Classics at First

10/11/2026

Remember to reserve this Sunday date and time in your calendar. https://alessandrofonseca.com/

Mark it in your calendar now! Alessandro plays with passion and amazing expressiveness. Do note that this program is on a SUNDAY.

09/30/2026

Mark it in your calendar now! Alessandro plays with passion and amazing expressiveness. Do note that this program is on a SUNDAY.

09/24/2026

Tonight's Program at Classics at First!

09/23/2026

The pipe organ produces four family of tone: strings, flutes, reeds, and principals. The first three are imitative of orchestral instruments. In the 1920s-1930s larger cities with municipal auditoriums installed large symphonic pipe organs. Concert organists of the times, such as Edwin H. Lemare were famous for transcribing large symphonic works for the organ, and traveled around presenting programs to standing room only crowds at these venues. Dr. Knupp is doing that very same thing tomorrow evening. FPC's Casavant organ's orchestral abilities will be shown off in this program of themes from well known movies. This will be a very enjoyable program complete with special lighting effects! Please plan to attend and bring a guest(s) with you.

09/16/2026

A week away!

08/21/2026

Join us for our first concert of the fall. This will be fun!

05/10/2026

Thursday! A world class artist in your hometown!!

04/27/2026

Make every effort to attend what will be a once in a lifetime opportunity to hear a world class organist here in Greenwood. Ken Cowan has had a long and distinguished career as an international concert organist. He is highly sought out by chapters of the American Guild of Organists as a featured recitalist.

His program will include both music written for the organ and transcriptions of orchestral works. Composers whose works will be featured include Bach, Widor, Saint-Saens, Guilmant, and Vierne, and others.

We are fortunate in Greenwood to have a pipe organ like the Casavant at FPC, the largest instrument between Memphis and Jackson, and Little Rock and Tuscaloosa, which is capable of playing music literature well from a wide range of musical periods and styles, and in a room that is acoustically splendid for music.

Ken is currently Professor of Organ at Rice University in Houston, TX. He has also served in that role at Princeton University. He holds degrees from the Yale School of Music where he completed his masters in organ performance, and the Curtis Institute of Music where is bachelor degree in organ performance was earned.

04/07/2026

A major performer coming to Mississippi. Mark your calendars now!

Ken Cowan’s biography:

https://www.google.com/search?q=ken+cowan+bio&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari

02/19/2026

There seems to be some confusion regarding a concert that was a possibility for Februrary, but didnt work out. Ezekiel Andrew McCall is not appearing tonight, Feb 19. We are hoping something can be worked out for the Fall of 2026.