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Newsletter October 2017

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Seeing double competition!

The cats have been tinkering with my computer again, and messed up a photo of the immense Passau Cathedral organ (above). See if you can find the 10 differences they made to the photo, and send your answers to go in the draw for a cheery T-shirt (only for men this time). The shirt is Medium size, and has a cartoon of an organist frantically thrashing away at his console on the pocket. Perfect little surprise gift for the hard-working organist in your life. Go here to enter . The competition closes on October 31st, so get cracking now. It's harder - but more fun - than you think!

The Kilmore Street entrance as pictured on Tuesday, October 17th. The organ is at the rear of the stage, still snugly slumbering inside its cocoon.

Getting there with no news, which is good news
The barricades of corrugated iron, fencing, and heavy machinery surround the Town Hall as they have done now for 7 long years. But progress inside on repairing the earthquake damage is clearly galloping (well, cantering) ahead without incident with the view to a reopening in 2019. We've learnt to curb impatience, but sneak peeks are always still available through the webcam inside the auditorium. Click here to go to the 2 cameras, or if you forget this link, just go to nzorgan.com and go from the homepage link there.

NEXT GENERATION: During the October school holidays, ANZCO (NZ) - the Australian and New Zealand College of organists (www.anzco.org) organised its second series of concerts by young organists throughout the country under the title NEXT GENZ.
Congratulations to the three young Christchurch organists who shared a splendid concert on the Rodgers Infinity organ of St Mary's Manchester Street, Christchurch on Wednesday, October 4, pictured from L to R, Ethan Huang, Lewis Grey (students of Martin Setchell) and Valerie Xiang (student of Russell Kent). Ethan played Bach's Prelude and Fugue in A minor BWV 543, Lewis played Bach's Prelude and Fugue in C minor BWV 549, and Valery played the Prelude, Fugue and Variation in b minor, Opus 18 by Franck and Tuba Tune by Richard Madden. Well done all of you - a truly promising start.

Hearing organist friends on social media bemoaning their lot as they try to play their pre- or post - service voluntaries over the babble of chattering congregations brought back memories of those dark days. It is such a global and common problem for church musicians. This led me to design a couple of t-shirts in the two shops that I run through the Pipeline Press website: Zazzle (organgifts.com) and RedBubble (jenny.nz). While you're there have a look at a few of the other bits and pieces that have been added lately. If you can't find what you're looking for, ask me!

Now you can "Search Inside"
Hurrah - it took several days of frustration but finally the partial content of "Organs and Organists: Their Inside Stories" can be seen through Amazon's "Look Inside" feature. Of course, only 10% of the total pages are there but enough are viewable for you to get an idea what it is about. Go to Amazon's page here to explore and see if you feature!

From the Swellbox

A few minor snipplets:

The Organ Experience - another addictive site courtesy of the Organ Media Foundation. Rich hours of organ-listening. Information about the organs playing is a bonus.
A serious issue and well worth the read: The Devaluation of Music - It's worse than you think.
And now, a jaw-dropping video for fellow registrants and page turners out there: Thomas Ospital plays at St Sulpice in Paris, aided by none other than titulaire Daniel Roth and two others. Never let it be said assistants are just along for the ride.
This non-musical offering is amusing but somewhat weird. A Ukrainian artist has taken figures from classical paintings and inserted them into daily modern life. The results are strange but compelling. There are two parts so do look for both. This is Part 2 which has a link to the first part.

More news next month, and don't forget to tackle the competition!
Time to iron the cats now,
cheers
Jenny

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