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- Halsey set to become LSO and LSC chorus director
Job post will involve coordinating all choral work for the orchestra and chorus - Gerre Edward Hancock (1934-2012)
Gerre Hancock, one of America’s mosthighly acclaimed concert organists and choral directors, passed away peacefullyon January 21st, surrounded by his family, in Austin, Texas. - British Composer awards announced
- £1.5m rescue bid for Chapel Royal Choir
A new Choral Foundation has been set up to secure the musical future of the Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace. - London gains another US organ
St.Bartholomew-the-Great Priory in London’s West Smithfield is to announce a multi-million pound fundraising initiative which will among other projects bring a second American-built organ to the capital.
Contents for Choir & Organ
The new Klais organ in the Royal Opera House, Muscat
OBITUARY: Heinz Wunderlich - Hamburg’s St Jacobi organist was a direct link to the late romantic German school.
Editorial
As I write, all around me are the motifs of death and new life. Though their leaves died in autumn, trees and plants now transform the landscape; green fields are flecked with white fleece; and the church is retelling the 2,000-year-old Easter story. Death (of whatever kind) need not trigger despair, but can be the seedbed for hope and resolve to germinate, from which an irrepressible life-force simply has to break out.
Coventry Cathedral is a living example of this spirit. Beside the rubble of the building destroyed in the 1940 bombing was built a new cathedral. However, it was not in the building itself that resurrection lay, but in the decision to dedicate the cathedral’s work to peacemaking and reconciliation...
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