Join us as Trinity’s own organist and chorusmaster, Avi Stein, celebrates the church’s glorious new organ by unleashing the full range of its expressive capabilities. Showcasing how the 8,000-pipe instrument performs in dialogue with an orchestra — and how it can perform as an orchestra in itself — Stein joins with the strings of NOVUS to present two concertos: Francis Poulenc’s Organ Concerto in G Minor, a lush and witty homage to J. S. Bach, and American composer Walter Piston’s Prelude and Allegro for Organ and Strings, written for a radio broadcast during the Second World War.

He will also perform Sonata on the 94th Psalm, written by Julius Reubke, a disciple of Franz Liszt whose potential was cut short when he died at 23. A vast meditation comparable to great Romantic tone poems or epic Wagnerian operas, this work demonstrates the instrument’s full palette of colors and emotional possibilities. Stein rounds out the program with his own arrangement of the jazz-influenced spiritual Troubled Water, by Margaret Bonds, one the first Black women to enter the mainstream of American classical music.