The Organist:
Jason Roberts is Music Director at the Church of the Blessed Sacrament in New York City. He has also served at St. Bartholomew’s Church in New York and at St. James’s Episcopal Church in West Hartford, Connecticut. He is a first prize winner (2008) of the American Guild of Organists National Competition in Organ Improvisation, and has been a finalist at competitions in St Albans and Haarlem. He keeps an active recital schedule and enjoys accompanying silent films. He has served on the faculty at Westminster Choir College, and his compositions have been performed at such diverse venues as Princeton University Chapel in New Jersey, Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, and Westminster Abbey in London.
The Organ:
Marshall & Ogletree Opus 15, originally built for Trinity Wall Street and heard there daily for 15 years, has a spectacular new home at the Church of the Blessed Sacrament on W. 71st Street (near Broadway), in New York City. The instrument is two fully independent organs, one in the gallery and the other in the chancel, playable separately or together, as desired.
The amazing tonal properties of the organs, voiced note-by-note for Blessed Sacrament’s unique acoustics, are on full display here, courtesy of award-winning organist, Jason Roberts, and his jaw-dropping improvisational skill!
18 июл 2020
