NYCAGO - Pipe Organs of NYC - Episode 4: Saint James' Church & Church of the Resurrection

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Tonight at 7:30 PM, the NYCAGO airs our fourth episode of Pipe Organs of NYC series, visiting two churches of Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Saint James’ and Resurrection, though parochial neighbors, are a study in contrast. Both churches have received new instruments within the last fifteen years: one is a new Schoenstein and the other is a Casavant transplanted by Organ Clearing House. Internationally known recitalists Stephen Tharp and David Enlow put them through their paces in a colorful evening of transcriptions.
Saint James’ Church was founded in 1810 as an Episcopal summer chapel in the countryside of Lennox Hill. The current and third edifice was built in 1884 to the Romanesque designs of Robert H. Robertson and was dramatically reconfigured and reoriented in 1924 by Ralph Adams Cram.
In 2008, Saint James’ commissioned Schoenstein to build the Bicentennial Organ, with the 18-rank gallery organ as their Opus 156 and the 78-rank chancel organ as their Opus 157.
The music department at Saint James’ consists of Dr. Davis Wortman, Director of Music and Organist, who has been at his post since 2000; Loraine Enlow, Music Associate for Children and Youth; and Stephen Tharp, Artist in Residence.
The Church of the Resurrection (known until 1902 as the Church of the Holy Sepulchre) was founded in 1866. The cornerstone of the building was laid in on November 16, 1868 - happy anniversary! Resurrection is known for it Anglo-Catholic liturgical practices and its choir’s extensive repertoire of Mass ordinaries.
The present organ, Casavant’s Opus 665 of 1916, was transplanted in 2009 from the for the crypt of Saints Peter and Paul Church (now Basilica), in Lewiston, Maine. (This work was recently described by John Bishop in another NYCAGO webcast.)
David Enlow has been the Organist and Choir Master since 2001, and Aaron Tan is the Organ Scholar.

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I’ve had the pleasure of visiting a number of the “city” churches and hearing notable organists over earlier years. Thank you for refreshing my memories.