1868 Hook organ at Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA

Travel with us to the City of Brotherly Love. We’ll listen to a diverse group of instruments of various tone and texture, from a little Dieffenbach chamber organ that’s more than 200 years old to the lavish 1931 Skinner organ at Girard College. Our music also covers the gamut, from a Colonial voluntary to a Mexican toccata. Celebrate two centuries of the art of organbuilding in America, with a sampler of resilient, vintage instruments recorded in and around Philly. My friends in the Organ Historical Society and I invite you to join us for a celebration of The Pipes of Philadelphia.

Through folk tunes and patriotic airs, the pipe organ celebrates our national spirit with it’s own kind of fireworks.

…a celebration of one of the foremost and most prolific of 19th century organ building firms in the United States, E. & G. G. Hook.