August - very august
Concert on August 8th at 2.30pm
Win Martin's new CD!
Click here for competition details
Gothic Cases - Musings and Amusings
Breaking news! You can now buy the latest recording of the Christchurch Town Hall Rieger organ by Priory online here
- Concert Alert!
- Priory CD of Christchurch Rieger
- And a podcast
- Gothic Cases
- Organ photography competition
- Website wombling
1. Concert next Sunday, August 8th
A concert with a difference is promised this coming weekend! On Sunday August 8th at 2.30pm Christchurch Town Hall organ curator Martin Setchell will play Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, and paintings by Philip Trusttum will be projected during the performance. (The concert replaces that planned by Gordon Stewart, who had to postpone his concert for health reasons - we wish Gordon a speedy recovery). Those of you who saw and heard the results of this fruitful music and art collaboration in 2003 will recall the stunning and raw effect of the coupling of Mussorgsky's music with the images depicted by Trusttum. If interested in the background to this production, you can read more about that performance here. And as a bonus, concert goers will be the first to get the chance to buy Martin's new CD, Great Australasian Organ Series- VII.
2. New Priory CD: Martin Setchell on the Christchurch Town Hall organ
As I mentioned, the famous Priory label in the Uk have just released the seventh CD in the Great Australasian Organ Series, which just happens to be (oh happy coincidence!) the Rieger organ in our Christchurch Town Hall, played by Martin Setchell. The CD will be on sale at the concert next Sunday (2.30pm)
3. And a podcast!
Hans Petrovic interviewed Martin Setchell about his concert on August 8th and his new CD. You can listen to the podcast of the interview (with musical extracts) here
In his regular Musings and Amusings article, David Bridgeman-Sutton goes w-a-a-a-y back to the Gothic Era and looks at the styles of the time - and it includes the oldest working organ in the world, in Sion, Switzerland. (Did you ever wonder why the pipes don't fit the case properly?) Enjoy David's thoughtful and historic look at crenellations and Rhenish caps - among other intriguing features of these beautiful old organs. While still on the subject of David's wonderful articles, it's great to get useful feedback, such as that from Philippe d'Anchald (Paris) on the subject of the Barker Lever and Charles Spackman Barker. Click here for the latest footnotes (shouldn't that be feetnotes?) on this intriguing topic.
5. Golden Jubilee Calendar Photographic Competition.
The New Zealand Association of Organists is running a photography competition to celebrate its Jubilee year in 2011. Sorry, but this competition is open to New Zealand residents only - Better get over to the ORGANZ website and read all about it! Handsome prizes to be won (deadline is Wednesday, 2nd February 2011) so get cracking with those cameras now. Details here at organz (click on Opportunities/Competitions)
- Life has been fairly full lately so I have only this little delight which should tickle the fancies of cartoon lovers out there: Tom and Jerry play - sort of - Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody no 2. (Thanks to Mark Quarmby for passing this on.)
(Don't forget to enter our competition),
Right - I'm off to have a happy splash in the hot water that is now flowing into our kitchen, after having had none for 6 months....
Jenny