Meghan Meloy Ness and Marvin Mills accompany the Opera Philadelphia Chorus on the organs, and Braden conducts. The pieces are interspersed with interviews telling the stories of each of the three pipe organs, each neighborhood church, and the importance of making and sharing beautiful music.

“These composers span different centuries, different cultures, different genders, and different world views, and these differences inform everything from their compositional style to the texts they chose to set,” Braden said. “Both a pipe organ and a chorus are a collection of individual voices and unique sounds, which are combined to create new colors, new musical ideas, and offer new ways to hear poetry. This program features three different pipe organs, found in three different Philadelphia churches. Each instrument, and each building, is unique, but each allows for music to fill its space, for poetry to be heard in new ways, for our minds and souls to stretch as we sing, listen, and observe.”

The program was filmed and edited by Rec.Today and recorded by Paul Vazquez of Digital Mission Audio Services. The program will stream for free, with closed captioning, on the Opera Philadelphia Channel from July 16, 2021, through July 16, 2022.