Rieger Pipe Organ in the Town Hall, Christchurch, New Zealand
The January 2025 newsletter is out. Although the briefest of brief newsletters, it does give readers a chance to win one of 2 organ calendars for 2025! AND, just for intrigue, that also involves a blooper on my part. You'll have to see the competition to find out what it is!
There is a great deal of new content and fresh material on nzorgan.com. Coming events and news of the Friends Trust will be publicised here. But we also aim to maintain this site with a compilation of its unique and historic photos, events, and everything else that we followed in the 13 years the Rieger organ was active in the Town Hall before the earthquakes and all that is happening since. As these pages were originally a footprint in time, the narrative text about the installation and opening events are just as they were recorded.
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Mayor Lianne Dalziel officially re-opens the Christchurch Town Hall Rieger organ
Our Rieger organ is a front cover star for "Organs and Organists: Their Inside Stories":
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