Music in Bloomsbury and Organists Online Event: Grand Orgue

Saturday 28 January 2012 from 2 pm at Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, 235 Shaftesbury Ave, LONDON WC2 8EP
Organ recitals and talks.

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Monday 30th January 7.30 - 9.30 pm St Paul's Cathedral

EDOA members were offered a few places on a visit to St Paul's Cathedral with St Andrew's Church Enfield for a guided tour of the organ by Simon Johnson.

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RCO London Organ Forum at St Giles Cripplegate Church, London EC2
Saturday 5 November 2011 10.00 am

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EDOA Teachers' Forum event

Saturday 12 November 2011 2.00pm - 5.00pm at Grange Park Methodist Church, London N21
Unfortunately this workshop had to be postponed as not enough participants came forward.
It is hoped that it will take place in May 2012.

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Visit

Monday 22 August 2011
EDOA has been invited to join CLESO members on a visit to the new mechanical action organ by Robin Jennings at Our Lady of Lourdes Church, 51 Cambridge Park, London E11 2PR
For further information about the organ see http://www.brentwood-music.org.uk/organs/wanstead/recitalbooklet.pdf

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Concerts

Thursday 7 July - Saturday 16 July 2011
St Alban's International Organ Festival
Further details at the St Albans International Organ Festival website

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Visit

Saturday 18 June 2011 3.00 pm Christ Church Chelsea
A chance to visit the Flentrop organ at Christ Church Chelsea. The organist Joe McHardy will introduce and demonstrate the organ to us.
At 4.30 pm a guided walk round Chelsea.

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Workshop

Saturday 21st May 2011
Service Accompaniment Workshop with Roger Carter, St. Francis Welwyn Garden City

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Talk

Tuesday 5th April 2011
Talk on Jehan Alain by Stephen Farr, St Mary Magdalene, Enfield

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London Organ Day

Saturday 5th March 2011
25th London Organ Day at the Temple Church

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AGM

Saturday 12th February 2011
AGM and Recital by Martin Penny at All Saints Hertford, followed by a meal at the Salisbury Arms Hotel

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Organists Online Open House

Saturday 29th January 2011, Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church

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At Home

Thursday 21st October 2010, At home with Ted Sharp, Orchard Road Tewin - organ CDs

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Choral Workshop

Saturday 25th September 2010 - cancelled due to lack of participants

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Concert by EDOA Members

Saturday 12 June 2010 7.30 pm at St Mary's Church, Churchgate, Cheshunt more ... | organ spec (PDF format).

The 1891 Hill organ has undergone extensive restoration by The Village Workshop.

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Visit

Saturday 15 May 2010 VISIT TO TWO 3-MANUAL ORGANS IN DULWICH

13:30hrs Christ's Chapel of Alleyn's College of God's Gift, Gallery Road, Dulwich Village, London, SE21 7AS

15:15hrs St Barnabas Church, Calton Avenue, Dulwich, London, SE21 7DG -Organ by Kenneth Tickell (1997)

These two mechanical action organs are both in the English tradition, but one is largely historic, the other made new.

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EDOA Teachers' Forum event

Tuesday 27 April 2010 7.45 pm at Trinity-at-Bowes Methodist Church, Palmerston Road, N22

Pupils' recital. This event is open to pupils of any age and standard. EDOA members with pupils who are willing to take part should contact Roger Carter by April 13th latest, preferably sooner. View photos ...

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London Organ Day

6 March 2010There is no separate EDOA event in March as many members will wish to attend the London Organ Day more ...

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Annual General Meeting and Recital

6 February 2010 at St John's Church, St.John's Road, Harpenden more ...

5.00 pm tea

5.20 pm AGM

6.00 pm Recital by Roger Carter.

7.00 pm Meal at the 'Engineer' public house, a few yards from the church.

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Talk

Wednesday 20 January 2010, 7.30pm - 9.30pm, Trinity at Bowes Church, Palmerston Road, London N22 8RA

S.S. Wesley - a bicentenary appreciation

S S Wesley (1810 - 1876), son of Samuel Wesley, grandson of Charles Wes ley and great nephew of John Wesley, is known today for his fine hymn tunes, melodious anthems and lyrical organ music. In his day he did much to revive the fortunes of cathedral choirs after a period of low standards and haphazard organisation, holding positions at Hereford, Exeter, Winchester and Gloucester Cathedrals, and at Leeds Parish Church.

Dr Peter Horton, Research Librarian at the Royal College of Music, whose biography of Wesley is published by OUP, will give an illustrated talk on the life and music of this energetic musician.

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Study event

Saturday 21 November 2009, 10.15am - 6.00pm, St Giles Cripplegate Church, London EC2

RCO London Organ Forum, Mendlessohn: playing with history

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Visit

Monday 19 October 2009, 7.00pm - 9.30pm, at Felix Aprahamian's house, Muswell Hill, N10

Concert organist David Aprahamian Liddle spoke about the organs in the house and played them.

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Visit

Thursday 17 September 2009,at 8 pm

At Home - with Colin Wharton (in Whetstone, London, N20)

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Concerts

Thursday 9 July - Saturday 18 July 2009

St Alban's International Organ Festival

Further details in future newsletters and at the St Albans International Organ Festival website, more ...

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Concert by EDOA Members

Saturday 13 June 2009 7.30 pm at St Mark's Church, Colney Heath, more ... | organ (PDF format).

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EDOA Teachers' Forum event

Tuesday 28 April 2009, 7.30pm at Trinity-at-Bowes Methodist Church, Palmerston Road, N22, more ...

Ann Elise Smoot from St Giles International Organ School (London), offered a masterclass on the organ music of Handel, Haydn, Mendelssohn and Purcell; all of whom have anniversaries in 2009.

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Visit

Saturday 14 March 2009, 9.30 for 10.00 - 17.15 at St Peter's, Eaton Square, London, SW1W 9AL, more ...

Principal soloist: Johannes Geffert

Masterclass | an EDOA Teachers' Forum event

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Annual General Meeting and Recital, St Andrew's, Market Square, Enfield, EN1 3EG, more ...

Saturday 21 February 2009

5 pm AGM

6 pm Recital by Linden Innes-Hopkins | Download a poster for this event (PDF format)

7 pm Meal at Caf� Uno, Silver Street, Enfield

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Visit

Saturday 24 January 2009, 11am, Foundling Museum, London, WC1N 1AZ, more ...

A guided tour of the museum, of the Gerald Coke Handel Collection, and the special anniversary exhibition: Handel the Philanthopist.

The Foundling Hospital was Britain's original home for abandoned children and London's first ever art gallery. The Foundling Museum tells the story of the Hospital and of three major figures in British history: its campaigning founder the philanthropist Thomas Coram, the artist William Hogarth and the composer George Frideric Handel who donated an organ to its chapel and who gave annual charity performances of 'Messiah' to raise funds for its work. This remarkable collection of art, period interiors and social history is now housed in a restored and refurbished building at 40 Brunswick Square, London WC1. A particular attraction to EDOA Members in 2009 will be the special exhibition, Handel the Philanthropist, commemorating the 250th anniversary of the death of Handel, which will draw on the Gerald Coke Handel Collection which is housed at the Museum. The collection includes an autograph copy of the score of 'Messiah'. We shall have a guided tour of the collection.

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Lecture

Thursday 13 November 2008, 8pm. Trinity-at-Bowes, N22, more ...

The Battle of the Organ Cases

Speaker: John Norman, more ... (Chairman of the British institute of Organ studies, more ... )

Abstract:

Ugly organs lead to instruments being pushed into inconvenient comers. To avoid this, there has been a revival of organ case design in the last 40 or 50 years. Few new organs are made without a significant case Some prefer a 'modern' case whilst others go for something more traditional - a battle which is still unresolved. This illustrated talk will comment on some prime examples of each.

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Talk

Thursday 23 October 2008, 8pm. St Mary Magdalene, Windmill Hill, Enfield, more ...

Ralph Vaughan Williams and The English Hymnal : a talk by Canon Martin Draper, Vicar of St George's Paris and Archdeacon of France who is on the board of the English Hymnal Society.

Refreshments available. Retiring collection.

More details: A4 poster | A5 poster

View images of this event - click here

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Visit

Saturday 5 July 2008, 11am-12.30pm to St Giles Crippleggate, Fore Street, Barbican, London EC2Y 8DA

To hear and play the new east end organ (2-manuals) by Mander.

In the afternoon we hope to go on, to St Giles-in-the-Fields, 60 St Giles High Street, London WC2H 8LG

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Concert by EDOA members

Saturday 7 June 2008, 7.30 pm at St John�s Church, Harpenden, more ...

If you wish to perform at this event please contact Dr Colin Wharton | email

Full details of the venue, and of times, were in the March 2008 newsletter

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Choral Directing Workshop

Saturday 17 May 2008, 2pm-4pm at St George's Hanover Square, London W1, more ...

A chance for choral conductors from beginners upwards to gain experience and advice from Simon Williams on working with choirs and in conducting a range of church choir repertoire. You can attend as an active participant or observer. Members of Harrow Choral Society will be present to join with EDOA members in forming a choir.

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Students� Concert

Saturday 26 April 2008, 2.30 at Trinity-at-Bowes Methodist Church, Palmerston Road, N22.

Any member with a pupil (or pupils) of any age or standard, willing to contribute please contact Roger Carter by 9 April (preferably well before this date!) | email

View an image of this event - click here

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AGM and Presidential Recital

Saturday 23 February 2008 at St George�s, Hanover Square W1, more ...

5 pm - AGM | 6 pm - Recital | 7 pm (or shortly after) Meal

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Illustrated lecture on the music of Olivier Messiaen

Thursday 31 January 2008, 7.30 pm at Trinity-at-Bowes Methodist Church Palmerston Road N22 8RA, more ...

2008 has seen the musical world marking the centenary of the birth of Olivier Messiaen, perhaps the most important composer for organ since JS Bach. We are very fortunate indeed that Jennifer Bate, who collaborated very closely with the composer and whose recordings of the complete organ works have received much praise, has agreed to present an illustrated lecture on Messiaen, the man and his music. Attending this event would make an excellent start to a year when we should all try to take advantage of the many opportunities there will be to hear the master's music.

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