Sacred Music at United Church
United Church on the Green, UCC, New Haven, CT, Open and Affirming, All Seekers Welcome, Connecticut United Church of Christ, New Haven Association
Music is an integral part of worship at United Church and an important element of the congregation's outreach to the greater New Haven community. The gracefully proportioned 1815 meeting house provides a superb acoustical and visual setting for music in worship and in concert and houses a superb 3-manual mechanical-action pipe organ, two grand pianos, and a single-manual Italian-style harpsichord.


United Church Choir
The United Church Choir is a twenty-five voice choir with a core of professional singers performing a wide variety of choral music from the Renaissance to the present day. In addition to singing for the church's regular Sunday worship services, the choir presents major works with orchestral accompaniment in several concerts each year. In recent years the choir has performed the complete Christmas Oratorio by J. S. Bach, masses by Mozart, Haydn, Dvorak and Saint-Saëns, Requiems by Mozart, Brahms and Duruflé, the Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms, Chichester Psalms by Bernstein, and the complete Handel Messiah.

Membership in the choir is open to all who enjoy singing. Rehearsals are at United Church on Thursday at 7:30pm. Contact Caesar Storlazzi through the Church Office for more information.


Handbell Choir
The Handbell Choir plays a 4-octave set of English Handbells. The choir plays for worship services at both United and Center Churches, and plays occasional concerts throughout the community. Membership is open to the greater New Haven community. Basic music reading ability is necessary. Rehearsals are at United Church on Tuesday at 5:30pm. Contact Caesar Storlazzi through the Church Office for more information.

United Church Music Calendar
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The Specification of the Hillebrand/Moore Organ
David Moore began building organs in his own company in 1973, after learning the organ building art in the workshop of Charles Fisk in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Since that time he and his co-workers have built twenty-five new organs and restored more than ten older instruments. His instruments always use mechanical key action and are notable for their finely-crafted casework. From the beginning all pipework has been [ more ]


Meeting House
Corner of Temple & Elm Streets
New Haven, Connecticut
Worship: Sundays at 10:30 AM
Communion: First Sunday of each Month
   Parish House
323 Temple Street
New Haven, CT 06514
(203) 787-4195
office@newlights.org
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