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Choir & Organ is the leading independent magazine for all professionals and amateurs in the choral and organ worlds – whether you are an organist, choral director or singer, organ builder, keen listener, or work in publishing or the record industry, Choir & Organ is a must-read wherever you live and work.

Every two months our expert contributors bring you beautifully illustrated features on newly built and restored organs, insights into the lives and views of leading organists, choral directors and composers, profiles of pioneering and well-established choirs, and topical coverage of new research, festivals and exhibitions. In keeping with our commitment to music at the cutting edge, we commission a new work from a young composer in every issue, making the score freely available for download and performance.

Our international news and previews, with breaking stories, key awards and forthcoming premieres, combine with reviews of the latest CDs, DVDs and sheet music, and listings of recitals, festivals and courses, to keep you up to date with events and developments around the world.

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Winner of Choir & Organ Composition Competition 2010
£950,000 lottery award for Royal Festival Hall organ
George Benjamin and Karl Jenkins honoured by Queen
London's 18th-century organs
An all-day bus trip in June brings three 18th-century organs closer
Volcano cancels organ course

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Contents for Choir & Organ

The new Flentrop organ in Christ Church Chelsea

OBITUARY: DAVID SANGER
CHRIST CHURCH CHELSEA: The enigmatic personality of Flentrop’s new organ for London.
BARBER AND SCHUMAN: Introducing lesser-known choral gems by the two US composers.
CIRENCESTER: Harrison & Harrison’s new instrument for the parish church seamlessly combines old and new.
HYPERION RECORDS TURNS 30: Top artists feature on the record label’s 400 choral and organ discs.
SALOMONS WELTE ORGAN: A unique pre-WW1 instrument with rolls of Lemare performing.
COLLEGIUM VOCALE GENT: The Belgian renaissance and baroque specialists clock up 40.
WW2 ORGANS: The City of London lost 26 organs in the Blitz; what replaced them?
ST CHAD’S, SHREWSBURY: Renewing the tradition of Anglican worship at a local level.
BUILDING BLOCK: Sophisticated organ technology: blessing or bane? asks Ian Bell
PLANT LIFE – NEWS FROM THE FACTORY FLOOR: Rieger at the Musikverein, Juget-Sinclair restorations in Quebec, and progress on Taylor & Boody’s new organ for Grace Church.
NEW MUSIC Hymn Portraits by David Ibbett.
RAISING STANDARDS David Hill on VW’s Dona nobis pacem.
TUTORIAL David Goode tackles ensemble playing in Handel’s Concerto op.4 no.4.
PRACTICE ROOM Malcolm Archer’s Vincent Woodstock.

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Editorial

Some years ago I was at a church conference when a speaker opened his address with, ‘The Church in Britain today is dead.’ True, the Church has been suffering dwindling congregations and deservedly negative media attention on acrimonious battlegrounds for some time. Its public face is certainly down – but out? I don’t think so, at least not yet.

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