Tuesday Pipes is a World Class organ concert every Tuesday at 12:10pm. Performed at Christ Church 141 East Avenue.
There is no charge, however contributions to Friends of Music are always welcome.
Tuesday Pipes is live and in person every week! This is a world class organ concert, freely offered, in the beautiful sacred space of historic Christ Church. Outstanding!
ROCHESTER, NY (July 22, 2021)— The Eastman School of Music Organ Department kicks off a new season of Tuesday Pipes — 25-30 minute organ recitals by Eastman students, faculty, and guests as part of the department’s ongoing initiative to bring outstanding organ music to the Rochester community. These weekly lunchtime concerts will begin, after a long hiatus, on August 10th at 12:10 pm at Christ Church, 141 East Ave. Events are free and open to the public.Parking is available on the street and in the East End Garage across the street from the church.
Christ Church is home to two of Rochester’s most prized instruments: the Craighead-Saunders Organ in the rear gallery is a scientific process-reconstruction of an 18th-century instrument that still exists today in Vilnius, Lithuania, created by the central German organ builder Adam Gottlob Casparini in 1776. Completed after six years of research on the original instrument in Vilnius, it is perhaps the only instrument in the United States where one can hear the music of Bach just as he might have heard it. At the opposite end of the church, the Hook & Hastings Organ in the chancel represents the 19th-century American Romantic tradition, featuring original pipes from 1861 and 1893.
Stephen Kennedy Music Director, Christ Church Rochester Director of the ESM/Christ Church Schola Cantorum Instructor of Sacred Music, Eastman School of Music
