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* Image Freddie James and Wenying Wu. The RCO’s online Winter Conference returns to offer an experience for everyone with an interest in the organ and its music. It runs from 14:00–21:00 (GMT) on Thursday 17th and Friday 18th February and from 10:00–21:30 (GMT) on Saturday 19th February 2022. The conference will be Online only…
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The Royal College of Organists (RCO) has generously made its considerable library of online video tutorial material available for free during the ‘lockdown’. If you care to take a look, it is extensive and of course of very good quality as you would expect. iRCO is the RCO’s virtual campus – an online environment where…
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On a grey Saturday at the end of January I headed into central London to attend the annual Bloomsbury Organ Day, hosted by the Central Baptist Church in Shaftesbury Avenue, a stone’s throw from the British Museum. This event was actually the tenth such occasion masterminded by Philip Norman, a freelance organist and conductor in…
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Two spectacular events at St Mary’s Church in Wingham, Canterbury on the 17th and 18th of November 2017. Firstly an Organ Concert with Daniel Moult and then a chance for you to get hands on with the King of Instruments yourself at the Open Day. Two events that surely can’t be missed! Organ Spectacular Concert…
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We are delighted to have been invited to support this new calendar event in Londonderry on October 19th to the 21st 2017 run by the RCO with the objective of engaging young musicians with the joys of the organ. The Guildhall Organ Festival is centred around the recently restored magnificent Hill, Norman & Beard pipe organ…
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My very first job was as an articled accountant in London working a stones throw from Borough Market in a brand new tower block by London Bridge station. That block has since been demolished and on that site now sits the Shard. Who would have though a tower block would become redundant in just 40…
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On Saturday January 7th 2017 the RCO in conjunction with the Organ Club, arranged for a full day visit to the Troxy Cinema in Commercial Road East London to explore the Wurlitzer Organ installed there in 2015. What a day out it proved to be! Unfortunately I did not get there until the lunch break…
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If a poll amongst organists were put out, I suspect there would be universal agreement that interest in the organ and its music has been in a slow but steady decline over the last 50 years. This is certainly the case in the UK – although it’s still esteemed in some countries. Here, I talk…
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The idea for an association of Organists was conceived in November 1863 when the organist of St Michael’s Cornhill, Richard Limpus, convened a meeting of his fellow organists at Mullen’s Hotel Ironmonger Lane. This led to further meetings in 1864 and so it was that the ‘College of Organists’ began life holding its first open…
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