Comfort at One
During trying times, music stills our souls and provides a healing grace. Throughout the spring, Comfort at One presents performances that are inspired by the Gandhi quote: “In the midst of darkness, light persists.” These concerts include light-inspired Bach cantatas, Pipes at One, choral meditations from The Choir of Trinity Wall Street, new performances from Downtown Voices, the Trinity Youth Chorus, and St. Paul’s Chapel Choir, and new virtual content on Fridays from our extended family of artists.
Each Monday-Friday at 1pm, we share new and archived performances on Facebook and Twitter and will post the most recent videos below. For past performances, browse the list below or visit our music video portal. We hope these performances help you find a daily haven of peace and comfort.
Today's Comfort at One Performance
Today's Comfort at One features a Pipes at One recital by Trinity's Associate Organist, Janet Yieh, and cellist Benjamin Larsen. This performance includes works by J.S. Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, Josef Rheinberger, Camille Saint-Saëns, and Robert A. Hobby.
Recent Comfort at One Performances
Watch More Music VideosComfort at One: By the Waters of Babylon
Featuring The Choir of Trinity Wall Street, today’s Comfort at One brings a survey of spirituals curated and directed by Stanley Thurston as a part of our By the Waters of Babylon Festival that honored the range of Black music in America and its inextinguishable power to transcend and transform.
Comfort at One: Sandbox Percussion
Today we feature our most popular video from 2020: an amazing virtual performance from our principal percussionists in NOVUS NY—Sandbox Percussion. The score for Jason Treuting's extremes leaves a lot up to the performers—it calls for a high sound, a low sound, a sound that keeps a steady pulse, and some kind of pitched instrument. This version is a re-imagination of the piece, with the percussionists using sounds from items they found at home. Join us again on July 15, when we begin to present the world premiere virtual performances of select movements of Andy Akiho’s Seven Pillars by Sandbox Percussion here at Comfort at One.
Comfort at One: Bach's BWV 122 and BWV 127
For our Comfort at One concert today, The Choir of Trinity Wall Street and Trinity Baroque Orchestra, led by Julian Wachner, present Das neugeborne Kindelein, BWV 122 and Herr Jesu Christ, wahr’ Mensch und Gott, BWV 127. This 2015 performance features Jonathan Woody, Sherezade Panthaki, Luthien Brackett, and Owen McIntosh.
Past Performances
Comfort at One: Janet Yieh and Benjamin Larsen
June 17, 2021
Today's Comfort at One features a Pipes at One recital by Trinity's Associate Organist, Janet Yieh, and cellist Benjamin Larsen. This performance includes works by J.S. Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, Josef Rheinberger, Camille Saint-Saëns, and Robert A. Hobby.
Comfort at One: By the Waters of Babylon
June 16, 2021
Featuring The Choir of Trinity Wall Street, today’s Comfort at One brings a survey of spirituals curated and directed by Stanley Thurston as a part of our By the Waters of Babylon Festival that honored the range of Black music in America and its inextinguishable power to transcend and transform.
Comfort at One: Sandbox Percussion
June 15, 2021
The score for Jason Treuting's extremes leaves a lot up to the performers—it calls for a high sound, a low sound, a sound that keeps a steady pulse, and some kind of pitched instrument. Check out our most popular video from 2020: an amazing virtual performance from our principal percussionists in NOVUS NY—Sandbox Percussion.
Comfort at One: Bach's BWV 122 and BWV 127
June 14, 2021
For our Comfort at One concert today, The Choir of Trinity Wall Street and Trinity Baroque Orchestra, led by Julian Wachner, present Das neugeborne Kindelein, BWV 122 and Herr Jesu Christ, wahr’ Mensch und Gott, BWV 127.
Comfort at One: Mary Lou Williams
June 11, 2021
Today’s soul-stirring Comfort at One is performed by the beautiful mezzo-soprano Pamela Terry from The Choir of Trinity Wall Street in collaboration with virtuoso pianist Aaron Diehl. Enjoy this stunning set of songs by the inspirational First Lady of Jazz, Mary Lou Williams.
Comfort at One: Organist Renée Anne Louprette
June 10, 2021
Today’s Comfort at One features a Pipes at One recital by former Trinity organist Renée Anne Louprette from Rutgers University and Bard College. In this concert, she performs pieces by Vivaldi, Bach, Duron, Correa de Arauxo, and Marais.
Comfort at One: City Called Heaven
June 9, 2021
Guest soloist and stunning Met Opera soprano Aundi Marie Moore sings the spiritual "City Called Heaven," followed by an improvisation from Director of Music Julian Wachner at the piano.
Comfort at One: Aaron Diehl Trio
June 8, 2021
For today’s Comfort at One we bring you a brilliant jazz performance from a 2015 Concert at One. The Aaron Diehl Trio features the outstanding musicians Paul Sikivie, bass; Lawrence Leathers, drums; and the incredible Aaron Diehl, piano, with a surprise guest artist that you will want to stick around for!
Comfort at One: Bach and Telemann
June 7, 2021
Today we continue our Comfort at One encore concerts with Bach performances. Here, The Choir of Trinity Wall Street and Trinity Baroque Orchestra bring us Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen, BWV 11, paired with Georg Philipp Telemann’s Concerto in D for 3 Trumpets, Timpani and Strings, TWV 54:D4.
Comfort at One: Bach's Partita No. 2 in C Minor
June 4, 2021
Start your weekend in beauty with today's stunning Comfort at One performed by the brilliant Avi Stein. Trinity's associate organist and renowned harpsichordist performs Bach's Partita No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 826.