St. John's Community Block Party
| Music at the Red Door - St. John's Episcopal Church, 679 Farmington Avenue, West Hartford, CT 06119, USA Cost: Free Performing: Hartford Steel Symphony, Jeff Verney & Belfalus KhanALL are invited to our 4th annual Community Block Party at St. John’s Episcopal Church, on Sunday, September 15 from noon to 3 p.m., following an outdoor Sunday Eucharist at 10:30 a.m. Bring a picnic or buy lunch here: hot dogs, pizza, and ice cream. Enjoy live music by local bands including the Hartford Steel Symphony (11:45), and Jeff Verney & Belfalus Khan, along with a bounce house and other fun activities for kids, tours of St. John’s historic building, and more. Free admission, rain or shine. Everyone is welcome! |
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| Details: All concerts are free admission, with a suggested donation. For full details, visit (link). ALL are invited to our 4th annual Community Block Party at St. John’s Episcopal Church, on Sunday, September 15 from noon to 3 p.m., following an outdoor Sunday Eucharist at 10:30 a.m. Bring a picnic or buy lunch here: hot dogs, pizza, and ice cream. Enjoy live music by local bands including the Hartford Steel Symphony (11:45), and Jeff Verney & Belfalus Khan, along with a bounce house and other fun activities for kids, tours of St. John’s historic building, and more. Free admission, rain or shine. Everyone is welcome! | |
| Contact: music@sjparish.net [Map]     107527 | |
Rededication of the 1875 E&GG Hook & Hastings, Opus 801 - Leo Abbott
| Cathedral of the Holy Cross, 1400 Washington St. Boston, MA 02118 Cost: Suggested Donation: Gen: $25; Sr/Stu: $15 Performing: Leo Abbott, FAGO, ChM |
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| Details: Leo Abbott, Director Emeritus of the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Boston will rededicate the historic 1875 E. &G. G. Hook & Hastings Organ, Opus 801 in the newly renovated Cathedral. Come this historic 101-rank instrument as it has not been heard in the opulent acoustic of the renovated Cathedral of the Holy Cross. | |
| Bio: (link) Contact: richard_clark@rcab.org OrganInfo: (link) [Map]  107522 | |
Choral Evensong - Come and Sing!
| Music at the Red Door - St. John's Episcopal Church, 679 Farmington Avenue Cost: Free Performing: St. John's Choirs, Scott Lamlein, Director of Music and Organist |
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| Details: All concerts are free admission, with a suggested donation. For full details, visit (link). The ancient and beautiful service of Choral Evensong is presented on the fourth Sunday of selected months at St. John’s. Join us on September 22 at 5:00pm for this time of music and worship. Do you love to sing Evensong? Join us at 3:15pm to be part of the choir! Please send message saying “I / we are coming” to Scott Lamlein at (link). We’d love to have you join in the fun. | |
| Contact: music@sjparish.net [Map]  107528 | |
New World Trio: Ensemble-in-Residence at the Red Door
| Music at the Red Door - St. John's Episcopal Church, 679 Famrington Avenue Cost: Free Performing: New World Trio |
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| Details: All concerts are free admission, with a suggested donation. For full details, visit (link). For more than three decades, the New World Trio has brought the excitement and intimacy of chamber music to live audiences throughout New England. Founded in 1985 by violinist Anhared Stowe, New World provides a unique experience for music lovers with its mix of both standard repertoire and contemporary works. With each performance, New World brings new vitality to established masterworks; these are paired with contemporary pieces, with each complementing the other in depth and beauty. “…New World has been (Hartford’s) one reliable source of chamber music since its founding…” says the Hartford Courant. | |
| Contact: reddoormusic.org [Map]  107529 | |
Pipescreams!
| Music at the Red Door - St. John's Episcopal Church, 679 Farmington Avenue Cost: Free Performing: Various local organists |
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| Details: All concerts are free admission, with a suggested donation. For full details, visit (link). Pipescreams! is Friday, October 25, 7:00 p.m. Hear the celebrated St. John’s Austin organ played by a stunning cast of costumed players in this spooktacular concert. The music will be kooky, creepy, dramatic, doleful – featuring old favorites as well as some pieces you may not have heard before. Reception with ghoulish treats follows the concert. Fun for all ages. Don’t miss it! Co-sponsored by the Greater Hartford Chapter, American Guild of Organists. | |
| Contact: (link) [Map]  107533 | |
Choral Evensong - St. John's Youth and Adult Choirs
| Music at the Red Door - St. John's Episcopal Church, 679 Farmington Avenue Cost: Free Performing: St. John's Youth and Adult Choirs, Scott Lamlein, Organist and Choirmaster |
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| Details: The ancient and beautiful service of Choral Evensong is presented on the fourth Sunday of selected months at St. John’s. Join us on October 27 at 5:00pm for music by the St. John’s Youth and Adult Choirs, Scott Lamlein, organist and choirmaster. | |
| Contact: (link) [Map]  107534 | |
Harmony at Home
| First Parish, 327 Concord Rd Cost: Tickets: Gen: $30-40; Sr/Stu: $10 - Kids free in Section B! Performing: Musicians of the Old Post Road |
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| Details: This concert explores the extraordinarily fruitful musical relationships within two musical families: that of siblings Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn and that of husband and wife Jan Ladislav and Sophia Corri Dussek. Program includes Felix’s Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio no. 1 in his own arrangement for flute, cello, and piano, Fanny Mendelssohn’s Adagio for violin and piano, J.L. Dussek’s Piano Trio in E Minor, op. 2, and Sophia Dussek’s Flute Sonata no. 1 | |
| Bio: (link) [Map]  107510 | |
Harmony at Home
| Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury Street Cost: Tickets: Gen: $30-40; Sr/Stu: $10 - Kids free in Section B! Performing: Musicians of the Old Post Road |
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| Details: This concert explores the extraordinarily fruitful musical relationships within two musical families: that of siblings Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn and that of husband and wife Jan Ladislav and Sophia Corri Dussek. Program includes Felix’s Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio no. 1 in his own arrangement for flute, cello, and piano, Fanny Mendelssohn’s Adagio for violin and piano, J.L. Dussek’s Piano Trio in E Minor, op. 2, and Sophia Dussek’s Flute Sonata no. 1 | |
| Bio: (link) [Map]  107512 | |
Notre-Dame de Paris Organist Johann Vexo in Concert
| Church of the Redeemer, 379 Hammond Street Cost: Suggested Donation: Gen: $20; Sr/Stu: $ Performing: Johann Vexo |
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| Details: Johann Vexo - Organiste du Chœur - Notre-Dame de Paris
Wednesday, November 6th, 2019 – Church of the Redeemer - 7:30pm
A concert of French organ music on the 2018 Schoenstein organ
General Admission by donation – open seating – proceeds to benefit the restoration of the organs of Notre-Dame de Paris
SPECIAL PATRON'S TICKETS - LIMITED NUMBER
There will be a limited number of Special Patron's Tickets available by advanced sale only, which will include:
One seat in Reserved Priority Seating
Special Patron's Private Pre-Concert Reception (6:30pm-7:15pm), with Johann Vexo, Organist
Passed gourmet hors d'œuvres and premium French wines
$150.00 per person
For Special Patron’s Tickets reservations or more information, please contact Suzy Westcott - verger@redeemerchestnuthill.org
617 566 7679 etx. 150 | |
| Bio: (link) OrganInfo: (link) [Map]  107526 | |
Silent Film: The King of Kings (1927)
| Music at the Red Door - St. John's Episcopal Church, 679 Farmington Avenue Cost: Free Performing: Patrick Miller, pianist |
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| Details: All concerts are free admission, with a suggested donation. For full details, visit (link). Join us as pianist Patrick Miller accompanies the 1927 Cecil B. DeMille epic silent film The King of Kings, on Saturday, November 16, 2019 at 7:00 p.m.
The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it.
In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywood history, DeMille spun the life and Passion of Christ into a silent-era blockbuster. Featuring text drawn directly from the Bible, a cast of thousands, and the great showman’s singular cinematic bag of tricks, The King of Kings is at once spectacular and deeply reverent—part Gospel, part Technicolor epic. | |
| Bio: (link) Contact: (link) [Map]  107535 | |
Christmas Pilgrimage
| Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury Street Cost: Tickets: Gen: $30-40; Sr/Stu: $10 - Kids free in Section B! Performing: Musicians of the Old Post Road |
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| Details: This Holiday program explores the guiding light of Epiphany. The ensemble will premiere Christoph Graupner’s cantata Das Volk so im Finstern wandelt (The people that wandered in darkness), Telemann’s New Year cantata Der mit Sünden beleidigte Heiland, and pastorales by Heinichen and Pez
With vocal soloists soprano Jessica Petrus, alto Sophie Micheaux, tenor Jason McStoots, and baritone Bradfod Gleim | |
| Bio: (link) [Map]  107514 | |
Candlelight Festival of Lessons and Carols
| Music at the Red Door - St. John's Episcopal Church, 679 Farmington Avenue Cost: Free Performing: St. John's Choir, Scott Lamlein, choirmaster, Floyd Higgins, organist |
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| Details: All concerts are free admission, with a suggested donation. For full details, visit (link). An amazing start to the Advent season – arrive early to get a good seat! In the tradition of King’s College, Cambridge, prepare your soul for the Christmas miracle with carols for choir and organ. This event is a long-standing tradition at St. John’s – a “must” to center your soul during the Advent season. Sunday, December 15 at 3:00pm.
The St. John’s Adult and Youth Choirs; Scott Lamlein, choirmaster; Floyd Higgins, organist | |
| Contact: (link) [Map]  107536 | |
Christmas Pilgrimage
| First Unitarian Church, 90 Main Street Cost: Tickets: Gen: $30-40; Sr/Stu: $10 - Kids free in Section B! Performing: Musicians of the Old Post Road |
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| Details: This Holiday program explores the guiding light of Epiphany. The ensemble will premiere Christoph Graupner’s cantata Das Volk so im Finstern wandelt (The people that wandered in darkness), Telemann’s New Year cantata Der mit Sünden beleidigte Heiland, and pastorales by Heinichen and Pez
With vocal soloists soprano Jessica Petrus, alto Sophie Micheaux, tenor Jason McStoots, and baritone Bradfod Gleim | |
| Bio: (link) [Map]  107515 | |
Pipes Alive! - Scott Lamlein, Organist
| Music at the Red Door - St. John's Episcopal Church, 679 Farmington Avenue Cost: Free Performing: Scott Lamlein, Organist |
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| Details: All concerts are free admission, with a suggested donation. For full details, visit (link). Back by popular demand, the Pipes Alive! series continues with Scott Lamlein playing the St. John’s organ on Sunday, January 5 at 12:30 p.m. | |
| Bio: (link) Contact: (link) OrganInfo: (link) [Map]  107537 | |
New World Trio: Ensemble-in-Residence at the Red Door
| Music at the Red Door - St. John's Episcopal Church, 679 Farmington Avenue Cost: Free Performing: New World Trio |
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| Details: All concerts are free admission, with a suggested donation. For full details, visit (link). For more than three decades, the New World Trio has brought the excitement and intimacy of chamber music to live audiences throughout New England. Founded in 1985 by violinist Anhared Stowe, New World provides a unique experience for music lovers with its mix of both standard repertoire and contemporary works. With each performance, New World brings new vitality to established masterworks; these are paired with contemporary pieces, with each complementing the other in depth and beauty. “…New World has been (Hartford’s) one reliable source of chamber music since its founding…” says the Hartford Courant. | |
| Contact: (link) [Map]  107538 | |
Choral Evensong - Choirs of Trinity Church, Hartford
| Music at the Red Door - St. John's Episcopal Church, 679 Farmington Avenue Cost: Free Performing: Choir of Trinity Church, Hartford, Jackson Merrill, choirmaster; Scott Lamlein, organist |
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| Details: All concerts are free admission, with a suggested donation. For full details, visit (link). The ancient and beautiful service of Choral Evensong is presented on the fourth Sunday of selected months at St. John’s. Join us on January 26 at 5:00pm for music by the Choir School of Hartford, and Trinity Church Choir; Jackson Merrill, choirmaster; Scott Lamlein, organist. | |
| Contact: (link) [Map]  107539 | |
Pipes Alive! - Cheryl Wadsworth, Organist
| Music at the Red Door - St. John's Episcopal Church, 679 Farmington Avenue Cost: Free Performing: Cheryl Wadsworth, Organist |
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| Details: All concerts are free admission, with a suggested donation. For full details, visit (link). The 2020 Pipes Alive! series continues with Cheryl Wadsworth playing the St. John’s organ on Sunday, February 2 at 12:30 p.m. | |
| Bio: (link) Contact: (link) OrganInfo: (link) [Map]  107540 | |
Celebrity Organ Concert: Simon Johnson
| <a href="https://www.reddoormusic.org/event/simon-johnson-organist/" target="_blank">(link)</a>, 679 Farmington Avenue Cost: Free Performing: Simon Johnson, Organist |
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| Details: All concerts are free admission, with a suggested donation. For full details, visit (link). We welcome concert organist Simon Johnson to the mighty St. John’s pipe organ on Friday, February 21 at 7:30pm. Mr. Johnson is organist at St. Paul’s Cathedral, London. | |
| Bio: (link) Contact: (link) OrganInfo: (link) [Map]  107541 | |
Choral Evensong - Voices of Concinnity
| Music at the Red Door - St. John's Episcopal Church, 679 Farmington Avenue Cost: Free Performing: Voices of Concinnity; Sarah Kaufold, choirmaster; Scott Lamlein, organist |
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| Details: All concerts are free admission, with a suggested donation. For full details, visit (link). The ancient and beautiful service of Choral Evensong is presented on the fourth Sunday of selected months at St. John’s. Join us on February 23 at 5:00pm for music by the professional choral ensemble Voices of Concinnity; Sarah Kaufold, choirmaster and Scott Lamlein, organist. | |
| Contact: (link) [Map]  107542 | |
Pipes Alive! - Grant Wareham, Organist
| Music at the Red Door - St. John's Episcopal Church, 679 Farmington Avenue Cost: Free Performing: Grant Wareham, Organist |
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| Details: All concerts are free admission, with a suggested donation. For full details, visit (link). The 2020 Pipes Alive! series continues with Grant Wareham playing the St. John’s organ on Sunday, March 1 at 12:30 p.m. | |
| Bio: (link) Contact: (link) OrganInfo: (link) [Map]  107543 | |
The Lure of London
| First Parish, 225 Boston Post Road Cost: Tickets: Gen: $30-40; Sr/Stu: $10 - Kids free in Section B! Performing: Musicians of the Old Post Road |
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| Details: Virtuoso Baroque instrumental works by Italians who settled in London with its lively musical scene. The program includes trio sonatas by Locatelli, Platti, and Tessarini, a capriccio for strings and continuo by Veracini, a flute concerto by Sammartini, and a cello sonata by Cervetto | |
Bio: [Map]  107516 | |
Choral Music and Jazz at the Red Door: The Nat Reeves Trio and St. John's Choirs
| Music at the Red Door - St. John's Episcopal Church, 679 Farmington Avenue Cost: Free Performing: Nat Reeves Trio, St. John's Youth and Adult Choirs |
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| Details: All concerts are free admission, with a suggested donation. For full details, visit (link). An evening of incredible jazz! Join us on Saturday, March 7 at 7:30pm, in the marvelous acoustics of St. John’s Church, for a unique concert teaming up the Nat Reeves Trio with the St. John’s Youth and Adult Choirs. The featured work will be A Little Jazz Mass by English composer Bob Chilcott. Snow date: March 14 at 7:30pm. | |
| Bio: (link) Contact: (link) [Map]  107544 | |
The Lure of London
| Old South Church, 645 Boylston Street Cost: Tickets: Gen: $30-40; Sr/Stu: $10 - Kids free in Section B! Performing: Musicians of the Old Post Road |
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| Details: Virtuoso Baroque instrumental works by Italians who settled in London with its lively musical scene. The program includes trio sonatas by Locatelli, Platti, and Tessarini, a capriccio for strings and continuo by Veracini, a flute concerto by Sammartini, and a cello sonata by Cervetto | |
| Bio: (link) [Map] 107517 | |
Choral Evensong - St. John's Schola
| Music at the Red Door - St. John's Episcopal Church, 679 Farmington Avenue Cost: Free Performing: St. John's Schola, Scott Lamlein, organist and choirmaster |
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| Details: All concerts are free admission, with a suggested donation. For full details, visit (link). The ancient and beautiful service of Choral Evensong is presented on the fourth Sunday of selected months at St. John’s. Join us on March 22 at 5:00pm for music by the St. John’s Schola; Scott Lamlein, organist and choirmaster. | |
| Contact: (link) [Map]  107545 | |
New World Trio: Ensemble-in-Residence at the Red Door
| Music at the Red Door - St. John's Episcopal Church, 679 Farmington Avenue Cost: Free Performing: New World Trio |
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| Details: All concerts are free admission, with a suggested donation. For full details, visit (link). For more than three decades, the New World Trio has brought the excitement and intimacy of chamber music to live audiences throughout New England. Founded in 1985 by violinist Anhared Stowe, New World provides a unique experience for music lovers with its mix of both standard repertoire and contemporary works. With each performance, New World brings new vitality to established masterworks; these are paired with contemporary pieces, with each complementing the other in depth and beauty. “…New World has been (Hartford’s) one reliable source of chamber music since its founding…” says the Hartford Courant. | |
| Contact: (link) [Map]  107546 | |
Pipes Alive! - Zachary Schurman
| Music at the Red Door - St. John's Episcopal Church, 679 Farmington Avenue Cost: Free Performing: Zachary Schurman |
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| Details: All concerts are free admission, with a suggested donation. For full details, visit (link). The 2020 Pipes Alive! series continues with Zachary Schurman playing the St. John’s organ on Sunday, April 5 at 12:30 p.m. | |
| Bio: (link) Contact: (link) OrganInfo: (link) [Map]  107547 | |
Spring Chamber Music: Leonid Sigal and Friends
| Music at the Red Door - St. John's Episcopal Church, 679 Farmington Avenue Cost: Free Performing: Leonid Sigal |
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| Details: All concerts are free admission, with a suggested donation. For full details, visit (link). Join us for a beautiful chamber music concert on Friday, April 24 at 7:30pm by Leonid Sigal and friends. Mr. Sigal is well known for his series at the Wadsworth Atheneum, “Sunday Serenades,” where he and his HSO colleagues perform repertoire inspired by the artwork on display. He has planned a program of Prokofiev, Fauré and Beethoven. | |
| Contact: (link) [Map]  107548 | |
Choral Evensong - St. John's Youth Choir
| Music at the Red Door - St. John's Episcopal Church, 679 Farmington Avenue Cost: Free Performing: St. John's Youth Choir with the Youth Choir of Christ Church, Newington; Scott Lamlein and Peter Niedmann, choirmasters |
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| Details: All concerts are free admission, with a suggested donation. For full details, visit (link). The ancient and beautiful service of Choral Evensong is presented on the fourth Sunday of selected months at St. John’s. Join us on April 26 at 5:00pm for music by the St. John’s Youth Choir, with the Youth Choir of Christ Church, Congregational, Newington; Scott Lamlein and Peter Niedmann, choirmasters. | |
| Contact: (link) [Map]  107549 | |
Dramatic Return
| Harvard-Epworth Church, 1555 Massachusetts Ave Cost: Tickets: Gen: $30-40; Sr/Stu: $10 - Kids free in Section B! Performing: Musicians of the Old Post Road |
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| Details: French Baroque cantatas and instrumental works, featuring Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre’s cantata Le Passage sur la mer rouge (based on the biblical story), Clerambault’s epic cantata Leandre et Hero, along with Clerambault’s Sonata La Felicite and an overture by Charpentier
With soprano Teresa Wakim | |
| Bio: (link) [Map] 107518 | |
Pipes Alive! - Michelle Horsley, Organist
| Music at the Red Door - St. John's Episcopal Church, 679 Farmington Avenue Cost: Free Performing: Michelle Horsley, Organist |
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| Details: All concerts are free admission, with a suggested donation. For full details, visit (link). The 2020 Pipes Alive! series continues with Michelle Horsley playing the St. John’s organ on Sunday, May 3 at 12:30 p.m. | |
| Bio: (link) Contact: (link) OrganInfo: (link) [Map]  107550 | |
Dramatic Return
| Worcester Historical Museum, 30 Elm Street Cost: Tickets: Gen: $30-40; Sr/Stu: $10 - Kids free in Section B! Performing: Musicians of the Old Post Road |
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| Details: French Baroque cantatas and instrumental works, featuring Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre’s cantata Le Passage sur la mer rouge (based on the biblical story), Clerambault’s epic cantata Leandre et Hero, along with Clerambault’s Sonata La Felicite and an overture by Charpentier
With soprano Teresa Wakim | |
| Bio: (link) [Map]  107519 | |
Pipes Alive! - Benjamin Straley, Organist
| Music at the Red Door - St. John's Episcopal Church, 679 Farmington Avenue Cost: Free Performing: Benjamin Straley, Organist |
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| Details: All concerts are free admission, with a suggested donation. For full details, visit (link). The 2020 Pipes Alive! series continues with Benjamin Straley playing the St. John’s organ on Sunday, June 7 at 12:30 p.m. | |
| Bio: (link) Contact: (link) OrganInfo: (link) [Map]  107551 | |
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