FLENTROP ORGAN REDEDICATION WEEKEND
October 16 & 17, 2004

First Congregational church
1009 Main Street
Branford, Connecticut


Saturday, October 16
10 a.m.-Noon: Organ Master Class with Professor David Higgs
Sponsored jointly with the New Haven Chapter of the American Guild of Organists
Observers are welcome.


Sunday, October 17
10 a.m. FESTIVE WORSHIP
Featuring the use of organ with choir & congregation, plus solo organ music.

Senior Choir
The Rev. Kathryn Nichols, director
C. Villiers Stanford, Te Deum in B-flat
Ralph Vaughan Williams, O How Amiable
Erik Routley, Sing the Praises of the Lord
Guest Organist, Dr. Mark Brombaugh


Mark Brombaugh has been Director of Music and Organist at United Church on the Green in New Haven, Connecticut since 1992. A graduate of Oberlin College and Yale University, he has served on music faculties of Westminster Choir College (Princeton, NJ) and the Universities of Illinois and Oregon, teaching organ, harpsichord and church music. Dr. Brombaugh is well-known as an organ and harpsichord recitalist and clinician throughout the United States and is past national secretary of The Organ Historical Society. He maintains an active interest in organ building, having been Curator of organs at Westminster Choir College , and has served as organ consultant for numerous churches around the nation, including First Congregational Church, Branford.


4 p.m. CONCERT
Professor David Higgs, Eastman School of Music
Music of Buxtehude, Sweelinck, Clerambault, Guillou, Bach, Mendelssohn and others.


David Higgs is one of our nation's foremost organists. He heads the organ department at Eastman where his students have won many prestigious organ competitions. A graduate of the Manhattan School of Music, with a Performer's Certificate from Eastman, he maintains an active concert schedule, delighting audiences with his sparkling musicianship and genial and lively personality, and has inaugurated many important new instruments including St. Stephan's Cathedral, Vienna; the Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas; and the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola in New York City. His performances with ensembles have included the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Chanticleer, and the Empire Brass, and he has recorded for Delos International, Pro Organo, and Gothic records.