Join us for a free pipe organ performance by Dr. Jay Fluellen, exploring the sacred music of Duke Ellington with interludes inspired by the music history of Glen Foerd. Florence Foerderer Tonner, the last private owner of Glen Foerd (1915 – 1971), left behind material collections that include sheet music in a variety of genres, record albums by Duke Ellington, and paper rolls to automatically play Jazz-Age dance modes like the foxtrot on the pipe organ.
Listen to our restored 1902 Haskell Pipe Organ while strolling through the historic gilded-age mansion, or find a seat in the first-floor drawing room and second-floor art gallery. Enjoy a drink from our cash bar, and purchase a tarot reading from Zeta Tarot. This concert is part of a city-wide performance series in April – Philly Celebrates Jazz.
The performance will begin at 7:00 pm.
For event inquiries, please contact Alice at 215-632-5330 x13 / athompson@glenfoerd.org.
Dr. Jay Fluellen is a Philadelphia-born musician, composer, college professor, educator, accompanist, pianist, singer, and organist/choir director. He has a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Music Composition from Temple University. Fluellen has been commissioned by various performers and institutions, including the Mann Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia’s LiveConnections, Teya Sepinuck and Theater of Witness, the Bucks County Choral Society, the Philadelphia Jazz Project, Orchestra 2001, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Network for New Music, Relâche and Philadelphia’s Singing City Choir, among others.
This performance and the restoration of Glen Foerd’s Pipe Organ was made possible by a generous grant from the Wyncote Foundation.