rocking out ,18th century style

OK, so it turns out that organs are for more than a little "Love Lifted Me" on Sunday Morning and some 7th inning stretching at the ball park. This is some serious complex stuff, and we were at the epicenter of the pipe organ universe tonight! ( who even knew there was such a thing as a pipe organ universe??) We were invited to the Inaugural Concert of the giant new "old" organ at Christ Episcopal Church in downtown Rochester .

There were people from all over the world at this concert , all fired up about this. I was hanging out with the Lithuanian Ambassador to the United States, and by hanging out, I mean under the same roof in a very large room, but still , Jonas and I are tight. ( not a clue where Lithuania is...) There was a young lady in front of me writing like mad in her pipe organ journal in Chinese! Lots of Germans, guess they are big on organs.

The Craighead-Saunders organ is an exact copy of a 1776 organ that is , I guess, in Lithuania. So, it's part music program, and part history of music program. Some tall bearded German told us all about it, strong accent, so really all I got is that this is the only one in North America like this . The music that we heard was as close as they can get to what music sounded like in 1776. Which if you think about it is very cool, hearing things just as George and Martha ,kicked back with some ale , listened to. It was a very enjoyable night.