Mid-Manhattan Performing Arts Foundation (MMPAF)

04/07/2025

Hear Alexander Pattavina perform Franck’s Trois Chorals and other pieces on St. Bart’s historic 12,422 pipe Aeolian-Skinner organ.
Monday, April 14 at 6:00 pm
A $20 donation is requested.

04/03/2025

César Franck (1822-1890) was in the process of writing the Trois Chorals before hitting his head in a collision while riding in a horse-drawn buggy. Although he seemed fine initially, he slowly began feeling the adverse effects. Suspecting that his injury gave him only months to live, he finished the pieces but never saw them published. Come hear Franck’s final musical testament as well as other pieces performed by Alexander Pattavina on the historic Aeolian-Skinner organ at St. Bart’s. Monday, April 14 at 6:00 pm. A $20 donation is requested.

03/30/2025

The Apple Hill String Quartet is back in the Chapel this afternoon! Gretchen Pusch will be a guest artist

For tickets, go to mmpaf.org

03/28/2025

***New Hampshire meets New York city! ***

Sunday, March 30 at 2:30 PM
The Chapel at St. Bartholomew’s Church
Apple Hill String Quartet
Gretchen Pusch, flute

The quartet will perform works by composers Meredith Monk and Kian Ravaei. Kian Ravaei will be there to introduce his work. Flutist Gretchen Pusch will join the quartet to perform a quintet by Amy Beach, a longtime St. Bartholomew’s parishioner who wrote for the choir in the early 20th century.

Join us in The Chapel for this beautifully curated program. For tickets, go to mmpaf.org.

03/25/2025

The Apple Hill String Quartet returns!

Sunday, March 30 at 2:30 PM
The Chapel at St. Bartholomew’s Church
Apple Hill String Quartet
Gretchen Pusch, flute

Join us for this beautifully curated program at the Chapel at St. Barts. Kian Ravaei will be there to introduce his piece. Tickets are on sale now at mmpaf.org.

03/18/2025

A moment for New York History

Amy Beach, the first large-scale successful American female composer lived in New York City from 1930 until her death in 1944. During that time, she was the composer-in-residence at St. Barts, though her music had been played at the church for 20 years before, attributed to “H.H.A. Beach.”

Travel back in time to hear Amy Beach played at St. Barts once again by the Apple Hill String Quartet with Gretchen Pusch, flute on Sunday, March 30, 2025.

$25 ($15 for students and seniors), link in bio!

02/06/2025

Swipe to see the performers!✨

Next week’s recital, Ophelia, features sopranos Zoe Allen and Olivia Greene, with pianist Christopher Allen.

Join us Tuesday, February 11th at 7:30pm for a Valentine’s themed program you won’t soon forget 🌹💔

Will we see you there? Get your tickets now at MMPAF.org (link in bio)

01/29/2025

Ophelia ✨

7:30 PM
The Chapel at St. Bartholomew’s Church
Zoe Allen & Olivia Greene, sopranos
Christopher Allen, piano

Ophelia, the tragic heroine from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, has captivated artists for centuries becoming a symbol of beauty, innocence, and melancholy. Painters, composers, and writers have depicted her ethereal presence in forms ranging from delicate to haunting. Her story of love, madness, and death continues to inspire deep emotions, making her a timeless muse. To celebrate St. Valentine, sopranos Zoe Allen and Olivia Greene with pianist Christopher Allen present a program dedicated to Ophelia, featuring music from Saint-Saëns and Strauss to contemporary interpretations that explore her enduring legacy.

Join us in two weeks for this beautiful recital! Tickets at MMPAF.org!

01/23/2025

TOMORROW ✨

American Symphony Orchestra
Bard Festival Chorale
James Bagwell, Music Director of the Bard Festival Chorale
Leon Botstein, Music Director

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788), the fifth child of Johann Sebastian Bach, was an influential composer working at the time of transition between the elder Bach’s Baroque style and Classical style that followed it. The A*O performs the US premieres of two of his oratorios: Heilig ist Gott, H.778 and Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu, H.777.

Pre-concert lecture at 7 pm ✨ Concert at 8 pm

$25-$45 Tickets at www.AmericanSymphony.org

12/27/2024

✨Ring in the new year with a fun and festive concert at 11 pm, followed by a champagne reception at the stroke of midnight. With over 12,000 pipes sounding into the resplendent nave from both sides of the chancel, the rear gallery, and even above in the dome, the dynamic range and vast color palette of the Æolian- Skinner organ at St. Bartholomew’s is an experience to behold in person.✨

$20 suggested donation: click here. No tickets are required. More info MMPAF.com

Great Music is produced by the Mid-Manhattan Performing Arts Foundation, which exists to cultivate, promote, and sponsor the performing arts at St. Bartholomew’s Church, a treasured masterpiece of architecture in Midtown Manhattan. ✨

12/12/2024

Deck the halls with bows of……plaid?

Another year of our festive dress rehearsal tradition! We‘re ready to present our✨Joyous Christmas Concert ✨ tomorrow night, December 13th, at 7:30pm!

Get your tickets now at MMPAF.org!! 🎄

12/06/2024

Join us NEXT FRIDAY to see the St. Bartholomew’s Choir (and the whole Church!) all dressed up and filled with holiday cheer! ✨✨✨

The Joyous Christmas Concert is December 13th at 7:30pm. Tickets available at MMPAF.org 🎄

11/24/2024

It’s that time of year! Join us for our….

✨Joyous Christmas Concert✨

Outside of the choir stalls, members of the St. Bartholomew’s Choir are often heard at many of the city’s most prestigious venues ranging from Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center to Broadway stages and New York’s finest jazz clubs. Hear them celebrate the holiday season in our beautiful sanctuary with beloved traditional carols as well as festive new arrangements of sacred and secular Christmas favorites, all accompanied on our famed pipe organ.

Tickets: $100 (Angel), $50, $30

Get your ticket now at MMPAF.org ✨

11/17/2024

Swipe to see this great musical duo, in the beginning ➡️ today!
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And hear them perform TOMORROW, November 17th, at 2:30pm!✨
“My first time hearing Abraham and Isaac was in my teens — my mom was performing, and I was the page turner, “ relates Emerson Sieverts. “I’m thrilled that this time we get to sing together.”
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Join us! No tickets are needed to attend. A donation of $20 is suggested, which can be made at the concert or in advance at MMPAF.org

11/12/2024

THIS SUNDAY, November 17 at 2:30pm in the Chapel, we present Isaac and Abraham. Mother/son duo Barbara Hollinshead (mezzo-soprano) and Emerson Sieverts (tenor) have devised a topsy-turvy program exemplified by Benjamin Britten’s Canticle II: Abraham and Issac. Abraham is to be sung by a tenor and Isaac by an alto, so the performance will swap who is parent and who is child — hence the concert’s title: Isaac and Abraham.
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No tickets are needed to attend. A donation of $20 is suggested, which can be made at the concert or in at MMPAF.org/support (link to website in bio)
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Join us!

10/11/2024

Who left the organ out??

We did! TONIGHT, October 11 at 7:30pm at St. Bart’s, hear AND see Johannes Ebenbauer in recital. The concert is part of a host of jubilee celebrations marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of one of Austria’s greatest symphonists, Anton Bruckner (1824-1896). In his native Austria and around the world, Bruckner celebrations have been running in recent days, from Sep 4 to Oct 11, Bruckner’s birth and death anniversaries.
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No tickets are needed to attend. A donation of $20 is suggested, which can be made at the concert or in advance.
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10/10/2024

Hear Johannes Ebenbauer, professor of church music at the University of Vienna and past music director of St. Stephen’s Cathedral in recital at St. Bart’s TOMORROW, October 11th at 7:30pm.

Prof. Ebenbauer’s program is inspired by Bruckner’s work as an organist, an improviser, and a symphonist. Bruckner left only a handful of notated compositions for organ and the program opens with one of these. We will also hear the first movement of his Ninth Symphony, transcribed for a large symphonic organ, for which the organ at St. Bart’s is an ideal vehicle. The program also marks the 150th anniversary of Charles Ives’s birth, with a performance of his Variations on “America.” The concert will conclude with a four-movement symphony improvised (!) by Prof. Ebenbauer in a Romantic style based on themes from Bruckner’s Symphony No. 8, Mass in F Minor, and Te Deum.

No tickets are needed to attend! A donation of $20 is suggested, which can be made at the concert or in advance.