Coming Events
Saturday, May 10,
9:30 a.m. until 12:00 noon,
Open Console at the Bardavon Theatre in Poughkeepsie. Both the
NYTOS 2/10 Mighty Wurlitzer and our 3-manual Allen digital touring
organ will be available to play.
Organists Juan Cardona, Jr. and John Baratta will play a mini-concert. Refreshments provided.
Saturday, May 24, 9:00 a.m.
Open Console
at the NYTOS 2/11 Mighty Wurlitzer and
Big Screen Classics film, "City Lights"
starring Charlie Chaplin, at the Lafayette Theatre, Suffern, NY.
Open console from 9:00 until 10:45 a.m.;
Jeff Barker mini-concert at 11:00; classic films at 11:30. Refreshments provided during open console.
Sunday, June 8, at 3:00 p.m.
Organist Don Thompson
in concert at
Chaminade High School, Mineola, NY. 3/15 Austin-Morton Mighty Theatre Pipe Organ.
Admission donation $12; $10 for NYTOS members and seniors.
Past
NYTOS Events
Organ Demonstration for High School
Students
On May 31, 2007, NYTOS along with the AGO, John Baratta, Tom
Stehle, and John Vanderlee spent the day at High Point High
School with our Allen ADC4600
(see
article below about this organ) to perform a
demonstration concert for the high school's music students.
John gave a very nice
verbal intro detailing some highlights about
organs and began with Billy Joel's "Root Beer Rag". followed by a mix
of other light pops and classics all interspersed with
explanations, questions and answers.
This was repeated 5 times
during the day for 5 different classes, with slight
variations.
All together the
kids heard: Root Beer Rag, Bach's "Jig " Fugue,
Flapperete, Theme from "Mission Impossible", and a real
fire-breathing, gut-shaking Boehlman's Toccata.
In addition, one of John's
students perfomed a Bach
piece destined for his college entrance examination.
The kids were spellbound;
the nicest audience you'd ever want. John
connects with them, right down to showing why he wears "funny" shoes,
and his "2 minute organ lesson". Kids stopped by all day for further
questions, many asked about lessons. Truly, a great time was
had by
all. And just think, the following Thursday and Tuesday we got
to do this all over again!
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Events
Even if you are not a member, we invite you to attend our meetings and
concerts.
More Events to come. Check back
soon.
NYTOS
News!
Your
board of trustees, along with
the great help and work of Trustee, John Vanderlee, are proud to
announce that NYTOS is now the owner of a "Traveling Theatre Organ". We
purchased an Allen ADC 4600 Theatre Organ from Allen Organ this past
month. This organ was purchased with the thought of running "traveling
shows", a case of "if you can't bring them to the theatre organ, we can
bring the theatre organ to them." We hope, not only to use
this
organ to bring to schools, colleges and local interest groups, but to
also offer the instrument for theatre organ instruction.
Want to learn to play
the organ?
Drop us a line and we will try
to provide you with a list of organ teachers in the area.
Come hear The Ben Hall Memorial Organ
at The Lafayette Theatre, Suffern, NY
Every Thursday, Friday and Saturday, one half hour before the first
evening show, & Saturday Matinee Classic Movies Series
House Organists:
Ed Fritz, Earle Seely, Jeff Barker & John
Baratta
Playing Schedule:
John Baratta will be performing
every Saturday night and Sunday Matinee
Earle Seely and Ed Fritz will be performing Friday nights
Jeff Barker will be performing Saturday matinees
Directions to the Lafayette Theatre
