Monthly Archives: July 2014

Coffee House Concerts

 

 

 

 

Organ Recitals 2014

Wednesdays at 6:30

 

30 July

John Scott Whiteley – Bach’s Orgelbüchlein & not…

 

13 August

Maximillian Elliott – Cathedral Organists of Yesteryear

 

27 August

Gordon Stewart, John Pemberton & John Scott Whiteley

In Memoriam Alan Spedding, MBE

 

10 September

John Scott Whiteley – Music associated with World War I

 

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The Coffee House, Everingham

YO42 4JD

Free admission & champagne!   Each recital will last c40 minutes

 

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Goetze & Gwynn launch new website

Organ builders Goetze & Gwynn have launched a new website at http://www.goetzegwynn.co.uk , with the same features
as the old website, but with downloadable reports, soundfiles and blogs. The website includes
pictures and details of most of the 100 projects they have completed in the third of a century they
have been in business, making and restoring classical pipe organs.

In that time they have contributed to the revival of the historic English classical organ, restoring
important organs like St Botolph Aldgate London ca1704, St Helen Bishopsgate London 1743, and
St James Bermondsey London 1829, many with the substantial financial assistance of the Heritage
Lottery Fund. They have just completed the restoration of the 1821 H.C.Lincon organ at Thaxted in
Essex, and are starting the partial restoration of the 1969 Grant, Degens and Bradbeer organ at New
College Oxford.

Of the 100 projects, 65 are restorations of historic organs and most of these have a picture, a short
history and specifications. There are historical monographs of individual organs and restoration
reports available for free download.

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Choir Director wanted at Leathley, North Yorkshire

A new conductor is needed for the benefice choir based at Leathley Church. The choir only performs at major festivals, and rehearses for five or six weeks beforehand each time.

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Mentioned in Dispatches

Good to read about the Halifax Organ Academy in the latest issue of the Institute of British Organ Building Newsletter (issue 74, June 2o14) about the ‘growing number of organ academies which are being established around the country, with the aim of providing teaching and experience of the instrument for anybody who is interested’. Thus writes Chris Batchelor, current President of the IBO and an accomplished layer and senior administrator himself.  ‘The emergence of more people who are passionate about the organ has to be good for all of us’, he continues.

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Sam Barber

Sam Barber will be giving an organ and trombone recital at Halifax Minster on Thursday, 10 July, starting at 1.00pm. Sam has won a scholarship to  study trombone at the Guildhall School of Music in London, starting in September, 2014. His programme at Halifax includes works by Bach, Handel, Holst and Proulx.

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