Pipe organ recital with the music of Bach, Vivaldi, Mendelssohn and more in Stone Ridge

Organist and conductor Kent Tritle is joined by cellist Arthur Fiacco in a concert, 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 21 at Marbletown Reformed Church, 3750 Main St., Stone Ridge. Tritle is the Director of Cathedral Music and organist at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NYC; Music Director of the Oratorio Society of New York; and Music Director of Musica Sacra. He is a member of the graduate faculty of The Juilliard School and organist of the New York Philharmonic. Fiacco is cellist with the Orchestra of St Luke’s, Carnegie Hall’s resident orchestra. The instrument being played at the recital, a tracker (mechanical action) organ built in Springfield, Massachusetts, by the J.W. Steere & Son Company in 1896, was acquired from the now-closed First Congregational Church of South Egremont, Massachusetts. It was reassembled in the church’s rear gallery and tuned by the firm of Czelusniak et Dugal Inc. (Northampton, Massachusetts) in 2021. The instrument has two manuals, nine ranks of pipes, and mechanical action, with electric/pneumatic pedal unit action and extended rank there.

Light refreshments will follow the recital at the church which is handicap accessible. Admission is free; donations towards the church’s Organ Fund are received with appreciation. For more information, call the church at 845-687-3057 and visit kenttritle.com.

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Organist and conductor Kent Tritle at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NYC. Photo by Joshua South.