The 2024-2025 Pipes Alive! series continues with organist Walden Moore playing the St. John’s organ on Sunday, December 1, at 12:30pm. This event will be presented in person and by livestream.

The concert is free admission – donations welcome in any amount. Checks payable to Music at the Red Door or click here to donate online.

Click on the image below to watch. Click here to download the full program pdf.

PROGRAM:

The Agincourt Hymn – John Dunstable (1390-1453)
Nun komm, der heiden Heiland, BWV 659 – Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Four Variations on Puer natus in Bethlehem – Rebecca Groom Te Velde (b. 1956)
xxxi. A child is born in Bethlehem
xxxiii. Rejoice, rejoice, sing high, sing low
xxxiv. Benedicamus Domino
xxxv. To thee, O Lord, be glory paid
Prelude on Amazing Grace – George Shearing (1919-2011)
Improvisation on Grand Isle – Gerre Hancock (1934-2012), Transcribed by Todd Wilson (b. 1954)
xxx(I sing a song of the saints of God)
Pièce Héroïque (1878) from Trois Pièces – César Franck (1822-1890)

Learn more about St. John’s famed Austin pipe organ.

About the Artist:

R. Walden Moore retired as Director of Music of Trinity Church, New Haven, in June of 2024, after forty years of serving in that position. He directed the Choir of Adults and Girls, the Choir of Men and Boys, and the Parish Choir of mixed adult voices in a regular schedule of parish services and appearances both inside and outside the parish. He has most recently been serving as Interim Director of Music at St. John’s Church in West Hartford, CT.  He continues to serve as clinician, guest conductor and organist for choir festivals and church choir clinics throughout the year.  Having begun his career serving as Organist and Choirmaster of St. James’s Church in West Hartford, CT, his degrees in organ are from the University of Kentucky, Lexington, and from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music/School of Music, where he studied with Robert Baker and Gerre Hancock. In January of 2007, he was appointed Adjunct Lecturer in Organ at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music/School of Music, where, one semester each year, he co-teaches a course in Liturgical Keyboard Skills with colleague Mark Miller.  He is past Chair of the Music Commission of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut, and has served on the Executive Board of the Connecticut Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association.  He currently serves on the advisory board for the Gerre Hancock Organ Scholarship sponsored by the Association of Anglican Musicians. He has also served as organ design consultant for churches throughout Connecticut.   In recent years, he has been Music Director for Royal School of Church Music in America Summer Courses in Charlotte, NC, Wilkes-Barre, PA, Newport, RI, Boston, MA, Houston and Dallas TX.

Join us for half-hour organ concerts featuring St. John’s magnificent Austin pipe organ, on the first Sunday of the month, November through June, 12:30 p.m. with regional organists. Free!