to celebrate their domestic happiness
October 11th, 2008
Today we went to St. Thomas Church on Fifth Avenue for second installment of “Six Saturdays With Messiaen.”
John Scott (the church’s organist and music director) is performing all of Olivier Messiaen’s organ works. Scott plays the church’s incredible Arents Memorial Organ, a Skinner instrument from 1913. It’s huge.
It is wonderful to be in a church when no one is talking! St. Thomas Church on Fifth Avenue is so imposing! I love churches and I love organs and when I think about how it felt to listen to the music today I think “it was restorative” and “I felt stoned.”