The Meetinghouse 2014-15 Concert & Lecture Series continues tomorrow night, November 15th, with Robert Wech playing the 1893 Hutchings-Fisk pipe organ in organ works by Bach, Walond, Franck and Mendelssohn. The concert starts at 7:30pm and will be followed by a reception. General Admission is $15/$12 Seniors & Students.
You are invited to park in the church yard, entering between the stone pillars at the corner of Middle & Church Street. The handicap accessible entrance is at the side entrance, 10 Church Street. Doors open at 7:00pm.
The concert is sponsored by a gift from Judith A. Williams in memory of her husband Robert M. Williams. All proceeds will go towards the ongoing restoration of the building, a centerpiece of the Harbortown Cultural District, Gloucester’s oldest (1806), largest and last remaining Meetinghouse.
The grand instrument played in this concert is one of the most distinguished pipe organs on Cape Ann, built for the Universalist Church in 1893 by George Hutchings, who was also the builder of the original pipe organ for Symphony Hall in Boston. The organ was refurbished by C.B. Fisk, Inc., the world-renowned Gloucester pipe organ firm, in 1962. Robert Wech is a graduate of Oberlin Conservatory, taught music in public schools for over 30 years, and is the newly appointed Music Director of the Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church.
REVIEW ABOUT THE ORGANIST:
“A seasoned and natural performer, Bob Wech demonstrates his great sensitivity to historic American pipe organs by carefully choosing repertoire and registrations that feel entirely at home. His long experience as a teacher and music director, including the RC Cathedral in Scranton, PA and two Synagogues, is evident in the nuanced way he uses the key-action, winding, and unique sounds of the pipe organ to accurately bring the music to life.”
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