Midday Pipes

Come Listen to Our Pipes!

This season's Midday Pipes organ series at First United Methodist Church of San Diego will be both in-person in the Sanctuary and online, live-streamed and available on YouTube.

All concerts will begin at 12:15 PM and can be accessed at fumcsd.org/watch-live or at First Church YouTube Channel on the second Wednesday of the month from September through June.  We invite you to enjoy this beautiful organ music played by distinguished musicians on the 108-rank, 4-manual Blackinton & Associates pipe organ, the largest in San Diego County. The series is sponsored by the First Church Cultural Events Committee, and each performance will be approximately 45 minutes long. 

 

SECOND WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH (9/14, 2022 - 6/14, 2023)
12:15 - 1 PM
JOIN US AT FIRST CHURCH OR WATCH LIVE HERE 

Each month you’ll have a chance to listen to a different organist play a 45-minute free organ concert. If you missed a concert, you can listen to past concerts  HERE

 September 14, 2022
Paul Rosas - Organist
Retired Organist, Los Altos United Methodist Church

T. Paul Rosas is an organist, professional accompanist and composer. He is the founder and organizer of Alzheimer's Benefit Concerts in the San Francisco Bay Area and has continued his fund raising with the help of the San Diego Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. These events featured many different organists as well as singers, instrumental musicians and composers.   He has also given lectures about the “Art of Accompanying” at the San Francisco National Convention and “Living with Pipe/Digital organs” at the Bakersfield Regional convention.   His articles “The Misadventures of a Touring Accompanist” has been featured in The American Organist.  While being an avid supporter of “fresh” music by local composers, he also loves to combine many different styles of music, new compositions and different performers to create unique and exciting musical events. Mr. Rosas has also created workshops for artists where he practiced organ music while the attendees created their own art painting and drawing.  At the end of several months, he then gave a concert featuring the music and the art that was created in the sessions. He retired from his position as Senior Organist for Los Altos United Methodist Church in 2017 and moved to San Diego to be closer to family. He has been having fun contributing to the music program at La Mesa First United Methodist Church and being a free lance musician in the San Diego area.  The program will feature “Small Honeysuckle” a brand new work inspired by the weaving patterns as depicted in The Handweavers Pattern Dictionary by Anne Dixon