Our practice sessions on the organ at St Etheldreda’s Chapel come with multiple Heath & Safety warnings. NOT SUITABLE FOR TALL OR LARGE PLAYERS says our information pack firmly, and by the time you’ve negotiated a tiny and perilous spiral…
Nothing gets church organists going much more than a discussion of hymn playing – a cue for despairing anecdotes about unmusical congregations, and even more unmusical clergy. Simon Williams kept us (reasonably) on track this morning on a Church Music…
The Corporation of the City of London commissioned an inspired gift for HM The Queen for her Diamond Jubilee this year – an organ, which is temporarily installed in The Mansion House, the home of the Lord Mayor of London*. …
Seventy-seven organists go quiet as they digest their timetables for the week. The course caters for organists at all levels, with classes for everyone from total beginners to diploma. Tomorrow it all starts in earnest, when we will scatter to…
Anne Marsden Thomas is the Head of the RCO Academy Organ School, co-ordinating the activities of a team of teachers and the studies of around 300 organ students. In 1990 she was responsible for the National Learn the Organ Year,…
Click below to find out more about some of our RCO Summer Course tutors. There are interviews with Gerdi, Neil, Simon and Roger, music from Frederick, and write-ups of previous workshops from Gerard and Daniel. There’s also an interview with…
The Lady Organist was proud to be the guest blog at the RCO Academy Summer Course for Organists last year, Monday 29th July to Saturday 3rd August. Six days of classes and concerts, playing organs of every size and date,…
Take Note is the blog of Sheet Music Plus. Click here for a recent post by Zachariah Friesen on concert etiquette, which I particularly enjoyed. Good advice for youngsters coming into the music profession – and a few reminders for…
On Saturday a group of intrepid cyclists set themselves the challenge of delivering the last organ pipe required for the Royal Festival Hall organ rebuild in London, England, by bicycle, all the way from Harrison & Harrison’s HQ in Durham,…
The Royal School of Church Music (RSCM) has published an excellent listing of organ music for manuals only, for organists who have no pedals or have not yet mastered the pedals. It includes relatively simple music from John Alcock and…
Christmas comes early for Benjamin Nicholas as he gets his hands on the new Dobson organ at Merton College, Oxford.
Catherine Ennis takes up her post as President of the Royal College of Organists in the UK in its 150th anniversary year. This is highly appropriate, as she was one of the guiding lights behind the evolution of the RCO…
The installation of the new Dobson organ at Merton College, Oxford, is underway, and you can follow it on Facebook and Twitter. Benjamin Nicholas, Organist and Director of Music at Merton, and Merton’s Chaplain, Simon Jones, have been tweeting pictures,…
A mark of a civilised community is the recognition of the concept of copyright, says the Music Publishers Association, and they have published a code of practice explaining when the use of the photocopier is fair, and when it is…
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