Hello Bob, et omnia.
By sheer coincidence I have been working in Canberra since Friday and wasn't at my console on Sunday. Having driven roughly 2,900 kilometres over the previous 6 days, tuned 15 organs, attended 3 meetings and stayed in 5 different motels, I opted for a sleep in on Sunday morning. By another coincidence I woke at about 8.55am, so turned on the hotel television (which also plays Classic FM) to hear the ABC News. Imagine my surprise (and delight) when Alistair's broadcast materialised immediately afterwards, on the one Sunday of the year when I was actually able to listen to it (albeit on a hotel television).
For those of you who have never heard the "cadenza" section of the Bach Toccata, Adagio & Fugue played on a Norman & Beard Vox Humana, Stopped Diapason & Tremulant - you just haven't lived!
Peter Jewkes.
----- Original Message -----From: Robert ParkinsonSent: Monday, June 05, 2006 10:05 AMSubject: [sydneyorgan]Hello allI know it is a bit late, but yesterday (Sunday) morning at 9.05 am on ABC FM (when many of us were probably engaged in our duties) there was a recorded program of our own Alistair Nelson playing at St Patrick's Cathedral, Parramatta - a whole program of some 50 minutes - Bach, Ives and Polias, together with career details of Alistair right up to his present studies and Organ Scholarship in the US..The program was titled "Rising Stars". Did anyone else hear it or know about it?Have any ABC listeners noticed there seems to have been an increase in organ music recently - goodoh! Has someone been lobbying? Even this morning there was Piet Kie with the that old chestnut Bach Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, but I wish they would not play that Stokowski transcription so regularly.Bob Parkinson
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