# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Advent Pipe Organ Recital & Church Lunch - Thursday, December 18th
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 18 Dec, 2025 at 12:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Do you love pipe organ music? We do too! Come celebrate the season with us at The Park Church. Each Advent we present an lunchtime organ recital for the community. This year's date is Thursday, December 18 at noon. A post-recital soup and sandwich lunch will be available - eat in or take out – for a suggested donation of $5. No reservations are needed, all are welcome! 

This year we celebrate the 50th anniversary of our Schantz Organ - an instrument with 2832 pipes that was installed in our balcony post-flood in 1974. Our organist and music director, Charlotte Cook, curates a program of music selections each Advent to highlight the capacity of the organ's "voices."  

This year's program opens with a vigorous setting of the spiritual “My Lord, What a Morning,” and continues with six pieces:  "Come, O Traveler Unknown" by Dale Wood, a setting of this Scottish folk tune using the organ’s “bagpipe stop”; "Trumpet Tune" by John Stanley, a piece that imitates the sound of a trumpet with numerous echo effects; "Hark, a Thrilling Voice is Sounding" by Benjamin A. Culli, the organ pedals sound the ‘Voice’ in a setting of this 5th century hymn; "People Look East" by Dale Wood, a lively French folk song that pictures a home being prepared for the Christmas ‘Guest’; and the prelude on “Of the Father’s Love Begotten” by T. Frederick H. Candlyn, an organ arrangement on what is perhaps the oldest hymn many congregations sing and a toccata on “Creator of the Stars of Night" by Pietro A. Yon, a fast and loud toccata that incorporates Gregorian plainchant. The recital will close with a toccata on “Creator of the Stars of Night.”

We hope you will join us in the midst of this busy season of preparation and relive the story of Christmas with organ music by Charlotte Cook, accompanied with flute and vocal presentations by Andrea Nichols and Morgan Jolley.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/elmira/advent-pipe-organ-recital-and-church-lunch-thursday-december-18th/200029361452338
- **Event Categories**: nonprofit, christmas
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 6

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Elmira
- **state**: NY
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 208 W Gray St, Elmira, NY, United States, New York 14901
- **lat**: 42.08918
- **long**: -76.80886
- **full address**: 208 W Gray St, Elmira, NY, United States, New York 14901

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Advent Pipe Organ Recital & Church Lunch - Thursday, December 18th being held?
  - **A:** Advent Pipe Organ Recital & Church Lunch - Thursday, December 18th takes place on Thu, 18 Dec, 2025 at 12:00 pm to Thu, 18 Dec, 2025 at 12:00 pm at 208 W Gray St, Elmira, NY, United States, New York 14901.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Advent Pipe Organ Recital & Church Lunch - Thursday, December 18th?
  - **A:** Advent Pipe Organ Recital & Church Lunch - Thursday, December 18th is organized by The Park Church Elmira.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Advent Pipe Organ Recital & Church Lunch - Thursday, December 18th is ideal for music lovers, fans of all genres, and anyone who wants to celebrate the power of music - from intimate gigs and live sessions to festivals and cultural performances. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Elmira, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Advent Pipe Organ Recital & Church Lunch - Thursday, December 18th sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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