Music on Tap at Trinity Lutheran Church

November 12, 2009 by ccadmin

“Music on Tap” at Trinity Lutheran Church, Cleveland, on October 10. ClevelandClassical.com’s editor and publisher, Daniel Hathaway at the historic Beckerath organ. Held the second Saturday of the month, “Music on Tap” includes informal organ concerts, West Side Market bratwursts for sale and free beer samples from Great Lakes Brewing Co. Proceeds benefit the organ restoration fund.

Trinity’s Beckerath organ is a historical landmark. Built by Rudolph von Beckerath in 1956, it is the first large modern pipe organ in North America built on historic Baroque principles.

The next “Music on Tap” is Saturday, November 14 from 1:00 – 4:00 pm. Organists Nathan Carterette (1:00 pm) Brian Wentzel (1:45 pm) and Graham Schultz (2:30 pm) will perform. 2031 West 30th Street (at Lorain).

Photos: Sam Hubish

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Daniel Hathaway launched ClevelandClassical.com in September of 2008 after completing a 31 year tenure as music director of Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland and artistic director of Music & Performing Arts at Trinity, where he founded Trinity Chamber Orchestra. During those years, he also served as music director of The Great Lakes Theatre Festival, and assistant chorus master of Cleveland Opera.
Educated at Harvard College, Princeton University and the Episcopal Divinity School, Hathaway studied orchestral conducting at Tanglewood with Leon Barzin and Leonard Bernstein. As a concert organist, he has played recitals in the U.S. cathedrals of St. John the Divine, New York, Washington, Kansas City and Topeka, in the U.K. cathedrals of Chester, Edinburgh, Norwich & Winchester, and in France, Germany, Austria & Sweden.

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