Recently added articles from Musical Opinion:
Letters
Feb 01, 2009; ... Exit Organs? It's really a breath of fresh air to read The Organ magazine, particularly now for its balanced approach towards informing us about electronic as well as pipe instruments. There are many of us who are not privileged to play good pipe organs often, as well as being many ...
Editorial
Feb 01, 2009; ... Shortly before this edition was due to go to the printers Professor David Baker announced that he wished to resign as Editor for personal reasons. We are sorry that he has to leave the magazine and are most grateful to him for the period as Editor and the many years prior to that when he was a ...
Canadian Wins the 6th Tokyo Organ Competition
Feb 01, 2009; ... Canadian Michael Unger was presented with first prize at the 2008 International Organ Competition in Musashino, Tokyo. Second prize was awarded to Jonathan William Moyer of the USA, and third to Park Joon-Ho, ...
RCCO Centennial
Feb 01, 2009; ... The Royal Canadian College of Organists (RCCO), one of Canada's oldest music associations, celebrates its 100th anniversary from October 19 2008 to July 2, 2009. Founded in 1909 as the Canadian Guild of Organists, the RCCO has since become a nation-wide interdenominational community of ...
Dobson Chosen by University of Tampa
Feb 01, 2009; ... Dobson Pipe Organ Builders of Lake City Iowa, have been selected to build a mechanical action pipe organ for the University of Tampa. The new instrument will have three manuals and pedal, 47 voices, 56 ranks, and 3,184 pipes, and will be located in Sykes Chapel, a non-denominational spiritual ...
Grammy Nomination for Cameron Carpenter
Feb 01, 2009; ... Cameron Carpenter's first CD/DVD/SACD, Revolutionary, released by Telare International in September, has been nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestra) ...
London Organ Day
Feb 01, 2009; ... London Organ Day 2009 takes place at St Peter's Church, 119 Eaton Square on Saturday March 14. The programme includes a master class and a recital both by Johannes Geffert, and several other ...
Cambridge Prepares for 800th Anniversary
Feb 01, 2009; ... From humble beginnings to its current standing as one of the world's leading universities, the University of Cambridge celebrates 800 years as a seat of learning in 2009. Cambridge will mark its anniversary next year with an ambitious year-long programme of events in the city, across the ...
Sing!
Feb 01, 2009; ... Mark the anniversaries of Handel, Haydn, Mendelssohn and Purcell by rehearsing and performing their music in one day with Joseph Cullen (Director, London Symphony Chorus and Chorus ...
'Get Ahead' Inspiration Day for Young Organists
Feb 01, 2009; ... Takes place Saturday 21 February, Guildford. For organists aged ...
Harry Christophers and the Sixteen
Feb 01, 2009; ... 2009 will be a year of significant musical anniversaries. Not only those of Handel, Purcell and James MacMillan, but also the thirtieth anniversary of the award -winning ensemble The Sixteen and its founder, conductor Harry Christophers. To celebrate this extraordinary year ...
'Organ-ise' puts Organ at Heart of Community
Feb 01, 2009; ... Worcester Cathedral's new four-manual 53-stop Quire organ will be the centre of attention for 250 children in March as part of a massive educational event, 'Organ-ise'. Based around the design, construction and commissioning of the new organ, the fourday event from 3-6 March will see ...
Sheer Hard Work and Intellect Gordon Phillips (1908-1991)
Feb 01, 2009; ... "I feel that to be a really good musician, one must work ten hours a day and think music for the other fourteen. The organ is the hardest of all instruments - it requires sheer hard work and intellect." The words of the distinguished organist, Gordon Phillips, offer a timely reminder of ...
Discover Westminster Abbey
Feb 01, 2009; ... May 2, Westminster Abbey, London An exclusive RCO event offering privileged access to this much-loved venue for coronations and other great occasions of state. The day includes private tours of the Abbey and the Cheneygates Room, followed by atten- dance at part of choir practice and at ...
60 Years of Organ Building
Feb 01, 2009; ... (Part 4) An advertisement by John Wellingham for an organ builder to start at Dartington College of Art, Devon, caught my eye, and having arrived at the difficult decision to leave South Africa I replied to the advert and obtained an interview. This of course meant flying from ...
Forty Years On
Feb 01, 2009; ... A reappraisal In the April 1968 edition of The Organ, there is an article by me entitled 'The Organ in the Hostel of the Resurrection, Leeds'. I have recently revisited the article, as former students of the Hostel, closed in 1976, are compiling a website about its life and ...
Edwin H Lemare (1865-1934)
Feb 01, 2009; ... A reappraisal of a legendary name The 75th anniversary of the death of Edwin H. Lemare falls in 2009. His name is mainly associated with transcriptions of orchestral works, especially the music of Wagner, and also with his Andantino in D flat for organ, the melody of which was used in ...
Historic Organs in Minas Gerais - Brazil: The instruments in Diamantina and Córregos
Feb 01, 2009; ... The instruments in Diamantina and Córregos The Gold Rush era in the Capitania das Minas Gerais during the 17th and 18th centuries stimulated extensive cultural activity in that particular region of colonial Brazil. Music was an important activity in several historic cities, being ...
Noises Off...?
Feb 01, 2009; ... Church organists, amateur and professional, have both the privilege and the responsibility of performing regularly in public more than most other solo instrumentalists. But there's an obvious downside; very rarely does the luxury of concert performance silence grace their efforts. Since becoming ...
Pacific Symphony's New William J Gillespie Concert Organ
Feb 01, 2009; ... 'It's incredible that a firm like CB Fisk still exists in the world today. It's like a time warp' said Carl St Clair, Music Director of California's Pacific Symphony, about the makers of a brand new 30-ton, four stories tall, and one-of-a-kind and three -years -in-the -making pipe organ. Named ...