wolsey
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If you are reading this, please note that my views are addressed to the members of this forum only, and if you are intruding on a private conversation you only have yourself to blame if you hear something that might cause you offence.
I have no axe to grind on this issue, but with respect, writing anything on an internet message board or community area is the same as publishing it in a newspaper or magazine. If, heaven forbid, anything defamatory were written, than both Mander Organs and the author of the comment could find themselves involved in a court case if a formal complaint were made.
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Two organists this year:
MVO: Roger Judd, formerly Assistant, St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle (retired July 2008);
MBE: Dr Harry Grindle, for services to music in Northern Ireland
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Possibly John Ellis - Ocumuse as was published his piece based on A Coventry Carol. I have a copy somewhere, it's quite effective.
In which case, it's available from Fagus who took on much of the Oecumuse catalogue three years ago.
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I have been using the post-Christmas 'down-time' to redouble my efforts to investigate and eventually buy a practice instrument as soon as possible. My shortlist comprises the Eminent DCS 326 from Cathedral Organs Ltd and the Ahlborn Praeludium II from Classical Organs Ltd. I will try and play examples of these over the next few weeks, however, does anyone have first-hand experience of either or both of these two models?
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There's a fantasia on The Coventry Carol (by Andrew Fletcher?) in one of the Kevin Mayhew Christmas Anthologies, although I suspect it is out of print as my copy came to me second-hand and the title cannot be found on the KM website...
A search of Andrew Fletcher's catalogue of compositions for this title proves fruitless. Another suggestion as to composer will solve the mystery.
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iPlayer will not be compatible with Macs for some (unspecified) time, which is ironic given its name implies an Apple connection cf. iPod, iLife, iWork, iTouch, iPhone etc.
The BBC today [18 December] announced it has developed a version of its popular iPlayer that works with Mac and Linux computers, as well as PCs.
The two systems, which until now could only stream programmes from the iPlayer, will now be able to handle downloads as well.
The BBC has worked with Adobe to develop the new version, known as BBC iPlayer Desktop. It has been written using Adobe's AIR technology which aims to make it possible to create applications that can be downloaded to your computer, rather than embedded in browser web pages.
Those who want to try the new version can download a trial version from the Labs section of the iPlayer site. A finished version is likely to be released in February 2009, says the BBC.
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Surely St Augustine's is Pearson's finest building
One could argue that case for Truro Cathedral...
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I know there's a passacaglia for organ but I've never heard it played. Does anybody know it? Is it hard? And did he write anything else for organ?
The late Alan Harverson used to feature it in recitals. I've also heard the orchestral version in electrifying productions of 'Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk' by both ENO and the Royal Opera.
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St Sulpice pedal board only goes to F - was this [Cortège et Litanie] written for Dupre's American tours?
According to Dupré's Recollections, in 1922 he "composes Cortège et Litanie, one of five pieces of incidental music for a dramatic production, giving it its final form as one of four piano pieces. Subsequently he transcribes it for organ solo, then for organ and orchestra." Its first performance (as an organ solo) was given at the John Wanamaker Store in September 1923.
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...he was one of very few conductors to have FRCO amongst their achievements.
The following (among others) might beg to differ:
Sir Richard Armstrong
Stephen Barlow
Benjamin Bayl
Steuart Bedford
Harry Bicket
Ivor Bolton
Paul Brough
Nicholas Cleobury
Laurence Cummings
Meredith Davies
Richard Farnes
Roy Goodman
David Hill
Simon Joly
Nicholas Kok
Stephen Layton
Ian C Shaw
Paul Steinitz
David Willcocks
Sir Andrew Davis (ARCO)
Sir Charles Groves (ARCO)
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My son went to Hampton School which has an R&D two-manual organ in the gallery of the assembly hall.
Though an unloved and unlovely instrument, it begat three Oxbridge organ scholars (though in truth that probably had a lot more to do with the teacher, Julie Ainscough).
Justadad will be interested to know that Hampton School's progeny of Oxbridge organ scholars is greater than he realises. From the 1970s was Andrew Prior, and from the early 90s, Jeremy Rouse.
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I would therefore be most grateful if any of you who know about organ in state schools could let me know about them.
David Shuker
Editor, BIOS Reporter
I have to report the loss of a state school organ in the 1990s. Harrow County School (as it was known then) possessed a two-manual Rothwell NPOR: D04472; their works were less than half a mile away. This was the school attended by Michael Portillo, Clive Anderson, the late Geoffrey Perkins and others, and which featured in his moving documentary almost a fortnight ago on BBC2 about a truly talented musician - a school friend of Michael's - who committed suicide shortly before his sixteenth birthday. The organ was played regularly by Kenneth Waller, a classics and Russian teacher who was featured in the programme - and an FRCO, no less. The head of music from 1959 - 1976, Arthur Haley (1916-2004) also held that diploma.
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I will also be following this thread closely as I'm interested to find out whether to by the Tharp CD or the Patel DVD. The Tharp has been a long time coming though; I remember reading about his then projected Demessieux disc over two years ago.
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I can report that the Royal Festival Hall organ was heard - albeit briefly and with very restrained registration - in the Barry Gray Centenary Concert (Thunderbirds are GO!) which took place at that venue last night. It was used in a performance of the theme music for the 1969 Gerry Anderson series The Secret Service.
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Did any one hear today's Choral Evensong from Canterbury Cathedral? As ever, the Choir were in top form, proving they are right up among the very best of Cathedral Choirs, all credit to David Flood, and the new Asssistant Organist John Robinson was in marvellous form too. [...]
The broadscast is repeated this sunday.
R
It is, but is available of course at any time for the next seven days on BBC iPlayer.
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In all honesty, for good congregational singing you cannot beat Dom Gregory Murray's New People's Mass. The harmony is good, it doesn't try to be clever or "modern" and it has really taken over from the pre-ASB best congregational setting which was Martin Shaw's Anglican Folk mass.
Both these settings, of course, can be found in the New English Hymnal supplement New English Praise, numbers 694 and 695 - assuming you meant Murray's A People's Mass.
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David Goode and Daniel Chorzempa have given recitals from memory at the Royal Festival Hall.
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I've just looked up the programme for the "Organ Show":
...... and BBC1's EastEnders (theme by David Lowe)
This, surely, is incorrect. The EastEnders theme tune was composed by Simon May
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κἀγὼ δέ σοι λέγω ὅτι σὺ εἶ πέτρος, καὶ ἐπὶ ταύτῃ τῇ πέτρᾳ οἰκοδομήσω μου τὴν ἐκκλησίαν, καὶ πύλαι ᾅδου οὐ κατισχύσουσιν αὐτῆς.
Seeing this brings back memories of Thrasymachus, and Aristophanes and Plato set texts at school...
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Here is the appropriate extract from Mr Mander's note....
Slightly more controversially perhaps, the Dome Tubas and Chorus Reeds are being replaced with new pipes. The Chorus Reeds were remodelled Tuba pipes and sounded too much like Tubas and the Tubas themselves would not respond to a slight brightening which they really needed. The old pipes are being preserved so that if somebody in the future decides replacing them was a mistake, the change can easily be reversed. The new stops should be installed during the first half of August.
My understanding from someone who has heard the new Tubas in the building is that they *are* an improvement, therefore the decision to replace the old pipes appears to have been justified.
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Does anybody play this piece (should it be Finale?)? I learnt it about 20 years ago and recently dug it out as I was looking for something "different" to finish with. Has it been recorded? Do we know the year(s) it was written? The marking is allegro maestoso - what metronome mark is recommended?
First heard the Final played by GTB at Westminster Cathedral in 1971, and learned it many years later. It's dedicated to, and is a gentle dig at, "Monsieur Lefebure-Wely", and is really tongue-in-cheek. It can therefore be approached in the same spirit as one of M Lefebure-Wely's Sorties.
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Per the September ISM monthly magazine received today, Chimes third music shop is at
Royal Academy of Music, York Gate Building, Marylebone Road, London NW1
So I see in my ISM Music Journal which arrived today as well; I stand corrected. Academy Chimes Music opened just over two years ago, but doesn't feature on the Chimes web site.
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Barbican Music Shop in Chiswell Street is run by the same people as Chimes in Kensington and both do 10% discount for ISM members. The advantage of the Barbican is that they don't use the antiquated (and time wasting) method of writing down what you have bought in note books - one for each publisher - that Kensington uses. They also have a third branch somewhere very near the RAM but I have't tried that. Staff are very helpful in Barbican and Kensington.
This is a little out of date. What was once known as 'Kensington Music Shop' is now Kensington Chimes Music, and Barbican Chimes Music is the name of the shop formerly known as 'Barbican Music Shop'. Chimes, which was situated in Marylebone High Street, closed in 2000.
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Oh dear! It seems to have slipped everyone's notice that Simon Preston celebrated his 70th birthday on 4 August. He therefore deserves thunderous celebratory applause at tomorrow's Prom concert (broadcast live on BBC4) which includes the Glagolitic Mass, and in his own solo Prom on the afternoon of Sunday 24 August.
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You weren't, but a 'private conversation' was in fact taking place in a public area.