mrbouffant

LOL we did this news in a couple of other threads!

Ah! How exciting! Nice to see an appointment where 'the usual suspects' aren't just shifting about on the merry-go-round...

Google tells me he's been there a while, plus he let me play the organ when I was passing back in 2004!

.. and since Percy loved the tuba so much, surely there must be at least one example in the Whitlock oeuvre to also demonstrate this ..

hopefully this is a fate which will not befall the new organ....

Don't think so. The mods might be able to help, or if they give me the password for the backend database, I can do it by hand for you

I remember him. He came to play my organ when he was a student. Wiped all the general pistons, the cheeky so and so. I wish him all the best at Westminster, and hope nobody comes along and resets his settings the day before he gives a recital !!

I'm reminded of an article which appeared in OR a couple of years back of an enthusiastic lady amateur organist (with lots of ££, obviously) who had a three manual organ commissioned for her "music room". I think Thos. Trotter gave the opening recital!

How long is a recital programme anyway? It could vary between 30-35 mins (a lunchtime slot, perhaps) to about 90 mins (evening recital with interval)... What do you have in mind, Andy? /edit: thinking about it some more, you are missing out on some key repertoire if you want a programme which covers most bases e.g. a Mendelssohn Sonata, some high-Romantic stuff e.g. Reger Introduktion und Passacaglia, Karg-Elert Chorale Improvisations, some neo-Classical works e.g a Hindy Sonata Much of this might depend on the target instrument and indeed, what gets you going as far as learning repertoire is concerned...

It's a zero, not an 'O', so search for E01317...

Harsh. We were only trying to help. Sadly URLs are either completely right or they are useless, so the need for correctness is paramount...

The missing www. prefix in the first posted link caused the error, I think...

I have no particular axe to grind, I am just going from what I read on Wikipedia.. Subject closed.

You are right MM, in terms of holocaust, but we are talking about Holocaust which is a historically-specific term, I believe...

I believe the term 'The Holocaust' is used specifically to refer to the horrendous outcome of the Nazi's 'Final Solution of the Jewish Question.' Other Nazi atrocities, whilst also heinous and despicable, are not generally included under that specific term....

OK, so I'm learning this Suite at the moment and find it all a bit strange. The notes aren't that hard but I guess I'm failing to capture the spirit of it. Anyone else play it here who can offer some guidance? Yes, I know I should pay to go and get an organ lesson but I prefer to wait until I have most of it under the fingers.... Thanks!

Whatever the final analysis, I would make an early request for at least three open diapasons on the Great....

I started an innocent thread on another forum nearly 3 years ago (the forum had been down for a rebuild and I happened to be first on when it came back) and it is still running, over 100,000 posts and a 1,000,000 views later! My only claim to fame in the cyberworld!

Wasn't he the bloke who Whitlock said was "the naughty boy at any party" or something like that... ?

No, they do not send specialists to graded exams. This can work to the candidate's advantage.

When I sat ARCO paperwork about 3 years ago, I was the oldest there by about 15 years! It was full of pale, spotty, snotty scarf-clad younglings who clearly needed to get out in the sun more and, indeed, needed to get some perspective! I trust if I ever get to FRCO paperwork, things will look a bit different!

It doesn't because most of us out here in the real world do our own registration changes!

I suspect these expensive models are fairly bespoke, i.e. high quality LCD with wide viewing angle/contrast ratios, solid-state storage (so no disks to spin = better battery life) and an embedded OS which is more resilient than normal consumer Windows. I have used similar devices in manufacturing situations and they are very fit for purpose.

That's quite cheap compared to: http://www.estandmusic.com/

Yes, this already exists. I went to a concert in Bournemouth nearly two years ago (Jeff Wayne's of War of the Worlds) and the orchestra/conductor were using them. Sky has been showing the filmed version of their Wembley concert on Sky Movies over Xmas and you can see them quite clearly in the footage... Effectively they are just thin tablet PCs running a score viewer - Acrobat Reader would do just fine I would think! The trick would be to make sure they are stable on the music stand and not prone to fall on the floor and break /edit: There is one commercial version here: http://www.hammacher.com/publish/73577.asp