Fantastic Organ Recital By Andrew Shenton On Amazing Organ Built By Weston Organ Company, Hook and Hastings
Sunday, June 14 at 3:00 PM
 St. Peter's Music Director Andrew Shenton, organ
www.andrewshenton.com
Music by Franck, Leighton, Lefébure-Wély and others
Cathedral of the Holy Cross
1400 Washington St in the historic South End of Boston
Admission free
St. Peter's Church, Weston, is
pleased to invite the public to an organ recital by St. Peter's
Music Director Andrew Shenton playing the fantastic 1875 E. & G.G. Hook &
Hastings Organ at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston's
historic South End. This organ, opus 801,
is the
largest extant organ built by the Hook and Hastings firm of Weston, MA. This is a special recital for
the Feast of Corpus
Christi.
Founded in
Boston in 1827, Hook and Hastings moved to Weston,
Massachusetts in 1875. In its 108 years of operation, E. and
G.G. Hook and Hastings produced an estimated 2,614 organs ranging
is size from eight to eighty feet for locations throughout the
U.S. These included organs for First Parish and St.
Peter's Church in Weston, Weston College, Wellesley College, the
College of Music in Wellesley, and the Unitarian Church in
Wellesley Hills.
  Hook and Hastings was
the largest industry in Weston and produced an organ a week in
its huge, wooden factory on Viles Street, just north of the railroad
tracts. The company closed in 1935, a victim of the Depression
and the building was demolished in 1936.
The company's
organs ranged in size from eight to eighty feet and were shipped all
over the country.
The Hook & Hastings organ factory was by far the largest industry in Weston, MA.
The huge wooden building (above) stood on Viles Street, just north of
the railroad tracks, from the late 1880s until it was demolished in
1936. The company's organs ranged in size from eight to eighty feet and
were shipped all over the country.
About Andrew Shenton
St. Peter's Music Director Andrew Shenton was born in England. His
first professional music training was at The Royal College of Music in
London, where he studied under a scholarship from The Royal College of
Organists. While at the RCM he read for a B.Mus. degree at London
University and was an organ scholar at St. Paul's Cathedral. In 1991
Andrew Shenton moved to the US to study for a Master's degree at the
Institute for Sacred Music, Worship and the Arts at Yale University and
then for a Ph.D. in musicology at Harvard University. He currently
serves on the faculty of Boston University.
Recently he has given
recitals in such venues as King's College, Cambridge, Westminster
Abbey, St. Paul's Cathedral, London, St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue
(New York debut), and Washington National Cathedral. He has toured
extensively in Europe and the US as a conductor, recitalist and
clinician, and his two solo organ recordings have received
international acclaim.
For additional information, please call the church office at 781-891-3200 or visit www.stpetersweston.org.
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Contact St. Peter's Church
320 Boston Post Road, Weston, MA 02493 | www.stpetersweston.org | 781-891-3200
(Click on any name that is underlined to send an email.)
Rector: Stephen Voysey (891-3200)
Assistant Rector: Hall Kirkham (891-3200)
Parish Secretary: Mercer Riis, (891-3200)
Choirs: Adult Choir:Andrew Shenton, (891-3200); Junior Choir: Kristen Dirmeier
Music: Andrew Shenton, (891-3200)
Members of the Vestry:
Janice Corley (891-3236), Senior Warden; Marshall Bartlett, Junior Warden; Chris Phaneuf, Treasurer; Richard Batchelder, Clerk; Members: Carolyn Ellis, John Jacobs, Tom Keery, Ann Lombard, Marty Rodgers, Anne Ruggles, Keith Ward
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