, the NYCAGO airs our second episode of Pipe Organs of NYC series, taking the viewer on a virtual musical tour of two of the oldest and grandest Episcopal churches of the city. Within the past ten years, both have completed new instruments which have met with wide acclaim.

Saint Thomas Church was established in 1823. The fourth and present building (at the parish’s second location) was opened in 1916 to the designs of Cram and Goodhue. The Saint Thomas Choir School, founded in 1919, continues as the only church-affiliated residential choir school in the United States. The church boasts an enviable lineage of organists, including T. Tertius Noble, Gerre Hancock, John Scott, and Daniel Hyde. Assistants from Saint Thomas have regularly gone on to serve at prestigious churches the world over; Patrick Allen of Grace Church was one such associate. Currently under the direction of Dr. Jeremy Filsell, Saint Thomas’s music program sustains an international reputation for its breadth and quality.

The chancel instrument, the Miller-Scott Organ, was build by Dobson as their Opus 93 in 2018. (Saint Thomas also contains a Taylor and Boody organ, Opus 27 (1996/2015), in the rear gallery, although it is not heard on this video.) Both organs can be heard regularly in recital, exclusively virtually for now during this Covidtide, although the church is open for in-person worship on a currently reduced schedule.
http://www.saintthomaschurch.org
Grace Church was founded in 1805 and the handsome Gothic Revival sanctuary opened in 1846, designed by James Renwick, Jr. (Renwick is best known as the architect of Saint Patrick’s Cathedral featured in last week’s episode.) A boy choir was founded in 1894 under the direction of James Helfenstein. Ernest Mitchell, of Trinity Church, Copley Square in Boston followed as the next director. The Choir of Men and Boys is the oldest such choir in continuous service in New York City, to which have been added over the years ensembles for girls and mixed adults. The program continues today under Dr. Patrick Allen, Organist and Master of the Choristers since 2000.

The Bicentennial Organ was built by Taylor and Boody as their Opus 65 in 2013. This magnificent tracker can be heard regularly and often during worship services and in recital, both in-person and virtually, with a “Bach at Noon” series at 12:20 PM, Tuesday through Friday; an Organ Meditation at 4 PM on Saturdays; and “Hymns from Grace” at 4 PM on Sundays.
http://www.gracechurchnyc.org

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