Baroque concert to feature Ensemble Breve, pipe organ

MILFORD, PA — The Church of the Good Shepherd and Saint John the Evangelist will serve as the setting for the fifth concert in Kindred Spirits Arts Programs’ 2007 season, featuring The Ensemble Breve performing French and German works from the Baroque, at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, August 11. The ensemble consists of Deborah Booth, flute and recorder; Louise Schulman, viola and violin; and Gabriel Shuford, harpsichord.

Since its founding, the church has been a center of Milford’s spiritual and musical life. The church community traces its roots to 1856 when a group of townspeople with names like Fauchere, Mott, Pinchot,and Quick gathered to found an Episcopal parish in Milford.

The concert is a benefit to help the parish defray the costs of its recently acquired pipe organ. In addition to the music of Bach, Couperin and Telemann, the Schantz organ with its 25 ranks and 1,600 pipes will be showcased with an interlude performed by well-known organist Henry Repp. In this era of digitized and electrically amplified music, there is still nothing to match the sound of a live pipe organ, and there are not many venues where one can be heard.

Tickets cost $20 for adults and $10 for children under the age of 12. Tickets are available from The Gallery at Forest Hall, corner of Broad and Harford Streets, Milford. This concert is generously sponsored by Century 21 Roy B. Hull and GMAC.

For more information call 570/296-4299.