St. Bart's Presents New Years Eve Concert, 12/31

On Friday, December 31 at 11:00 pm, William K. Trafka will play the 15th annual Organ Concert to Usher in the New Year. Trafka, St. Bartholomew's Director of Music and Organist, will play works of Bach, Howells, and Planyavsky as well as organ transcriptions of orchestral works of Vivaldi and Walton. Trafka's own transcription of Copland's "Fanfare for The Common Man" will be played at the stroke of midnight with Chris Nappi and Sam Lazzara, percussionists. The concert is free and open to the public. A free-will offering will be received. More information can be received by calling the Concert Office at (212) 378-0248 or by consulting the Great Music at St. Bart's website at www.stbarts.org.

The Great Music Series, produced by the Mid-Manhattan Performing Arts Foundation, Inc., offers a diverse variety of concerts from large scale choral works and organ concerts in the church to chamber music and jazz in the acoustically remarkable chapel. Crucial to the musical programming of the series is St. Bartholomew's Choir, a fully professional choir and the Boy and Girl Choristers, renowned as one of the finest children's choir in the metropolitan area. The church also possesses an Aeolian/Skinner pipe organ of 168 stops, the largest in New York City and considered to be one of the greatest examples of the American Classic Organ of the 20th century. The Brimberg Memorial Organ Console, installed in 2006, is movable and is brought out for each organ concert, allowing the audience to watch the performer.

Great Music concerts take place at St. Bartholomew's Church at the corner of Park Avenue and 51st Street. Subway: 6 to 51sst Street. For more information, call (212) 378-0248