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Brewer in a D is a fun setting - very Elgarian - and the Mendelssohn is likewise a good sing and a good listen. Bristol is only up the road - you should go!

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... absolutely... and the Vierne will be a good romp too! Didn't they have a new 32ft reed when Exeter was rebuilt? If so, you'll have a chance to hear that in this piece for sure!

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According to their website Michael Stoodart from Newcastle Cathedral succeeds Timothy Noon at Auckland Cathedral, New Zealand.

 

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Follow-up to my post #46:
Kris Thomsett is now Acting DoM at Newcastle, following Michael Stoddart's departure to Auckland, New Zealand (Holy Trnity Cathedral).

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There has been quite a clear-out (or should it be exodus?) from Newcastle Cathedral in recent years. Scott Farrell and James Norrey to Rochester and now the departure of Michael Stoddart. Perhaps there's unfavourable news regarding the restoration of the pipe organ?

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... absolutely... and the Vierne will be a good romp too! Didn't they have a new 32ft reed when Exeter was rebuilt? If so, you'll have a chance to hear that in this piece for sure!

 

The new 32ft. reed (Contra Trombone, an extension of the existing Trombone) arrived at the previous rebuild, in 1999-2000. It is a useful stop and, despite being half-length in the 32ft. octave, is a suitable foundation to the tutti. Low B is an odd, slightly unpleasant note, otherwise the stop is well worth having.

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I know very little, other than what one can read on the Blogspot post and the comments on it.
Rumour has it (and I can't confirm this) that something like this was mentioned in the Job Spec for the new DoM.

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Rumour has it (and I can't confirm this) that something like this was mentioned in the Job Spec for the new DoM.

 

I remember seeing the Job Spec for the DoM and someone pointing out to me a tacit implication that the organ loft personnel were being reduced from three to two. Typically such reorganisations happen due to personalities (which doesn't seem to be the case here) or money. I wonder if, in due course, they will appoint an organ scholar.

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If it's not presumptuous to mention it, after thirteen years at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, St. John's, Newfoundland, I have been appointed to Christchurch Cathedral, Fredericton, New Brunswick. It's a fine, cruciform church, partly by Butterfield, modelled on Snettisham Church, Norfolk, and has a very nice four-manual Casavant.

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If it's not presumptuous to mention it, after thirteen years at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, St. John's, Newfoundland, I have been appointed to Christchurch Cathedral, Fredericton, New Brunswick. It's a fine, cruciform church, partly by Butterfield, modelled on Snettisham Church, Norfolk, and has a very nice four-manual Casavant.

 

And someone else that we both know, I think, David — Ian Sadler — has recently been appointed to St James' Cathedral, Toronto.

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Congrats: in a way, you’re going home to East Anglia, David !

 

Confusingly, the Cathedral website shows a 3-manual (acoustic guitar superimposed), whereas an interweb search provides good shots of the instrument: http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMP86A_Christ_Church_Cathedral_Organ_Fredericton_NB.

 

I’m sure, once you have your feet firmly under the bench, you’ll provide us here with some kind of organ tour.

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If it's not presumptuous to mention it, after thirteen years at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, St. John's, Newfoundland, I have been appointed to Christchurch Cathedral, Fredericton, New Brunswick. It's a fine, cruciform church, partly by Butterfield, modelled on Snettisham Church, Norfolk, and has a very nice four-manual Casavant.

 

Congratulations. Enjoy the new challenges.

 

Every Blessing

 

Tony

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