Music and Architecture combine at United Church on the Green to create an artistic experience unique to New Haven audiences. The gracefully proportioned 1815 meeting house provides a superb acoustical and visual setting for music in worship and in concert. It houses a newly-renovated 3-manual mechanical-action pipe organ, three grand pianos, and a single-manual Italian-style harpsichord.

United Church is pleased to continue sharing the joy of great music with New Haven school children through the Kid's Concert Connection.

Ample parking near the meeting house is available in the lot behind the United Church parish house at the corner of Temple and Wall, in the Yale lot behind Hendrie Hall (entrance off Temple Street) and on the street.

Mark Brombaugh is Director of Music and Organist at United Church on the Green. A graduate of Oberlin College and Yale University, he has held church positions in several states in which he directed multiple choirs. Prior to coming to New Haven in 1992 he taught organ, harpsichord and church music at Westminster Choir College (Princeton, NJ) and at the Universities of Illinois and Oregon. Dr. Brombaugh is well-known as an organ and harpsichord recitalist and clinician throughout the United States and is past national secretary of The Organ Historical Society.

The United Church Choir is a twenty-five voice choir with a core of professional singers performing a wide variety of choral music from the Renaissance to the present day. In addition to singing for the church's regular Sunday worship services, the choir presents major works in several concerts each year with orchestral accompaniment by musicians drawn from the New Haven Symphony and Orchestra New England. In recent years the choir has performed the complete Christmas Oratorio by J. S. Bach, masses by Mozart, Haydn and Saint-Saëns, the Requiem by Mozart, the Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms, Chichester Psalms by Bernstein, and the complete Handel Messiah.

The Handbell Choir plays a 4-octave set of English Handbells. The choir plays for worship services at both United and Center Churches, and plays occasional concerts throughout the community.

The Kids' Concert Connection (KCC), United Church's exciting music outreach project, begins its sixth season offering programs to New Haven's children. Through this project children in grades 3-6 experience a wide variety of music programs in the historic setting of United's meeting house. Mark Brombaugh, Director of Music, and other assisting musicians, offer richly varied programs of music in an interactive environment. The children learn about the pipe organ and are treated to glimpses of the mechanism and pipes inside the organ.

Harriett Milnes, Music Coordinator for the New Haven Public Schools, works closely with the United staff to bring New Haven students to these presentations.

The tracker-action pipe organ at United Church was built by Hermann Hillebrand and Sons of Hannover, Germany, in 1967, and renovated by A. David Moore, Inc., of North Pomfret, Vermont, in 1999. The dedication brochure describes David Moore's work. The organ was rededicated during Sunday morning worship on September 26, 1999. United's Director of Music, Dr. Mark Brombaugh, inaugurated it in recital that afternoon at 4:00 p.m. The picture gallery shows the new console, key action and much of the pipework.

David Moore began building organs in his own company in 1973, after learning the organ building art in the workshop of Charles Fisk in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Since that time he and his co-workers have built twenty-five new organs and restored more than ten older instruments. His instruments always use mechanical key action and are notable for their finely-crafted casework. From the beginning all pipework has been built in the North Pomfret, Vermont, shop. A higher than usual proportion of pipes are made of wood, and throughout the organs emphasis is placed on use of traditional woods and metals, eschewing the use of plastics and aluminum, which do not have proven durability. The artistic lineage of his organs stems from his deep understanding of nineteenth-century New England organs, as well as from the influence of his teacher, Charles Fisk.

David Moore’s co-workers in this project were Thomas Bowen, who was deeply involved in all stages of the work, Donald Carbino, David Laro, Brendan Moore and Thad Stamps. Maria Zengion assisted with the final tonal finishing.

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