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San Gennaro Organ Recital with Kevin Birch Sponsored by the Friends of the Erben Organ

September 15, 2017 @ 7:00 PM

Works of Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643), Georg Muffat (1653-1704), Gottlieb Muffat (1690-1770) performed on the 1859 Hall & Labagh Chancel Organ and Anonymous 18th Century works played on the 1868 Henry Erben Organ.

Since 1992 he has served as Director of Music at St. John’s Catholic Church in Bangor, Maine and as Executive Director of St. John’s Organ Society – an organization dedicated to the preservation and stewardship of E. & G. G. Hook’s Opus 288 built for St. John’s Catholic Church in 1860. He is a member of the music faculty at the University of Maine’s School of the Performing Arts in Orono and serves on the Liturgical Commission for the Diocese of Portland.

He has performed organ recitals in the United States, Canada, Europe, Scandinavia and South America and is especially devoted to the many fine historic organs in Maine. Recent highlights include recitals and lectures at organ festivals in Germany (Berlin and Potsdam) and programs for several national conventions of the Organ Historical Society.

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Date:
September 15, 2017
Time:
7:00 PM
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Venue

Basilica of Saint Patrick’s Old Cathedral
261 Mott Street
New York, NY 10012 United States
Website:
http://www.oldcathedral.org