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.

 

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From:  Robert  Parkinson <mailto:bobpark@...>  
 
To: Sydney Organ Group <mailto:sydneyorgan@...>  
 
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 10:05 AM
 
Subject: [sydneyorgan]
 

 
Hello all

 
 
I 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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