Upcoming Events

Two organs. Two organists. All fun.

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Bach to Broadway returns to Christ Episcopal Church on Saturday, September 26. Two organists, Nathan Avakian and James Fitzwilliam, take on two very different instruments: the church's classical pipe organ, and a theatre organ, the kind that once filled movie palaces with the sound of a full orchestra out of a single console. They play each in turn, then together, moving from Bach to Broadway across the evening. Singer Claire Avakian joins her brother Nathan for several numbers.

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An organ is played with both hands, both feet, and constantly work at the stops and controls, and in a room this size you hear and feel all of it. The two instruments were built for different worlds, one for the concert hall and the church, one for the theatre and the crowd, and hearing them side by side is the whole point. It is a bigger, livelier night than most people expect, and that is the reason people come back.

Bring someone who thinks they don't like organ music and change their minds!

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Doors at 7, music at 7:30. 

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Co-presented by the New York Theatre Organ Society (NYTOS) and the Central Hudson Valley chapter of the American Guild of Organists (CHVAGO).