New York Times review, August 20, 2010

Music That Rises Above the City's Roar

In the hours after the Sept. 11 terrorist attack, Patrick Allen, the organist at Grace Church near Union Square, decided to play for the people gathering in the church's pews, filling the silence with the music of Johann Sebastian Bach because, as Mr. Allen put it, "it was clear that this music was the medicine and food needed by those coming through the doors." Nearly nine years later, the Bach at Noon series continues — peaceful, meditative revivals.