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  1. Thanks, Vox. Can we infer from this document that JSB disapproved of the proposal, or is the evidence inconclusive either way?
  2. Paul Morley

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    My most disconcerting experience as a pit musician took place whilst playing for a week at the Lyceum Theatre in Crewe (pre-restoration and the tidal wave of H&S legislation that has since engulfed us all). The bass player and I spent most of our non-playing time trying to prevent the water that was running down the pit walls from coming into contact with the mains socket into which his amplifier was plugged.
  3. Didn't JSB specify that one be should added to the Pedal division at Mulhausen?
  4. Paul Morley

    Cctv

    TANGENT ALERT When the theatre of the Liverpool Instutue for Performing Arts was created (within the superstructure of a school hall, of course), there was no room for a pit. Orchestra and conductor play in a room a couple of floors away. All communication between stage, audience and instrumetalists is achieved though audio visual links
  5. Do I detect a note of satisfaction (or even glee) in the destroyer's comments?
  6. I believe that there's wording in the legislation prescribing the the maximum performance time/length of the photocopied extract, and also a stipulation that the extract should not be make musical sense on its own (in other words, not a complete movement, however short).
  7. ...not to say a grossly over-inflated sense of his own importance. Does he really think that a parish organist having a bad day is as significant as an air traffic controller having a bad day? If, during my time as organist at a parish church with a strong musical tradition, someone who was preparing for ARCO had approached me with an offer to do some depping, I would have been delighted!!
  8. Probably not an unintended conseuqence c.1920.
  9. Gt Reeds on Ped is a particularly useful device on large romantic instruments where the 32/16/8 Pedal reed rank is only really usable with/against full organ.
  10. I'm sure that this was the real reason – despite the dodgy claims made by builders and consultants that there was artistic rationale behind the practice.
  11. At the church where I played last Sunday, the vicar informed the congregation that the common cup would not be withdrawn at next week's Eucharist, but that arrangements would be made so that communicants could receive either in one or both kinds, as they saw fit. She closed her remarks with the words, 'Friends, you are adults, and I intend to treat you as adults'.
  12. On my youth, I once played for four weddings at three different churches over the course of one Saturday. This being densely populated North Manchester, the distances between venues was not that great. However, thirty years on, I think that I'd be ill-advised to repeat the exercise using a bike as my means of transport.
  13. One could argue that by using the word 'concert' to describe an organ recital, the promoter or performer is demonstrating that s/he considers the organ to be an 'orchestra in a box'.
  14. ...a far better 'instrument' upon which to perform this piece than the RNCM organ lurking in the background, I would suggest.
  15. You can then play a transcription of Prelude de l'apres midi
  16. Many thanks for these, Ben.
  17. At least AJJ's and MSW's experiences were the result of a genuine accident. A PA operator once attempted to drown me out by playing a worship song CD through the sound system.
  18. ...suggest to anyone in business that advertising is immoral or unethical, and wait for the same hysterical laughter...
  19. Why should the existence of the site mentioned above, whatever its merits, deter individuals from posting on this (or any other) site?
  20. A quick Google reveals that most FDs in the States use either a family name or a location (as over here). However, a few are more shall we say 'interesting'. Here is a selection from the LA directory: the slightly cheesy Chapel of the Angels the rather B movie All Souls Mortuary the somewhat prosaic Affordable Burials & Cremations and the just plain alarming Crippen's
  21. Am I alone in thinking that this is an awful name?
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