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- New hope for Festival Hall organ
Fundraising for the completion of London's Royal Festival Hall organ is under way - 52nd Grammy Award winners
- British Composer Awards
- Charity concert
Raising funds for Pancreatic Cancer UK - Spitalfields organ contract signed
1735 Richard Bridge organ to be restored by William Drake
Contents for Choir & Organ
The case-front of the Hill organ in St Nicholas, Great Yarmouth, was designed by Stephen Dykes Bower for the 1960 rebuild by Compton. Photo: Andrew Hayden
- COVER STORY: William Drake’s reconstruction of a 1760 George England organ in Dulwich, London.
- WOMEN IN ORGAN BUILDING
Marcussen & Søn president Claudia Zachariassen concludes our series. - GALLERY
Kenneth Tickell’s new organ for the historic Lincoln’s Inn Chapel. - PETER HURFORD
How the St Albans IOF founder struggled to overcome the effects of a stroke. - TEMPERAMENT
A guide to temperament and relevant repertoire over the centuries. - OPUS ANGLICANUM
Five a cappella men and a narrator open the door on Gregorian chant. - VIEWPOINT
Can critiques of new organs have the same fearless bite as restaurant reviews? - ST DUNSTAN’S, FLEET STREET
David Wells’s organ restoration retains the sounds of a 1947 rebuild. - GUANTÁNAMO
Prisoners of the US detention centre supply poems for a new choral work by Ed Hughes. - RAISING STANDARDS
David Hill launches a series on choral classics with Bach’s St John Passion. - NORFOLK ORGANS
An instrument ‘of excellent pedigree’ attracted international soloists to Great Yarmouth.
Editorial
Hurrah! Southbank Centre has at last announced that it will be launching an appeal in September to raise funds for the completion of the restoration and reinstallation of the organ in the Royal Festival Hall (page 4). A Heritage Lottery Funding application for nearly £1m has successfully passed the first round and faces the competitive second round in March. Nonetheless...
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