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Five Fridays I: violin and piano
Danbi Um, violin Mika Sasaki, piano Friday October 6, 2023 at 7:30pm on the labyrinth at St. Paul’s Church, Chestnut Hill In the first concert of the 2023-24 season, Danbi Um makes a much-anticipated return to Five Fridays with pianist Mika Sasaki in a compelling program of music by Burleigh, Strauss, Grieg, and Kreisler. Since […]
Organ update, May 2023
Putting some finishing touches to the newly installed Positiv division. One of the rare opportunities that the current organ renovation afforded was the temporary opening up of the large organ chamber situated behind the reredos. This space was originally designed to accommodate the 1929 organ when the church was built. Increasingly stuffed full of organ […]
Choral Evensong April 30
Sunday April 30, 2023 at 5:00pm Fourth Sunday of Easter at St. Paul’s Church This service will be dedicated to our friends and neighbors at Our Mother of Consolation Church and School, and the collection directed towards their Fire Recovery Fund. Officiant – The Rev. Eric Hungerford Sung by the combined Choirs of St. Paul’s Church and […]
Five Fridays V: Piano Trio
Yu-Ting Chen, violin Clancy Newman, cello Natalie Zhu, piano Friday April 28, 2023 at 7:30pm on the labyrinth at St. Paul’s Church, Chestnut Hill In the final concert of the 2022-23 season, these three acclaimed artists will be heard in a compelling program of music by Schoenfield, Mendelssohn, and Brahms. Since 2011 the Five Fridays […]
Light at the end of the tunnel
Unexpected discoveries are an inevitable feature of every organ renovation. However exhaustive the preliminary inspection of an old instrument may be, the sheer complexity and tightly-packed structure of a pipe organ mean that full access and examination are impossible until it can be dismantled into its individual components. Unpleasant surprises are commonplace. The current renovation […]
