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Some works don't just sit on the shelf—they reshape you, and live in your fingers and heart long after you’ve left the bench or the keyboard. Samuel Barber's Toccata Festiva, written in 1960 for the inauguration of the Philadelphia Orchestra's new organ, was one of the works that first showed Jeffrey Schindler why music mattered, why virtuosity could be joyful for its own sake, and why a musician might spend a lifetime pursuing and experiencing that emotion.

Barber  - a formidable organist himself - wrote it to unleash everything the instrument could do: the organ as a virtuoso soloist, sparring with and spiraling around the orchestra, moving in a single movement from blazing arpeggios to meditative introspection to breathtaking pedal cadenza to thunderous organ and orchestra triumph. It's the kind of work that demands complete musical and technical mastery—fingers that fly, feet that dance,  the whole body and mind in service to music and sound.

Now Jeffrey takes the bench to perform it again, a full-circle moment, stepping back into a work that first opened a door - once he removes his mittens and snowshoes.

Concert details:

Friday, May 2, 2026 — 7:30 PM
Pasadena Presbyterian Church, 585 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101

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Some works don't just sit on the shelf—they reshape you, and live in your fingers and heart long after you’ve left the bench or the keyboard. Samuel Barber's Toccata Festiva, written in 1960 for the inauguration of the Philadelphia Orchestra's new organ, was one of the works that first showed Jeffrey Schindler why music mattered, why virtuosity could be joyful for its own sake, and why a musician might spend a lifetime pursuing and experiencing that emotion.

Barber  - a formidable organist himself - wrote it to unleash everything the instrument could do: the organ as a virtuoso soloist, sparring with and spiraling around the orchestra, moving in a single movement from blazing arpeggios to meditative introspection to breathtaking pedal cadenza to thunderous organ and orchestra triumph. It's the kind of work that demands complete musical and technical mastery—fingers that fly, feet that dance,  the whole body and mind in service to music and sound.

Now Jeffrey takes the bench to perform it again, a full-circle moment, stepping back into a work that first opened a door - once he removes his mittens and snowshoes.

Concert details:

Friday, May 2, 2026 — 7:30 PM
Pasadena Presbyterian Church, 585 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101

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Some works don't just sit on the shelf—they reshape you, and live in your fingers and heart long after you’ve left the bench or the keyboard. Samuel Barber's Toccata Festiva, written in 1960 for the inauguration of the Philadelphia Orchestra's new organ, was one of the works that first showed Jeffrey Schindler why music mattered, why virtuosity could be joyful for its own sake, and why a musician might spend a lifetime pursuing and experiencing that emotion.

Barber  - a formidable organist himself - wrote it to unleash everything the instrument could do: the organ as a virtuoso soloist, sparring with and spiraling around the orchestra, moving in a single movement from blazing arpeggios to meditative introspection to breathtaking pedal cadenza to thunderous organ and orchestra triumph. It's the kind of work that demands complete musical and technical mastery—fingers that fly, feet that dance,  the whole body and mind in service to music and sound.

Now Jeffrey takes the bench to perform it again, a full-circle moment, stepping back into a work that first opened a door - once he removes his mittens and snowshoes.

Concert details:

Friday, May 2, 2026 — 7:30 PM
Pasadena Presbyterian Church, 585 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101

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Some works don't just sit on the shelf—they reshape you, and live in your fingers and heart long after you’ve left the bench or the keyboard. Samuel Barber's Toccata Festiva, written in 1960 for the inauguration of the Philadelphia Orchestra's new organ, was one of the works that first showed Jeffrey Schindler why music mattered, why virtuosity could be joyful for its own sake, and why a musician might spend a lifetime pursuing and experiencing that emotion.

Barber  - a formidable organist himself - wrote it to unleash everything the instrument could do: the organ as a virtuoso soloist, sparring with and spiraling around the orchestra, moving in a single movement from blazing arpeggios to meditative introspection to breathtaking pedal cadenza to thunderous organ and orchestra triumph. It's the kind of work that demands complete musical and technical mastery—fingers that fly, feet that dance,  the whole body and mind in service to music and sound.

Now Jeffrey takes the bench to perform it again, a full-circle moment, stepping back into a work that first opened a door - once he removes his mittens and snowshoes.

Concert details:

Friday, May 2, 2026 — 7:30 PM
Pasadena Presbyterian Church, 585 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101

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