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Trinity Choir and Baroque Orchestra, led by Avi Stein, will wrap up Bach at One’s celebration of the church’s new organ with Bach’s Fugue in D Major, and the conclusion of his transcendent Mass in B Minor (Part II-Part IV). Expect a majestic performance of a work widely considered to be the pinnacle of Bach’s compositional career. From the moving Credo and joyous Sanctus to the stunning Agnus Dei, the Mass is a showcase of the master at his most inspired, revealing both incredible artistry and a commitment to faith.  

Trinity Choir; Trinity Baroque Orchestra; led by Avi Stein, organ  

The Prelude will begin at 12:50pm.

Jazz pianist Matthew Whitaker began making music at age 3 after his grandfather gave him a keyboard; he grew up to perform at the Kennedy Center and Lincoln Center. Also a drummer and composer, Whitaker, who was born with blindness, has collaborated with the multi-talented Jon Batiste and famed bassist Christian McBride, both winners of multiple Grammys. Whitaker’s current CD, On Their Shoulders: An Organ Tribute — an homage to his own Hammond heroes — has been nominated for Outstanding Jazz Album by the NAACP Image Awards.     

Trinity presents Jazz at One in collaboration with JAZZ HOUSE KiDS, to showcase some of the most prolific and influential artists in music history.  

Janet Yieh, music director at New York’s Church of the Heavenly Rest and former Trinity assistant organist, joins Downtown Voices to present a program of iconic Anglican and American hymns that illustrates the new organ’s majestic sweep — capable of both soaring transcendence and quiet sweetness. Opening with I Was Glad, by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, the evening includes such favorites as William Henry Harris’s Faire is the heaven, Cecilia McDowall’s O sing unto the Lord, and Alice Parker’s Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal.  

Janet Yieh, organ; Downtown Voices; Edmund Milly, baritone; Stephen Sands, conductor  

After years and years of composing sacred music, Bach turned his focus to the Collegium Musicum, a public concert series in Leipzig performed in coffee houses and beer gardens. There he both presented his own works and programmed the music of his contemporaries, such as Antonio Lucio Vivaldi and George Frideric Handel. Today, with Trinity Baroque Orchestra, Avi Stein performs organ pieces by each of these virtuosi.   

Trinity Baroque Orchestra; led by Avi Stein, organ   

Radam Schwartz has earned recognition as a Hammond B3 master over a 35-year career. His recording Organized is considered one of the essential jazz organ albums of all time, while his most recent CD, 2 Sides of the Organ Combo, features two different takes on his classic sound: the Smooth Side and the Groove Side. A longtime educator, Schwartz has taught at such beloved programs as JAZZ HOUSE KiDS.

Trinity presents Jazz at One in collaboration with JAZZ HOUSE KiDS, to showcase some of the most prolific and influential artists in music history.

Join us as Trinity’s Organist and Chorusmaster Avi Stein celebrates the church’s glorious new organ by unleashing the full range of its expressive capabilities. Showcasing how the 8,000-pipe instrument performs with an orchestra — and how it can perform as an orchestra in itself — Stein joins with the strings of NOVUS to present Francis Poulenc’s Organ Concerto in G Minor and Walter Piston’s Prelude and Allegro for Organ and Strings. He will also perform Julius Reubke’s Sonata on the 94th Psalm, a meditation comparable to a great Romantic tone poem, and his own arrangement of the spiritual Troubled Water, by Margaret Bonds.  

Bach’s most ambitious and jubilant motet for double choir, Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, will be performed alongside a lush, witty homage to the maestro. The Organ Concerto in G Minor was written by Francis Poulenc, one of the 20th century’s most eclectic composers, whose music is at once deeply emotional and charmingly urbane.  

Avi Stein, organ; Trinity Choir; NOVUS; Melissa Attebury, director  

Mike LeDonne, who grew up playing the Hammond B3 in his parents’ Connecticut music store, is the first performer to marry a gospel choir with a jazz organ inside St. Paul’s Chapel. The musician whom the legendary Oscar Peterson called one of his favorite pianists began booking gigs when he was 10, eventually playing with such icons as Benny Goodman and Sonny Rollins. By 2000, he’d formed his own organ band, The Groover Quartet. In 2023, LeDonne added a gospel choir to the mix on his latest CD, Wonderful!   

Trinity presents Jazz at One in collaboration with JAZZ HOUSE KiDS, to showcase some of the most prolific and influential artists in music history.  

One of the preeminent soloists in the U.S. today highlights the vast orchestral range of Trinity’s magnificent new organ. Stephen Tharp performs his own transcriptions of Franz Liszt’s Totentanz and Joseph Jongen’s final movement of the Symphonie Concertante, as well as an adaptation of Richard Wagner’s Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde. The centerpiece of the evening is his thrilling adaptation of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, which will demonstrate the new organ’s full power and gamut of colors.