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Event Guide
THSH Town Hall, B3 3DQ
Mondays 1pm Thomas Trotter13 Mar with Conservatoire Chamber Choir
27 Mar – Raul Prieto Ramirez10 Apr (SH) music for Holy Week
24 Apr, 8 May, 22 May, 5 Junwww.thsh.co.uk
Holy Trinity, Wordsley, DY8 5RU1 Apr 1.30pm Peter KingSunday Afternoon Organ Music 3.00pmPaul Carr 2 Apr, 7 May, 4 Junwww.paulcarr.co.uk
St Chad’s Cathedral, B4 6EU
Thursday Live1st Thursday of the month, 1.15pm6 Apr David Saint4 May Paul Carr1 Jun Paul Carrwww.paulcarr.co.uk
Emmanuel, Wylde GreenB72 1YG, Andrew FletcherFridays 1pm,7 Apr, 5 May, 2 Junwww.andrewfletcher.org.uk
BOA newslettervolume 13 no 1
Spring 2017
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Birmingham Organists’ Association affiliated to the Incorporated Association of Organists
www.BhamOrgan.org.uk www.iao.org.uk
President: Mick Perrier 07967 595881
Secretary: Paul Evans 07504 857088
Assistant Sec: Nick Fanthom 07917 444077
Treasurer: Alan Taylor 07415 855082
Forthcoming events
AGM & ANNUAL RECITAL
SATURDAY 1ST APRIL, 11.00AM
Holy Trinity, Wordsley,DY8 5RU. Click for details.
AN EVENING WITH REGENT
RECORDS
WEDNESDAY 3 MAY, 7.45PM
Broadway URC, Walsall,WS5 3PH. Click for details.
SUMMER OUTING TO YORKSATURDAY 3 JUNE
Including visits to hear & play up to five city centre organs
PROGRAMME FOR 2017/8Plans for the rest of 2017/8 are
currently being finalised. We expect
to have details ready for the AGM on
1st April
In this issueFuture events: Past event reviews:
• Social: beer & skittles
• Visit to Garnier organ
• AGM & annual recital
• Regent Records
• Summer outing to York
• IAO Music Festival
• OrganFest 2017
Saturday
1 April
11.00am
Holy Trinity,
Wordsley
DY8 5RU
This event will follow the usual pattern adopted in
recent years as shown above. We are delighted to
welcome IAO President and recently retired Director
of Music of Bath Abbey, Dr PETER KING, as this year’s
recitalist. Details & booking arrangements have been
circulated and a copy is attached to this newsletter.
The cost of £12 covers coffee, a buffet lunch with
juice & wine, and admission to the recital. Lunch
must be booked in advance by 25th March: so don’t
delay!
Guests are welcome at the recital. Admission to the
recital only is £5.
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An evening with Regent RecordsAGM & annual recital
Wednesday
3 May
7.45pm
Broadway United Reformed Church,
Gillity Avenue
Walsall, WS5 3PH
BOA member and founder of Wolverhampton-based
Regent Records, GARY COLE, will give an illustrated
talk about his work at what is now one of the top
classical location recording companies in the UK.
Regent’s CD catalogue features many and varied
examples of organ and choral music. There will be an
opportunity to hear some of them and – if you wish –
purchase.
The church is situated at the junction of Walsall ring-
road (A4148) and Sutton Road (B4151) and has a
large car-park.
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IAO Music Festival (formerly Congress) 2017
Following an outstandingly successful IAO Festival in the city of Bath last summer, with over 150 people attending, the IAO’s major annual event this year is to be based in the historic city and university of Oxford.
July 23th – 27th http://festival.iao.org.uk
Full details and booking arrangements are available via the above link to pages on the IAO’s website. Details and a booking form may also be found in Organists’ Review.
The cost – which includes admission to all venues in Oxford and coach transport to Blenheim Palace & Eton College, – is still only £179. Tickets for the Festival Dinner in Exeter College must be purchased separately. Delegates are being invited to arrange their own accommodation, but details are given of the hotel being used by the Festival Committee. If you choose to use this hotel, early booking is recommended, because room rates increase as percentage occupancy rises.
Saturday3 June
An “organ crawl”
is planned in York
city centre,
organised on our
behalf by the vice-president of the York association,
Maximillian Elliott. All the venues are within reasonable
walking distance of each other, and are expected to
include All Saints North Street (II,15), Central Methodist
(III,42) and St Olave’s (III,43). We plan to end the day
with Choral Evensong in the Minster at 5.15pm.
The travel recommendation is to use the direct train
service from New Street departing 0830, currently priced
at under £25 for railcard holders. For those without rail
discount cards, it may be possible to arrange car sharing,
so if interested, please contact Alan Taylor by email or on
0741 585 5082.
More details will be circulated to members later.
A summer outing to York
Beer & skittlesPaul Evans
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HULL:UK city of culture
Friday 8th - Saturday 9th September
OrganFest is this year to be based inHull City Hallfeaturing its huge
(4-manual 141 stop) concert organ
Festival adviser: JOHN SCOTT WHITELEYOrganist Emeritus: York Minster
Booking is expected to open in May, but please
PUT THE DATES IN YOUR DIARY NOW!
Hull is easily accessible by rail from Birminghamin under 3 hours,
and the Hall is a short walk from the railway station
For the latest information and booking details, visit
www.organfest.org.uk
Provisional programme(may be subject to change)
Friday 8 Septemberfrom 5.30pm
Welcome from the promoters:BIOS, IAO, RCO
and Hull & East Riding Organ Group
Desert Island Discs,with “live” performances of music by
JOHN SCOTT WHITELEYand featuring BBC TV personality
HUW EDWARDSinterviewed by SIMON LINDLEY
Recital by COLIN WALSH
Saturday 9 Septemberfrom 10.00am
Recital of music composed byHull-born composer
Alfred HollinsTalk by Hull City Hall organ curator
JOHN PEMBERTONabout Hull-based organ builders
Forster & AndrewsANDREW McCREA celebrates
Dr Francis Jackson at 100Illustrated talk about the
project to complete Bach’s
OrgelbüchleinYoung Organists’ Forum
including an opportunity to hear themplay the City Hall organ
Grand Finale Recitalby KEVIN BOWYER
featuring theatre organ music
Two days of inspiring events forlovers of the organ and its music
BOA member Paul Geoghegan in action!
On Monday 23January wepaid a returnvisit (after a gapof six years) to the Walsall Arms for another beer and skittles evening - this time with beer! Members may remember that on our last visit the pub was in transition between landlords and had no licence so it was a case of bring your own bottles.
This time there were no such problems, on the contrary there was a wide choice of real ale and we were also provided with an excellent buffet. The skittles match was duly played with the same team captains as last time, Paul Evans and Nick Fanthom. The return match proved highly satisfactory from your writer’s perspective with a convincing win over Nick and his team leaving us one all. So there is all to play for on our next visit.
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Members were able to enjoy two hours of exploring this ratherchallenging but delightful instrument, with much Bach playing andeven a du Mage Tierce en Taille. It was a fascinating experience.
Henry Fairs at the main console, surrounded by BOA members
It had proved difficult to find a suitable time-slot in the Hall’s busyschedule, but in spite of this visit having to be arranged in themiddle of a working day (Monday 27 February), about a dozenmembers managed to make their way to the Bramall MusicBuilding of Birmingham University to hear and play the new organby French builder Marc Garnier.
Our guide was Henry Fairs, university organist (and BOA member),to whom thanks are due for making all the necessaryarrangements. Henry began by demonstrating the “chair” organ,played from a single keyboard situated so that the organist facesthe audience. This employs mean-tone tuning at A=415Hz and has“subsemitones” (split accidentals): here D# is not the same as E♭ !
Coping with this and the unconventional key layout at the bass endof its compass needs much practice – as I discovered. Even themore conventional main organ console had pitfalls for the unwary,as the pedalboard is straight and flat - definitely a hazard for thosemore comfortable with the RCO standard – and the manual keysare fractionally smaller than usual, not to mention flat stop jambs.
Of course, all this (as Henry explained) is intended to giveConservatoire students (and others) experience of the type ofinstrument found in parts of continental Europe, particularly thosethat aim to authentically reproduce historic organ-building.
Visit to the Elgar Concert HallAlan Taylor
Sat 10 June Nicholas Miller St John’s, Hyde Park, London
Sat 8 July Callum Alger St Peter’s,Wolverhampton
Sat 5 Aug Christopher Cipkin St Anne’s, Moseley
Broadway United Reformed Church, Walsall, WS5 3PH
Saturday morning “Coffee & Cake” recitalsRefreshments from 10.30am, recitals start 11.15am
Admission FREE: retiring collection.Programme details will be available HERE
before each event.