Dame Gillian Weir
Do we like pictures of organists in gorgeous frocks and pretty shoes gracing the organ steps? Of course we do – I know Dame Gillian Weir has resisted, rightly, being styled as a lady organist, but the organ world desperately…
The art of concentration with Daniel Moult
Many of the RCO Academy classes are held in St Giles Cripplegate church, which boasts no fewer than three organs. This class was on a rainy London evening earlier this week, topic: concentration, tutor: the excellent Daniel Moult. Daniel was…
Plainchant at Ampleforth
I confess I had a very woolly understanding of plainchant – until last weekend that is, when the RCO gave us a day of Discovering Plainchant at Ampleforth Abbey, in the North Yorkshire hills (near where I grew up). Plainchant…
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