NYCAGO - Pipe Organs of NYC - Episode 5: Fifth Avenue Presbyterian & The Riverside Church

[@gheorgheganea3302]

What a beautiful gift from our Heavenly Father the music is and what an inspiring and fulfilling performance! Thank you!

[@paulgalbraith2862]

My chorale from St Michael's College performed Hiawathas Wedding Feast at Riverside way back in 1975. It was a highlight of my singing career with the College. The organ was fabulous.

[@thomasredman3777]

If my memory serves me, I met Christopher as our guest organist for the AGO of Petersburg, VA, annual concert series. It was held at a Presbyterian church on a three manual Casavant. I was impressed with his life story - he's a concert cellist - and his amazing ability to take the simplest of organ pieces (Lorenz) and make them beautiful. Virgil, one of his predecessors loved to take a hymn book and do the same. He came to Riverside as an organ tech and tuner, if memory serves. So good to see he is still at Riverside. Blessings.

[@marshalltaylor3488]

I sang at 5th Ave in 1981 with Bill Whitehead. He graciously gave me use of the organ. I didn’t know the console was moveable. But the room is rather dead. The ceiling is covered in canvas or fabric. Excellent performances however.

[@OrganNLou]

Great performances (why a terrible mono recording of Riverside?)

[@williammitchell1864]

What are the features, stops and specifications of this organ?

[@bhigdaddymark]

I'm disappointed that 5th Avenue Presbyterian hasn't done something about the Volkswagen Beetle like acoustics yet. That room doesn't do that Austin any justice at all. Yes maybe some poor church in a poor community in the city, but there's no excuse for this room to sound this way ON FIFTH AVENUE between St. Thomas and St. Patrick's. 5th Avenue Presbyterian and St. Bartholomew's both need to spend some money on fixing the acoustics like Riverside Church did to stunning results.

[@marysheeran519]

There is a historic organ at St. Peter's on West 20th and it is begging for restoration. But no, you'll stick with the rich ones. The big ones. I wonder what you're missing. Oh, yes, when the population started to move uptown, the rich went east. The poor came to Chelsea. And to St. Peter's, which served them, refusing to move uptown but to stay with the people who moved into the neighborhood. Boy, you are missing some treasures.

[@chapmand63]

Has anyone ever told this guy he looks like Pee Wee Herman?

[@scronx]

"social justice" -- what's that?

[@thedevilsreject23]

Acoustically dead in both sadly