Music
Concerts and Performances
In addition to its longstanding tradition of the finest sacred music in worship, CHT is pleased to use its space to host a vast array of wonderful concerts and performances. Click here for information on the latest musical events.
Brown Bag Concerts
BROWN BAG LUNCH CONCERT PROGRAMS
Bring your lunch and enjoy a free concert with talented local artists!
EVERY WEDNESDAY 12:30PM – 1:30PM
Click here for a list of performers and dates.
Listen Online
Click here to listen to audio recordings of recent anthems and motets sung in our choral Eucharists.
Choir
JOHN FRENCH ORGANIST/CHOIRMASTER
BENJAMIN LEIBY, ASSISTANT ORGANIST
Many parishioners cite the music at CHT as a beautiful, accessible and meaningful part of worship here. The choir, which includes professional and amateur vocalists, sings at the 11:00 a.m. service every Sunday. Rehearsals are held prior to the service, from 9:15 - 10:30 a.m. To arrange for an audition, contact the organist-choirmaster, Dr. John French, 215.567.1267 x. 21.
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John French, organist/choirmaster at The Church of the Holy Trinity since 1992, has been active as a church musician for over thirty-five years. Dr. French is the William F. Heefner Professor of Music at Ursinus College. He has been a member of the faculty for twenty-nine years where he teaches music history and conducts the College Choir and Meistersingers. He has received the Laughlin Professional Achievement Award and Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching from the college in recognition of his professional and scholarly accomplishments. Dr. French is also the associate conductor of the Mendelssohn Club Chorus of Philadelphia.
Dr. French has degrees from the Philadelphia College of the Performing Arts, Westminster Choir College and the College-Conservatory of Music of the University of Cincinnati. In addition to other grants and awards he has received two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Dr. French is Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Community Music School of Collegeville and President of The Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia. He has served in numerous offices for professional organizations including the American Guild of Organists and is past President of the Pennsylvania Collegiate Choral Association and the Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association.
Anthems: Advent Through Pentecost 2007-2008 (A)
Our organ
The organ was originally a Roosevelt Organ, which was installed in 1880. In 1960, the Roosevelt Organ was replaced with a Moller Organ. However, some of the pieces of the original Roosevelt are still part of the organ you hear today.
Our Carillon
The oldest manually played Carillon in North America. This was a gift in 1882 from Mr. Joseph Temple, a Quaker Dry Goods Merchant, in memory of his wife Martha Anna Kirkley Temple. The bells were cast at the celebrated foundry of Severin Van Aerschodt in Louvain, Beligum and arrived in Philadelphia on the 18th of July in 1882. The Carillon was restored in 2001 thanks to a generous gift from a parishioner and was rededicated on April 29, 2001.
Choir involvement
We are always interested in meeting and interviewing people who wish to become members of our choir. Auditions are scheduled with Dr. French and he may be contacted at jfrench@ursinus.edu to set up an appointment.
Our Choir
Stephen Caldwell, Margaret Caldwell-Blanchard, Gail Caruso, Rebecca Diamond, Anne Frey, Elizabeth Frey, Lida Gifford, John Goldsborough, Andrew Gutknecht, Benjamin Leiby, Max Perkins, Ellen Peters, Robert Rodgers, Ted Serota, Amy Spencer.
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