Steinway Sundays

Steinway Sunday is moving to Livestream for the final performance of Season II

Ticket holders for previously postponed performances will receive an email with an invitation to the Livestream event link;
others may purchase tickets below using our PayPal link.
PLEASE INDICATE YOUR EMAIL WHEN ORDERING.

Information coming soon on Season III!

Steinway Sundays provide a glorious and joyous event series to support our programs and ministries. From its beginning, our church has supported vibrant musical performance. Generations of church members and church friends have sung in our choir for our Sunday services and for other special community events under the expert leadership of Wallace Van Lier, Paul Homer (who retired after 50 years in July 2019), and now Andrew Van Varick. The Sunday service anthems encompass classical, contemporary, spiritual, and popular faith-inspired selections. Accompaniment and instrumental selections are performed on a sensational Skinner organ. Community recitals are regularly heard in our Parlor.

Central Park’s hosting of Krista Seddon’s second season of Steinway Sundays continues and broadens this rich musical tradition and commitment. In Season I, scores of people were introduced in our beautiful Parlor to this unique series of piano jazz performance and detailed historic and personal commentary. Krista was a great friend of, and collaborator with, Marian McPartland, whose Piano Jazz series was the longest running series on National Public Radio.

Season II, Impressionism in Jazz, promises to be another thrilling musical opportunity with seven performance/lecture events by Krista resuming October 18, 2020 at 2:00PM. Central Park is proud to further integrate with the Buffalo and WNY community through this series, as we also host each week a rich and deep collection of community helping activities. Clara’s Closet, housed in our church basement for over 20 years, has been the primary source of free clothing for new immigrants, especially those joining our community through local refugee resettlement agencies. Many groups supportive of people with substance abuse problems meet here. Our church is a welcoming, inclusive congregation. In addition to Steinway Sundays, we hope you will participate in our other church programs, as well as Sunday church services at 10:30 AM.

Krista Seddon
Pianist, Composer, Lecturer
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Central Park has the honor of hosting Steinway artist, Krista Seddon, an accomplished pianist, composer, and lecturer. Her current lecture performance tour, Impressionism In Jazz, explores the dynamic cross-pollination among jazz and modern classical artists George Gershwin, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Duke Ellington, Marian McPartland, Miles Davis, Bill Evans, and others. The resulting combustion of sound and inspiration changed the world of music forever and reverberates to this day.

Our church is a welcoming, inclusive congregation. In addition to Steinway Sundays, we hope you will come to our Sunday church services at 10:30 am. Please visit our Facebook page and YouTube channel to check out other happenings at Central Park Church.

Please join us for Steinway Sundays, Season II

Impressionism in Jazz

Ticket cost per concert is $35 each.
Package of 7 tickets is $30 each for a total purchase price of $210. More than 1 ticket can be used at a time.

Purchase Tickets HERE

Important: Please indicate the concert(s) you will be attending in the "Add a note" area in PayPal. Thank you!

Tickets may be purchased the day of the concert prior to 2:00 PM or in advance by PayPal or mail.

Checks payable to Central Park UMC may be mailed to Central Park UMC, 216 Beard Ave, Buffalo, NY 14214. Please provide a note indicating the concert dates you plan to attend and write "Steinway Sunday" in the memo field. Also include the email address you'd like your ZOOM invitation sent to. Thank you!!

Steinway Sunday Concerts

Coming Soon via Livestream
The State Department Tours: Jazz & Diplomacy