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The Hook Organ at St. John's Church
| St. John's "Quarter Till" organ recital series, at the Zabriskie Memorial Church of Saint John the Evangelist, was a weekly series of mini organ recitals held at 4:45 p.m. ("quarter till/to five") on Sundays. They featured Bach and other composers, with a live video feed projected onto a screen showing the organist and a close-up view of the organ's inner workings during the music. The church's Hook & Hastings organ was built in 1894, and the console was later rebuilt by J.H. & C.S. Odell. Peter Stoltzfus Berton was the organist and choirmaster at St. John's and led fundraising and restoration efforts for the organ over the years. This video was recut from a previous YouTube video originally produced by VJ Farmer in 2016. |
 As it turns out, I built the original
website for St. John's church around 1995, and recently came across the file
for another musical event that was hosted in 1999.
This is an example of where the internet was then. We had only dial-up phone which severely limited photo size and quality, and definitely no practical video. This page is currently live for demo purposes by clicking on the image. VJ |