Redeemer’s arts initiative has a new name, and is now organized as a 501c(3).
Anyone who has attended a RedeemerArtes event–perhaps a Friday night Holbrook organ recital or an instrumental or choral concert–knows how art and music (and a wine intermission!) help invite people into community. Through events like these, Redeemer members have served our church community as well as many other friends and neighbors who have a shared appreciation for fine music, art, and beauty. Several years into this ministry, we hope to share the gifts of an arts ministry with our neighbors even more. To that end, this past spring Redeemer founded a new organization, Arts on Alexander (AoA). Read more
Visit the Arts on Alexander website for details on events and to purchase concert tickets.
Felix Mendelssohn’s Elijah
Period instrument performance
The Redeemer Choir, soloists, and 45-piece Musica Redemptor Orchestra
Saturday, December 7, 7:00 p.m.
Sunday, December 8, 5:00 p.m.
Holbrook Organ Series: David Polley
Music Director, Grace Episcopal Church, Georgetown
Professor of Organ, Southwestern University
Friday, November 8, 7:30 p.m.
Playing the music of… Johann Sebastian Bach, Denis Bédard, Georg Böhm, Dietrich Buxtehude, Vincent Lübeck, Philip Moore, and Charles Ore.
Click here for Holbrook Organ Recital Series information
Historic Holbrook Organ
Built by Edwin L. Holbrook (1824-1904) of East Medway, Mass., in 1862, this instrument was first employed by the Universalist Church, Southbridge, Mass. It was later removed by organ aficionado Barbara Owen and rebuilt and enlarged by Charles Fisk and John Brombaugh of C. B. Fisk, Gloucester, Mass., in 1966. At that time it was placed in the rear gallery of Harvard Memorial Church to serve as a temporary instrument between the time of the removal of the Aeolian-Skinner organ and the installation of the new C. B. Fisk Opus 46, the very organ that will eventually serve in Redeemer’s future sanctuary. The Holbrook organ remained in the Harvard location for 45 years. In the summer of 2011 it was moved to Redeemer Presbyterian Church and set up for use in Covenant Hall.