Forthcoming Events
| Saturday 21st March 2020
CANCELLED – COVID-19 7:30am – Depart Hop Pole Pub in Ollerton Pick up along Mansfield Rd on the way to: 8:00am – Pick up at the Forest Park and Ride, Nottingham Return from Malvern at 4:30pm, arriving in Nottingham circa 7:00pm £25/person
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Visit (by coach) to Malvern: Nicholson & Co. Organ Builders; then the organs at Malvern Priory and St Mary Magdalene, Twyning.
Malvern Priory main organ: Nicholson 4 manual/49 stop Organ Twyning organ: John Nicholson’s last organ (1886),a 2 manual/23 stop Organ |
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| April 2020 TBC
CANCELLED – COVID-19 |
A White Peak afternoon to include access to some village organs and perhaps even a well dressing! Further details to follow when available. | |
| Saturday 16th May
CANCELLED – COVID-19 |
President’s Event details TBC | |
| Saturday 6th June 2020 @ 6:30pm
CANCELLED – COVID-19 |
A visit to St John’s College Chapel where we have been allowed rare access to a choir rehearsal and Sidney Sussex College Chapels, Cambridge. Evensong is at 6:30pm | |
| Sunday 27th September | Elliott Walker talk to the society on Zoom about the Oxford Movement and its effect on choirs and organs of the UK. | |
| Monday 28th October 2020
ZOOM A.G.M. |
A.G.M. on Zoom with members videos | |
| Sunday 17th November
ZOOM RECITAL |
Members recital featuring videos of members performing pieces on their home or local church organs plus a talk by Ian Wells | VIDEOS OF THIS EVENT |
| Monday 21st December
ZOOM CHRISTMAS EVENT |
ADVENT TO CANDLEMAS
Members recital with Christmas Carols from All Saint’s Aston and St Mary’s, Nottingham |
VIDEOS OF THIS EVENT |
| Friday 29th January 2021
2:00pm Zoom |
The event will take the form of a visit to Flentrop Orgelbouw, where we will be welcomed by their chief voicer, Dirk Koomans. The meeting will have an informal air to it, among other things, he will be demonstrating the process of voicing a new organ pipe from start to finish. | VIDEOS OF THIS EVENT: |
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Forthcoming Recitals & Concerts
Nothing at present. Events cancelled due to Covid-19
Cherish Our Churches 2019 – David Butterworth
We kick off with an organ recital on 20th October by myself. The programme is designed to make best use of this particular instrument on the one hand, i.e. its many colours that are right up the ‘Baroque’ street; but on the other interspersed with one or two surprises, mainly of a contemporary nature, which I personally think sound fabulous on this instrument with its incisive and clear tonalities.
On 10th November, we are to be entertained by Kadie Kanneh-Mason’s three youngest, whom I have presumed to describe as a Trio: Jeneba (piano), Aminata (violin) and Mariatu (‘cello.) They have already played for me elsewhere last April, and they brought the house down with both their music and their charm. At this stage, the programme is in the making, but I think we can expect some Chopin, and I am putting in a special plea for the third movement of Prokofiev’s Sonata no. 7; but of course they must choose what suits them best at this moment in time.
Finally, Paul Hale will join us on 24th November, to share a programme exploring the proximity of my two luck-knows-no-bounds instruments, the Grant, Degens and Bradbeer organ and the Steinway Model D concert grand. Paul is well known in many spheres, not least as conductor of the Nottingham Bach Society for many years and, in my book crowning everything else, his masterly management of the music at Southwell Minster, through good and bad times, through thick and thin, a potential minefield of problems and hurdles which he has consistently braved and handled with remarkable aplomb and total success; I shall never forget that psalm singing on Thursday evenings (my favourite spot of the week.) But on a quieter note, it has always struck me just what a wonderfully musical person Paul is; a joy to work with. We have discovered a complete suite for organ and piano by the Canadian composer Denis Bédard, not a well-known work but really enjoyable to play and to listen to; better known in Canada of course.
Further details on the poster below.
David Butterworth
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