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Autobiographical Recollections of Charles-Marie Widor

Autobiographical Recollections of Charles-Marie Widor

Autobiographical Recollections of Charles-Marie Widor Edited and translated by John R. Near Boydell and Brewer / University of Rochester Press, 2024 ISBN 9781648250866 / 298 pp / £85 (hard copy), £25 (ebook) Reviewed by Robert James Stove Brash to the nth degree will...

L’Orgue Baroque en Aragon

L’Orgue Baroque en Aragon

Jusepe Ximénez: Obra de Ileno de Premier Tono; Sacris Solemnis/Garcia Baylo (?), Pedro Pifant? (1473): Vexilla Regis/Andrés de sola: Registro alto de Primer Tono/Melchar Robledo: Domine Iesu Christe/Sebastián Aguillera de Heredia: Tiento grande de Cuarto Tono; La...

Registration organ competition IMOCG 2024 is open

Registration organ competition IMOCG 2024 is open

The third edition of the Dutch 'International Martini Organ Competition Groningen' (IMOCG) will take place in the summer of 2024, in the week of 28 July to 3 August in the Dutch town of Groningen. This time, the competition will feature three monumental organs. After...

In Memoriam Peter Dickinson

In Memoriam Peter Dickinson

Peter Dickinson died at the age of 88 on June 16, led a distinguished multifaceted career of over six decades as performer, academic, author and editor. His prolific writings and his compositional oeuvre in many genres radically espouse the postmodern aesthetic at the...

The International Kaija Saariaho Organ Composition Competition

The International Kaija Saariaho Organ Composition Competition

The International Kaija Saariaho Organ Composition Competition, organised to celebrate Helsinki Music Centre Concert Hall’s new Rieger organ that is to be finished in the autumn of 2023, received 98 participating compositions from all over the world. The jury, chaired...

National Schools Singing Programme Expansion

National Schools Singing Programme Expansion

The leading choral education programme in the United Kingdom expands to tackle declining engagement with music at state schools. Recently, the National Schools Singing Programme [NSSP], an ambitious music education initiative covering the majority of the UK’s Catholic...

Woman Composer Repertoire Day – Come and Sing

Woman Composer Repertoire Day – Come and Sing

The Royal School of Church Music (RSCM) and Society of Women Organists (SWO) are hosting a joint Come and Sing event, showcasing new music written by female composers, on Saturday July 15 at St Giles Cripplegate, London EC2Y 8DA. The workshop is led by Katherine...

New Director of Music appointed at Jesus College

New Director of Music appointed at Jesus College

Benjamin Sheen has accepted the post of Director of Music at Jesus College, Cambridge. He will join the College on 1 January 2023, succeeding Richard Pinel, who has been appointed Director of Music at St Mary’s Bourne Street in London. Ben currently holds the post of...

Bach and friends organ series

Bach and friends organ series

Details of Bach and Friends: The Orgelbüchlein Completed series presented by the Royal College of Organists and sponsored by Professor Christopher Wood. This will comprise the following ten events: Saturday 24 September 2022 Temple Church, 10am - ‘Laws and Canons’...

Visually Impaired Teenager Wins Prestigious Musical Scholarship

Visually Impaired Teenager Wins Prestigious Musical Scholarship

Sixteen year old Ivan Deb has won the first Aprahamian Scholarship for young organists which includes a brand new two-manuals-and-pedals home organ, on which he can practise. The Arabesque Trust, which set up the scholarship to help visually impaired young organists,...

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