Our 2023-2024 season draws to a close with Pipes Alive! featuring St. John's organ artist-in-residence Christa Rakich playing the St. John’s organ Sunday, June 1, 2025, at 12:30pm. This event will be presented in person and by livestream.

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Music at the Red Door - St. John's Episcopal Church

Contact: concerts@reddoormusic.org

First Unitarian Church of Worcester is hosting a series of free "Totally Organ-ic!" concerts featuring our two spectacular organs. On June 8, our talented Artists-in-Residence at the church will be joined by Kevin Neel, Director of Music and Organist at All Saints, Worcester. Neel has been heard at the organ in numerous venues including Symphony Hall (Boston), Trinity Church Copley Square, Methuen Memorial Music Hall, as well as numerous other venues. Participating musicians include Noel Cary on clarinet, Ken Melnick on clarinet, James Kassal on bassoon, Becky Spanagel on piano, The Hip-Swayers duo, Toni Ostrow and Dave Blodgett, on bass, guitar, and vocals, Bill Fisher on bass, Bob Gordon on percussion, and our young Artist-in-Residence, Shannon Favela, on bassoon. Repertoire will range from Mendelssohn to the Beatles. Reception to follow. This concert has been sponsored by a grant from the Worcester Arts Council and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Parking is available in the church parking lots on State St; the side door on the lower lot is an accessible entrance.

Works by Felix Mendelssohn, Johann Ernst Galliard, James Kassal, Craig Phillips, Claude Debussy, Ignaz Pleyel, Procul Harum, Solomon Burke, Billy Swan, The Beatles
First Unitarian Church of Worcester

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First Unitarian Church of Worcester is hosting a series of free "Totally Organ-ic!" concerts featuring our two spectacular organs. On June 22, we are excited to be welcoming organist Jeremy Bruns for a solo recital. Bruns will offer a virtuosic program with music from a variety of countries and time periods. Featured composers will include J.S. Bach, Dutch composers J.P. Sweelinck and Ad Wammes (born 1953), American jazz pianist George Shearing (1919-2011), as well as composers from the United Kingdom and France. Named “a coolly aristocratic player” by The Dallas Morning News, Bruns has been heard on the nationally syndicated radio show Pipedreams, BBC Radio, and the Pro Organo label. He serves as the Director of Music and Organist at Parish of the Epiphany (Episcopal) in Winchester MA. Reception to follow. This concert has been sponsored by a grant from the Worcester Arts Council and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Parking is available in the church parking lots on State St; the side door on the lower lot is an accessible entrance.

Works by Bach, Sweelinck, Wammes, Howells, Shearing, Messiaen, Guilmant, Mulet
First Unitarian Church of Worcester

Winchendon Winds, a 40-piece professional wind ensemble, joins forces with a pipe organ for their final concert on Sunday, June 29. They'll “pull out all the stops,” quite literally, with a concert featuring the church's 1868 E. & G.G. Hook pipe organ. International pipe organist Peter Krasinski will perform with the band on Tarot, King of Cups (an original work by Dr. Bronnenkant), Phantom of the Opera, and the bombastic finale to Saint-Saens’ Symphony No. 3 (“Organ Symphony”). This is a concert not to be missed and a rare opportunity to hear wind ensemble, pipe organ and grand piano all playing together. Concerts are free, thanks to generous grants and donations. Refreshments will be sold on the lawn. Spend a lovely summer afternoon listening to one of the best wind ensembles in the region!

Works by Saint Saens, Webber, Mozart, Bronnenkant, Bach
Unitarian Universalist Church of Winchendon

Contact: Jill Sackett

First Unitarian Church of Worcester is hosting a series of free "Totally Organ-ic!" concerts featuring our two spectacular organs. On June 29, we are welcoming Jennifer McPherson Mulhern to perform a concert of all works by American Women Composers. Included will be selections from Florence Price's First Sonata for Organ as well as Brenda Portman's Diptych. Jennifer McPherson Mulhern serves as Director of Music and Liturgy at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the oldest and largest Episcopal Parish in the state. She graduated cum laude from the College of the Holy Cross, where she held the prestigious position of Organ Scholar. She received her Master of Music in Historical Performance from Oberlin Conservatory of Music. At St. John’s, Jennifer oversees a vibrant music program for all ages, conducts the Parish Choir, and plays the three-manual Létourneau organ. She teaches private organ lessons at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. She has been awarded prizes in multiple competitions, including the International Organ Competition Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck in Amsterdam. Reception to follow. This concert has been sponsored by a grant from the Worcester Arts Council and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Parking is available in the church parking lots on State St; the side door on the lower lot is an accessible entrance.

Works by Florence Price, Brenda Portman
First Unitarian Church of Worcester

Gavin Klein, Organ scholar at Holy Cross College, Worcester, MA kicks off a concert series celebrating 150 years of the 1875 E. & G. G. Hook & Hastings Organ, Opus 801 at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Boston

Works by Bach, Béllier, Mendelssohn, Franck, Reger
Cathedral of the Holy Cross
17 and under FREE
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Gavin Klein, Organ scholar at Holy Cross College, Worcester, MA kicks off a concert series celebrating 150 years of the 1875 E. & G. G. Hook 7 Hastings organ at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross.

Works by Bach, Béllier, Mendelssohn, Franck, Reger
Cathedral of the Holy Cross
17 and under FREE
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