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Celebrating the pipe organ in the Christchurch Town Hall, New Zealand

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Rieger Pipe Organ in the Town Hall, Christchurch, New Zealand

Thanks to Terry Thompson (Sea-am Thompson's proud father), we have videos of Monday's King's Birthday concert in Christchurch Town Hall. They are divided into 3 sections, so if you listen one after the other in order, you will get more or less the whole concert.
And by way of explanation, the gallery is not allowed to be used for our concerts, so if you were wondering where the audience was, they filled the downstairs stalls to capacity.
1st section: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qQ_qBpWQik
2nd: Sea-am: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr3RNu15qgI
3rd section: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ47OkgFwgc

June 2nd, 2025 King's Birthday concert - see you again next year!

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Well over 1000 music lovers forsook the gorgeous sunlit winter's day in Christchurch to come to the annual curator's concert on Monday. It was quite a buzz. If you missed out this time, there will be another. Just a matter of waiting until the next King's Birthday!
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Rehearsal time!

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There is a great deal of 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 and so quality is variable!

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Mayor Lianne Dalziel officially re-opens the Christchurch Town Hall Rieger organ

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