I loved what Calgary Philharmonic did recently to promote a November Rush Hour Concert, which included the Saint-Saens Organ Symphony, at the Jack Singer Concert Hall. The poster was good too! (Click on the picture to see it in full.)…
December 31st this year will mark the 100th Anniversary of the outdoor organ in San Diego where Carol Williams is Civic Organist. A festive programme has been planned, including a composition by Carol to show off the newly-installed Centennial Tuba…
Purists might shudder at the new vogue for including LED fairylights in organ rebuilds, but I think they are very much in the tradition of the confident Victorian organ builder, determined to uphold civic pride by including every gizmo going. …
Stable Girls are expected to turn out morning and evening, in all weathers, to perform repetitive tasks for dismal amounts of money – sounds familiar? This winter I’ve discovered a whole untapped aspect of my wardrobe, perfect for winter organ…
Great importance is attached to the fact that both Gustav Holst and Ralph Vaughan Williams played regularly on the Thaxted Lincoln organ, and this was one of the selling points for its recent restoration. All very worthy of course, but…
Organ lessons can sometimes be like doctor’s appointments – you have your allotted time, and leave with half a dozen questions still hanging in your head. When Neil Cockburn, Head of Organ Studies at Mount Royal University Conservatory in Calgary,…
This month’s pin-up is the wonderfully frilly Hildebrandt Organ at St Wenzel, Naumburg, Germany. Many thanks to Andrew Benson-Wilson for sending me this picture, after he played the organ on a trip earlier this year. Andrew told me “Bach and…
I’ve attended some memorable workshops given by Dan Moult. He is excellent on practice and performance psychology, and I now try and stick to his insistence on total discipline right from the start of learning a piece – because his…
Here’s a woman after my own heart – retired music teacher Alison Malcolm has installed an 1881 Father Willis (bought for £500 in 1995) in a custom built garden shed, at her home near Salisbury, England. Planning permission was…
I am building up a big picture library, and I thought some of them should get an airing, rather than lurk unseen on my hard drive. So this month’s calendar girl is the gorgeous Mander organ at St Andrew, Holborn,…
Up till now my interviews have almost exclusively been with organists living and working in the UK – so I though you might enjoy an interview with a young South African organist. Jon Nisperos and I have been exchanging emails…
I try to control the trainspotter* tendencies in my personality, but I do like taking pictures of organ mirrors (wait for my fully-illustrated coffee table book Organ Mirrors of the World, Part 1 – it’s going to be a wow) because they…
It’s been a long day at Summer School – and we went to hear the splendid Martin Schmeding play at St Paul’s Cathedral too this evening – so just a short post tonight, with some pictures of fun organ stops…
Yesterday I showed you this pipe at Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, but I wasn’t quite sure what it was. Eric Shepherd (who maintains the organ) has the answer: The Pedal pipe that you show is the Sub Bass 32. It…
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