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Please consider making a tax-deductible donation today. Your financial support helps us fund the Erben’s restoration, as well as performance and educational programming around this unique and iconic American musical treasure. Our donors get special access to additional online content and other event benefits throughout the year. Thank you!

Music of the Spheres

 
A music-loving donor – who wishes to remain anonymous at this time – has pledged a cornerstone gift to FREO which allows us to begin the restoration of our national treasure, the magnificent 1868 Henry Erben pipe organ, one of the most important historic musical instruments in the nation. Our donor has challenged us to raise $500,000 in additional funds to meet contingencies during the project, including work that must be done in the choir loft. The donor has restricted this cornerstone gift to the restoration which will take 18-24 months to complete. Removal of the organ is scheduled to take place in February 2024. 
 
Music of the Spheres allows patrons of the arts, and lovers of music, to participate in this monumental undertaking. Donors at this level are pivotal to the completion of the project, as well as the ongoing life of the instrument after restoration. There are five levels:

Renaissance: $15,000

Seraphim: $10,000

Cherubim: $5,000

Archangel: $3,000

Angel: $1,500

To make a donation online, please type in the amount in the text box to the upper right of this page and enter Music of the Spheres under “Comments;” there is a field where you can make the donation “in honor of” or “in memory of.” A certificate will also be provided to donors to mark their gift. We hope you will join us on this historic journey.
If you wish to donate by check, please make it out to Friends of the Erben Organ and mail it to:

Friends of the Erben Organ
P. O. Box 472
New York, NY 10276

Adopt-a-Pipe Challenge

Adopt one or more of the nearly 2,500 pipes so they can sing for the next 155 years! 

Click here to learn more.
 

Friends of the Erben Organ is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, separate from the church, formed in 2017 with the mission of restoring, preserving and presenting the historic 1868 Henry Erben organ located in the Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral, corner Prince and Mott Streets in Little Italy, NYC.

If you wish to donate by check, please make it out to Friends of the Erben Organ and mail it to:
Friends of the Erben Organ
P. O. Box 472
New York, NY 10276

We value our donors and their privacy.  The Friends of the Erben Organ will never sell, exchange, rent, or otherwise share our donors’ contact information with any other organizations.

Gifts to Friends of the Erben Organ

For wire transfers, gifts of securities, Donor Advised Funds and other gifts, please click here to download the Gifts to FREO PDF file.

We are happy to answer any questions.

Friends of the Erben Organ is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, separate from the church, formed in 2017 with the mission of restoring, preserving and presenting the historic 1868 Henry Erben organ located in the Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral, corner Prince and Mott Streets in Little Italy, NYC.

We value our donors and their privacy.  The Friends of the Erben Organ will never sell, exchange, rent, or otherwise share our donors’ contact information with any other organizations.

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