Tiffany Series

The Tiffany Series offers opportunities to hear beautiful music and notable speakers while bathed in the light of the church’s eleven original Tiffany stained glass windows.

2010-2011 SERIES • SUNDAY AFTERNOONS

• WINTLEY PHIPPS IN CONCERT – September 26 at 3 p.m.
In a 30-year career singing spirituals, baritone Wintley Phipps has performed for every sitting American president since Ronald Reagan. His celebrated rendition of “Amazing Grace” — which he performed at the Inaugural Prayer Breakfast for President Barack Obama, as well as at Carnegie Hall — has been viewed on YouTube almost five million times.

A two-time Grammy Award nominee, Phipps has sung for former South African President Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Pope John Paul II, and the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as at the Billy Graham Crusades, and the Rosa Parks Birthday Celebration.

Phipps will also speak briefly about the U.S. Dream Academy, the national after-school program he founded to provide mentoring and tutoring to children whose parents are incarcerated. Baltimore’s Dream Academy Learning Center at Collington Square Elementary School was one of the organization’s earliest centers. It serves approximately 500 students in pre-Kindergarten through 8th grade.

General admission tickets: $15; students $5; children 10 and under: Free

• 80th ANNIVERSARY SKINNER ORGAN RECITAL – March 6, 2011 at 2 p.m.
Organists John Walker, Marvin Mills and Michael Britt will celebrate the birthday of Brown Memorial’s renowned 1931 Skinner organ. This event is part of the American Guild of Organists’ Baltimore Organ Weekend, celebrating the city’s three landmark instruments. Young organist Janet Yieh will also play.

• HAYDN’S CREATION WITH FREDERICK SWANN- May 22, 2011 at 3 p.m.
John Walker will conduct Brown Memorial’s Chancel Choir and Frederick Swann will serve as guest organist in a spectacular performance of Haydn’s great oratorio. A not-to-be-missed event! (The last time Frederick Swann joined John Walker and Brown Memorial’s Chancel Choir, the result was an unforgettable performance of Mendelssohn’s Elijah. See below for a review.)

“ELIJAH” PERFORMANCE AVAILABLE ON CD

Brown Memorial’s extraordinary recent performance of Mendelssohn’s “Elijah,” featuring the Chancel Choir and Frederick Swann as guest organist, with John Walker conducting, is available on CD. The 3-CD set—a perfect gift—is $15. To order your copy/copies, click on the “Buy Now” icon below.