ORGAN GIFTS
AND GOODIES
and now, a calendar shop!
We
now have three shops selling organ goodies: there is a brand new
shop simply devoted to organ calendars, as
here:
then there is the shop devoted to
products
carrying the more elegant, conventional images showing the
grandeur of the instruments, such as here: www.organgifts.com
or the same products showing the lighter side of music, with
sayings, drawings, cartoons, and one-liners, as found here:
www.cafepress.com/music_humor
Either way, you're sure to be able to find gifts for your favourite musicians somewhere in either of these two shops. There are t-shirts, clocks, mugs, cards, calendars, track suits, posters, mousepads, aprons, bags yadda yadda yadda ....
Our videos and DVD are
available online here!
For
more information about this specially produced educational video,
click here
Organ
buffs will love the new range of our
t-shirts, organ mugs, mousepads,
wooden tile boxes, and postcards and much more!
In the past we have been asked if there are any such souvenirs,
so now there are! [more...]
Please ask
if there is something you would like that isn't there.
For a quick little jigsaw puzzle (you
can even attach it to email for your friends!) left click on the
image above.
(Sorry Mac users - this is an exe file so usable only on a PC)
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Inquiries to organ curator
Martin Setchell
are most
welcome or visit
Martin's homepage at www.organist.co.nz
Why
did the cleaners interrupt Jacques' Back organ concert ?! Go here
to find out!
For review and photos of the
Arts Festival Jacques' Back!
concert on August 2, 2000
donk here
Visit offthemark.com for more music cartoons. |
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For photos and an account of the installation,
dink here |
Sound files of the organ,
dunk here |
To buy the videos, DVD, CDs or souvenirs of our organ,
donk
here |
- Neandertal hymn writer - David Bridgeman-Sutton looks at the connections between Joachim Neander and climate change in his Musings and Amusings column for March.
- Join Friends of the Organ now and enjoy the benefits!
- NEW!! crossword competition!! Enter here
- Daniel
Roth - or rather "Homage à Daniel
Roth",
comes under the critical ear and eye of David Bridgeman-Sutton.
[More...]
- Summer is still with us in New Zealand - and
here's your chance to try a few delicious yet simple summer puddings
to cool off with [More.
. . ]
- There are two new desktop pictures, free
to download and use. But these are not - for once -
of organs [More.
. . ]
- Looking
for those websites featured in our past newsletters, but you've
lost your copies of those great links?
Never fear - they
are listed here
- Yes,
folks, we have a new reviewer in the guise of Grant Vicat.
See what he thinks about a new release of French organ music
on the Quantum label [Read
reviews]
- Paul
Arden-Taylor of Dinmore Records provides a brief
guide for the amateur audio engineer who wishes to have a go
at recording the organ. [More
]
- A page listing the 2007 concerts in Christchurch is now available. This is all part of an effort to help stop important dates coinciding. [More. . . ]
- Join Friends of the Organ now and enjoy the benefits! Find out more here
- With the death of Edward Heath, former Primer Minister of England, the organ world lost a keen fan. David Bridgeman-Sutton writes a personal tribute.
- Peripatetic
Pedals is
the title of the latest (Oct 25 2004) in our pipe organ screensavers for
PC. They're all free, and are just a bit of fun and
one way we can show you some of the deligtful organs
that we have had the pleasure of playing. [Download
]
- Broadcaster
Alistair Cooke's Letters from America
were one thing; his telegrams were another. And why was he sending
them to a headmaster in Lancashire? Find out in this special edition
of Musings and Amusings [More
. . . ]
- When
Mussorgsky wrote his Pictures at an Exhibition, it was as a reaction
to paintings by his friend Hartmann. Now, one of the top New Zealand
artists has done the opposite ~ reacting on canvas to Mussorgsky's
music ~ and the resulting suite of artworks partnered the music.
[More...]
- What
became of the little wide-eyed chorister in the front row when
Elgar was conducting one day? He became quite something
actually. Read about it here
in an exclusive interview with Sir David Willcocks, in Christchurch
in January to conduct a performance of "Dream of Gerontius".
- Why
do audiences behave badly? And what can we do about it?
Here organ curator Martin Setchell opens a sweety,
coughs loudly, and muses in a loud voice on the question ....
- Organ
Blowers immortalised in verse? See
these gems for yourself!
- "1430s?
- 1722 CDs of Organ Music" - This listing, by Jo
Huddleston ( of "Organ CDs - a Place-Name Index"
fame) shows CDs which make some claim at having recorded old organ
pipework throughout Europe (with Mexico making an occasional appearance).
A fascinating undertaking...
- Fine
Tuning a King
- an interview with Kenneth Aplin, tuner of the Rieger in the
Town Hall.
- Vox
populi - The
philosophy behind giving the pleasure of this organ back to the
people who all helped to provide it.
- Bach
250th celebration concerts
- reviews,
photos, programmes
- Index
of all organ puzzles and crosswords
- Latest NZOrgan.com newsletter
- History
of the organ
- Stop
List
- Rieger
Orgelbau - The official website.
- Other
organ page links
- Useful
New Zealand links
- School
concerts held
- Souvenir
mugs, mousepad, postcards, of organs around the world!
- CD
orders
- Coming
events that involve this organ
- Sound
files
- Odds
- News
- CD
and Book Reviews
So, how is the organ doing? Well, after a year, the baby celebrated its birthday with an article in the local press in May 1998. Read what had happened in one year here
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