{"id":748,"date":"2015-02-14T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/?page_id=748"},"modified":"2025-12-29T07:44:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T12:44:04","slug":"music-at-st-johns-%e2%80%a2-la-musica-en-st-johns","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/?page_id=748","title":{"rendered":"Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n<!--\n\n.prisna-gwt-align-left {\n\ttext-align: left !important;\n}\n.prisna-gwt-align-right {\n\ttext-align: right !important;\n}\n\n\n.prisna-gwt-flags-container {\n\tlist-style: none !important;\n\tmargin: 0 !important;\n\tpadding: 0 !important;\n\tborder: none !important;\n\tclear: both !important;\n}\n.prisna-gwt-flag-container {\n\tlist-style: none !important;\n\tdisplay: inline-block;\n\tmargin: 0 2px 0 0 !important;\n\tpadding: 0 !important;\n\tborder: none !important;\n}\n.prisna-gwt-flag-container a {\n\tdisplay: inline-block;\n\tmargin: 0 !important;\n\tpadding: 0 !important;\n\tborder: none !important;\n\tbackground-repeat: no-repeat !important;\n\tbackground-image: url(https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-website-translator\/images\/all.png) !important;\n\twidth: 22px !important;\n\theight: 16px !important;\n}\n.prisna-gwt-language-en a { background-position: 0px 0px !important; 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Guest musicians often enhance the service music with the sounds of winds, piano, strings, handbells, tympani, and brass.<\/p>\n<p>Music for the 11:30am Spanish-language service is provided by a guitarist, with congregational hymns selected from <i>El Himnario<\/i> and <i>Flor y Canto.<\/i><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Instruments<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>We are blessed with a magnificent pipe organ, designed and built in 1957 (and rebuilt in 1989) by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_McManis\">Charles W. McManis.\u00a0 <\/a>St. John&#8217;s also owns a Mason &amp; Hamlin concert grand piano (in our worship space), a Yamaha grand (in the Library), a small endowment fund to support guest musicians and music purchases, and an extensive library of choral and instrumental music.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/?page_id=7751\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen to organ builder Charles W. McManis playing the McManis Organ at St. John&#8217;s in October 2000.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/organ-brochure-1991.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more about the McManis Organ in a brochure published in 1991.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Give to the St. John&#8217;s Music Fund<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/checkout.square.site\/merchant\/J9V3NNMHH2SD7\/checkout\/ZBJR5FSDMPXLWRTF2RIEJGHV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a> or click the image below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/checkout.square.site\/merchant\/J9V3NNMHH2SD7\/checkout\/ZBJR5FSDMPXLWRTF2RIEJGHV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-15230 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Music-Fund-600x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Music-Fund-600x375.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Music-Fund-250x156.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Music-Fund-480x300.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Music-Fund-640x400.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Music-Fund.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Musicians<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><b>Henry Church (guitar)<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>Henry Church is from Watertown, Connecticut. He had public school education and was a music student of Mr. Pettinichi. Henry continued on to the university of Hartford where he earned his bachelors of music degree in applied classical guitar. he has taught music for many years in Litchfield county prep schools including a 20 year stint at westover school with Bob havery. Henry has been the director of Spanish music at St. John&#8217;s since 2017.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15123\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DSC_0226-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DSC_0226-scaled.jpeg 1707w, https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DSC_0226-400x600.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DSC_0226-683x1024.jpeg 683w, https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DSC_0226-1024x1536.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DSC_0226-1365x2048.jpeg 1365w, https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DSC_0226-250x375.jpeg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1707px) 100vw, 1707px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><b>Robert Havery (organ, piano, choir director)<br \/>\n<\/b><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; padding: 3px 3px 3px 20px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ghYTCUDQ5WZCotmvSV9Pw.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"300\" \/><\/h3>\n<p>Bob was the Organist and Choirmaster at St. John&#8217;s from 1969 to 1986, and again from 1996 until his retirement in 2015. Since then he has come back to play regularly at our services, usually the first and fourth Sundays of each month. He holds Bachelor and Master degrees from Juilliard, and has played numerous recitals in Connecticut, New York, Canada and England. In 2020, Bob retired after a 52-year career of teaching music and celebrating the arts at Westover School in Middlebury. He hoped his legacy will be &#8220;that the arts are intrinsic to the life of a complete human being.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/k5s5VI39iH4?feature=shared\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch the video &#8220;Bob Havery: A Lifetime of Music at Westover School.&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/playlist?list=PL4yBfnwCau1Tc8aVyom2ytQBOG20nL0q-&amp;feature=shared\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Open the YouTube playlist &#8220;New Perspectives on Beloved Hymns&#8221; featuring Bob Havery at the McManis Organ at St. John&#8217;s Church.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><b>Steven Minkler (piano, organ, bass)<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7129 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Minkler-480x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Minkler-480x300.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Minkler-480x300-250x156.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><br \/>\nSteve has been part of the Music Ministry at St. John&#8217;s since the mid-1990s, playing occasionally for both the English and Spanish services, and now twice per month at the English service. Steve served as Music Coordinator from September 2015 until March 2020, when the COVID pandemic forced worship services into an online format. During his tenure as Music Coordinator, he introduced the concept of a rotating schedule of musicians with different styles and instrumentations. Beside himself, these included organists Bob Havery, Daniel Scifo, and Scott Miller; guitarist Henry Church; percussionist Brian Ladden; a rebooted Adult Choir, and a four- to six-piece Jazz Ensemble which he launched with his daughter Rosemary.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Concerts<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>St. John\u2019s is a magnificent acoustical space which is used as a public concert venue throughout the year. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/?page_id=4622\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click or tap here<\/a> for a list of some of the concerts held at St. John&#8217;s since the year 2015.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Choir<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Choir Sundays are back at St. John&#8217;s!! The adult choir is returning under the direction of organist Robert Havery and soprano soloist Larissa Davidowitz once per month at the 9:30am Sunday service. For more information, or to join the Choir, please call the church office at 203-754-3116.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #800000;\">St. John&#8217;s YouTube Music Channel<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCw8xcYWSgy3XZAyUJK6dzAQ\/playlists?view=50&amp;sort=dd&amp;shelf_id=4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click or tap here<\/a> to enter the YouTube channel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music Music is an integral and important part worship at St. John\u2019s. \u00a0The 9:30am English-language service is with organ and piano. \u00a0Three or four congregational hymns are sung from the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2533,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-748","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15329,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/748\/revisions\/15329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}