Watch the Grand Re-Opening of the
​Christchurch Town Hall Organ, New Zealand

Our hearts are today and for the weeks to come with the people of France and in particular, Paris as they face the morning with the result of the devastating fire at Notre Dame. A terrible tragedy and we sympathise with all our hearts. Kia Kaha.
Read our latest newsletter, April 18
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Mayor Lianne Dalziel officially re-opens the Christchurch Town Hall Rieger organ
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Martin Setchell plays the re-opening concert on the Town Hall organ
Two concerts on Wednesday, March 6th, 2019 marked the re-opening of the Rieger pipe organ in the Town Hall auditorium.  The video of the evening concert can be viewed from Shipleys audiovisual production website. (Slideshow begins the video, then live event starts about 2 minutes in)
COMING UP: The next solo organ concert is on Sunday, June 9th at 3pm, when organist Maurice Clerc from Dijon, France, will unleash his considerable musical skills on an instrument so suited to French music.
If you enjoyed the opening concerts, buy the "Resounding Aftershocks" CD from which Martin chose his programme.
​Order here
Live streaming is still available for both concerts from this link
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Click the image to go to the tracklist on www.pipelinepress.com
Individual tracks, and the complete CD, are available for download from Pipeline Press website now!
Download tracks 
Join the Friends of the Town Hall Organ Trust! Click image above to find out more or go here
Read the January 2019,  newsletter here :
​Here comes Resounding Aftershocks
There is a great deal of new content and fresh material on nzorgan.com. But we also aim to make this site a compilation of the original nzorgan.com website with its unique and historic photos, commentaries, news, events, articles,  and everything else that we followed in the 13 years the Rieger organ was active in the Town Hall. It has been pared to show only the essential details.  As these pages were originally a footprint in time of a special musical instrument, the narrative text about the installation and opening events are as they were recorded. Apart from correcting dead links and other whoopsies, only later developments, the impact of the earthquakes, and rebuilding progress pages have been updated. 
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