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Francesca Massey leaving Rochester on December 31st to pursue a freelance career.
Jeremy Lloyd (currently ADoM) to be Acting DoM from January 1st 2022.
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Jamie Rogers, currently Acting 2nd Assistant Organist, to be ADoM at Canterbury.
https://www.canterbury-cathedral.org/whats-on/news/2021/12/22/new-assistant-director-of-music-appointed/ -
1 hour ago, Martin Cooke said:
Thanks, DHM, and sorry about that. I have inserted the link in the original post but am reproducing it here. It's the Guards' Chapel, Wellington Barracks.
Got it. Thanks.
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Is there a link missing for the third installation?
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From the York & District Organists' Association:
SATURDAY 02 OCTOBER (19:30)“Francis Jackson at 104”Birthday Celebration ConcertThe York & District Organists’ Association is going to broadcast a concert on YouTube in honour of Dr Francis Jackson CBE (Master of the Music at York Minster, 1946-1982) at 19:30 on Saturday 02 October 2021. Just click on this direct link to watch the concert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka89o7lEwFgProgramme:The Goss-Radley Fanfare Performed by Benjamin Morris at York MinsterPraeludium in E Performed by Ben Horden at the Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of YorkScherzetto Pastorale Performed by Keith Wright at St Olave’s Church, YorkPavane from Seven Pieces Performed by Benjamin Morris at York MinsterExultet Performed by Christopher Strange at Peterborough CathedralCavatina for bassoon and organ Performed by Isabel Dowell and Geoffrey Coffin at St Chad’s Church, YorkImprovisation on a chant of John Goss Performed by John Scott Whiteley at the Coffee House, EveringhamScherzetto from Fifth Sonata Performed by Tim Harper at Ripon CathedralThe Owl Performed by James Sanderson and Josephine Peach at St Chad’s Church, YorkPrelude on an American Folk Hymn: Lonesome Valley Performed by Maximillian Elliott at St Olave’s Church, YorkMagnificat in G Performed by the choir of York Minster directed by Robert Sharpe Organ: Benjamin Morris -
Indeed he did. See here: https://mander-organs.com/magdalen-college-oxford/.
Also, It's £30k +VAT +transport (plus cost of re-installing wherever it ends up). -
This is being offered by the German firm of Ladach who specialise in re-homing unwanted organs...
https://www.gebrauchtorgel.eu/de/pfeifenorgeln/Mander-22-III-P -
12 hours ago, Vox Humana said:
Thank you. I stand corrected. Can it also cope with the depleted wind required for Harmonies?
I guess it almost certainly would - at least on some sample-sets, if not all.
I shall experiment later.... -
Vox Humana said:
"Now that's something you can't do with a toaster, or with The-System-That-Must-Not-Be-Named. "
If you mean turning the blower off, hearing the wind sag, and the pipes gradually ceasing to speak, that is something you definitely *can* do with "The-System-That-Must-Not-Be-Named". -
Direct quote from Sajid Javid's statement to the House of Commons this afternoon setting out changes from July 19th:“There will be ….. no restrictions on communal worship and singing.”Can't get much clearer than that, can it?
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Dr David Newsholme (currently Acting DoM since David Flood’s retirement) to be DoM at Canterbury.
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36 minutes ago, S_L said:
IOne could go further and ask how many Cathedral's have a DoM who isn't product of a Public School - or Oxbridge - or from an 'Ethnic Minority' but, perhaps I better not go there!!!!
Of the 6 DoMs I served under since 1970...
One had only "external" degrees (BMus & DMus);
One was not public-school educated, and had no degrees at all (but was the unanimous choice for the job);
One was neither public school nor Oxbridge. -
Various news media and Facebook friends have reported this weekend that congregational singing is now permitted (as of yesterday) in the German states of Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria, and in the US state and Diocese of Rhode Island.
The dam is beginning to break - at least in other places, if not yet here.
What do their scientists know, that ours don't? Or are their governments simply being less cautious and risk-averse than ours? -
Percy Whitlock's Organ Symphony in G Minor.
(See here for more info: http://www.musicweb-international.com/whitlock/organsymphony.htm)
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6 hours ago, Vox Humana said:
Why is the government treating amateur singers and professionals differently?
Presumably to safeguard the professionals' income, whereas "amateurs" have no income to lose.
There is no other logical explanation. -
Let's not forget that the current "Rule of 6" and its predecessors are GUIDANCE, not law.
Law means "must". Guidance means "should". This difference is made very clear in other documents from HMG. -
33 minutes ago, David Cynan Jones said:
Simon Johnson from St Paul's to Westminster Cathedral
Another former Rochester Organ Scholar made good. 😃
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Last Sunday I played "Recollection" (from New Music for Organ, Book 1) and "Pavilioned in Splendour" (from Festival Finales). Both albums from Kevin Mayhew.
Both very attractive pieces, and not overly difficult. -
43 minutes ago, Rowland Wateridge said:
I wondered whether Willis might figure! Hereford would be excellent, but somewhat larger than what it is replacing!
Bear in mind the organ won't only be used for leading services, but also for teaching, study and concerts.
To the best of our knowledge this will be the first installation of its kind in any religious building in Oxbridge. -
4 hours ago, Rowland Wateridge said:
Maybe in due course DHM will reveal which instrument(s) whose sounds it reproduces!
Not yet finally confirmed, but probably Hereford (Willis), Caen St Etienne (C-C), Haarlem St Bavo (Müller), Friesach (Eisenbarth)....
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2 hours ago, Rowland Wateridge said:
Only one, apparently. Emmanuel United Reformed Church, 1880 restored to original state with the addition of a pedal trombone in 1992 by Harrison & Harrison.
https://www.harrisonorgans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/CAMBRIDGE-URC-2020.pdf
Emmanual URC has recently closed, and the building was sold to Pembroke College.
I *think* I'm right in saying that Pembroke are retaining the organ, and using that space to rehearse their new girls choir.The Emmanuel congregation has merged with that of the church formerly known as St Columba's.
Over the last year the latter building has been completely gutted and rebuilt, and is now known as Downing Place URC.
There are now two joint DoMs (one from each former congregation), and the Minister is also an organist.
They are all very excited about the arrival of their new organ next week (using a system which I'm not allowed to mention here...). -
St Peter's Brighton. See here under "Organ":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Peter's_Church,_Brighton#:~:text=St Peter's has a large,and in Hove Town Hall. -
Perhaps a "Harmonics of..." like this one? https://www.npor.org.uk/NPORView.html?RI=N01917
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Franck Pièce Héroique
St. Elizabeth, Wroclaw (PL) :: Update
in The Organ
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A very Interesting project, and glad to hear of its successful completion.
The original specification looks very similar in size and stop nomenclature to Engler’s organ at Krzeszow (formerly Grüßau) built c.20 years earlier - a very fine instrument, familiar to some users of a certain software program. The differences between organs such as these and (for example) the Trost at Waltershausen, compared with those of Schnitger and G. Silbermann further north and west, are remarkable, and they deserve to be better-Known here.