Nathan Laube playing a concert on a recently restored instrument...

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Renowned organist performing in Englewood
Posted on Monday, March 19, 2012 5:30 pm
by Melissa Hayes

Internationally acclaimed organist Nathan Laube will perform a solo concert at The First Presbyterian Church of Englewood on April 1.

Internationally acclaimed organist Nathan Laube will play the historic pipe organ at The First Presbyterian Church of Englewood next month.

Laube, who has performed through the United States and Europe will play the recently refurbished organ April 1 at 3 p.m. The concert is free and open to the public but the church is accepting donations.

He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in musical instrument training and studied at the  Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Toulouse in France from October 2010 through June 2011.

Laube will perform the solo recital on the 4,114-pipe instrument, which was installed by Möller Pipe Organ in 1966 and refurbished by Orgues Létourneau last year, thanks to the late Luella Schmidt, a parishioner who left her estate to the organ.

The entire organ, including wooden box pipes and casings that date back to the church's first organ installed in 1918, was dismantled in June and sent to Orgues Létourneau in Canada. Some pipes were cleaned; others were replaced. Every pipe got a new leather valve. All of the electronics and wiring were redone, and the organ can now record when someone is playing and play it back with the touch of a button.

Laube, of Chicago, was a featured performer at the 2009 and 2011 Organ Historical Society's national conventions. In 2010 he was featured at The American Guild of Organists' national convention in Washington, D.C. and will again be featured this year at the national convention in Nashville.

The First Presbyterian Church is at 150 East Palisade Ave., in Englewood.

http://blog.northjersey.com/bergenbeat/3728/renowned-organist-performing-in-englewood/

Eric
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A truly superb and imaginative player and transcriber. I have also yet to meet a nicer human being.

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 ;)   By all accounts the concert was well worth the "price of admission"...

Seehttp://www.organmatters.com/index.php/topic,149.msg6062.html#msg6062

Eric
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