The Estey Organ Museum will hold its annual membership meeting on Sunday, October 20, 4 pm via Zoom. Please contact the museum at info@esteyorganmuseum.org for a Zoom link and meeting materials.
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Museum Hours during EsteyFest
EsteyFest Concerts Announced
On Sunday, September 29, the ROS, EOM, and BHS are inviting the public to three concerts celebrating Estey reed and pipe organs. Concerts will be held at Episilon Spires in downtown Brattleboro. Admission is free, though donations are welcome. 1:30 pm Contemporary music adapted for the Estey reed organ by scholar and keyboardist Artis Wodehouse 3:00 pm Music representing the history of the Estey Organ Company written or arranged for reed organs and performed by six organists from the International Reed Organ Society 7:00 pm Musical vespers (“Music in the Ste. Clotilde Tradition”) performed by celebrated organist Susan Ferre on the glorious Estey pipe organ Brattleboro Community Television will live-stream the 1:30 and 3:00 programs. Click here for more in […]
Nosferatu at Epsilon Spires
On Saturday, September 28 at 7:30 pm, Boston’s acclaimed Arpeggione Ensemble will bring to life the original score of F.W. Murnau’s 1922 cult-classic silent film, “Nosferatu: a Symphony of Horrors” at Epsilon Spires in downtown Brattleboro. Arpeggione’s 10-piece chamber orchestra will create an authentic cinema experience, performing on instruments of the period and featuring a 1920s Estey reed organ. Advanced limited seating is available for $20 at epsilonspires.org. Tickets may be purchased at the door if available. Click here for more information.
EsteyFest Schedule Announced
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Invitation to a Special Recital
On Sunday, June 30, 4:00 pm, Gavin Klein, Organ Scholar at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, will play works of Bach, Pachelbel and others on the first pipe organ installed by the Estey Organ Company. The recital will take place at First United Methodist Church, 18 Town Crier Drive, Brattleboro. First United Methodist/Beloved Community is wheelchair accessible, and there is ample parking. A $10 donation is requested to support the Estey Organ Museum.
EOM Opening on May 18
EsteyFest’24 Scheduled for September
Members of the International Reed Organ Society have chosen Brattleboro, Vermont for their biennial gathering to take place in September 2024. The event will be called EsteyFest ’24 and be sponsored by the Estey Organ Museum, Brattleboro Historical Society, and the Reed Organ Society. Members have been planning a multi-day event to showcase their on-going contributions to reed organ history and preservation, and to promote musical relevance and continued use of reed organs. The Estey Organ Museum at the Estey factory complex will be the gathering headquarters, where attendees can visit, renew old friendships, and play reed organs, as well as the walk-through Estey pipe organ. The Estey factory complex is on the National Register of Historic places, and stands […]
Two Rehomings Scheduled for October
Estey Organ Museum’s annual rehomings are scheduled for October 7 and October 14 from 2 to 4 pm. Rehoming is a way for EOM to get its duplicate and non-museum quality organs into the hands of those who will use and enjoy them. There will be several dozen restorable instruments available from the collections of both EOM and the Brattleboro Historical Society. There are also a baby grand piano, wooden pipes, clamps, vintage cabinet-sized speakers, and several non-Estey reed organs, including a fully restored Sterling. Most of the unrestored organs are free but donations are appreciated. Many of the surplus instruments could be rehabilitated by cleaning them or repairing the bellows. Others instruments are musically unusable but are valuable to […]
