Homecoming Organ Recital: Stephen Tharp

 

 

STEPHEN THARP at RIVERSIDE

 

Tuesday, September 17 at 7:00 

The Riverside Church, NYC

 

Join us for a spectacular opening to Riverside's 2024-2025 season with a recital by internationally acclaimed concert organist, Stephen Tharp. ​

 

Tharp, hailed as “the organist for the connoisseur,"  is recognized as one of the great concert organists of our age. Soprano​ ​Kendra Berentsen will join for the Four Last Songs of Richard Strauss.

 

Champagne reception to follow. 

Tickets available at the door. 

$20 | General Admission

$15 | Students and Seniors

This concert will also be livestreamed below and on our YouTube channel, free of charge.

 

"Stephen Tharp is the best organist in America."

The Diapason

 

"...performed colorfully, rousing and splendid..."

The New York Times

 

"Tharp is 'authoritative, impassioned, supremely musical and technically impeccable'."

The American Organist

 

“With Mr. Tharp, the magic is always there."

Bachtrack.com

 

The Riverside Church organ is one of the largest pipe organs in the world. Designed in 1948 by Virgil Fox, then organist of the Riverside Church, it was built by the Aeolian-Skinner Organ Company of Boston, and dedicated in 1955 in concert with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos. The organ was subsequently redesigned by succeeding organist Fred Swann and enlarged over a 30-year period by Curator of Organs Anthony Bufano, to become the magnificent instrument we know today. It currently comprises 149 stops, 207 ranks, and more than 12,000 pipes spread over ten divisions divided between the Chancel and Gallery. The main Chancel console is five-manuals, with a secondary four-manual console in the Gallery. For more detailed information about the Riverside Church organs please visit the New York City Chapter Organ Project.

 

Riverside Organists:

Dr. Harold Vincent Milligan (1930-1940)

Frederick Kinsley (1940-1946)

Virgil Fox (1946-1965)

Frederick Swann (1966-1982)

Dr. John C. Walker (1983-1992)

Dr. Timothy Smith (1992-2008)

Christopher Johnson (2009-2021)

Christopher Creaghan (2021-present)

 

 

The Riverside Church 

490 Riverside Drive

New York, NY

https://www.trcnyc.org