USOC BULLETIN MAY 2007
USOC Visit to Londonderry
Saturday 9th June 2007
In
June, the Society will celebrate the 150th
anniversary of the birth of Edward Elgar with a special day trip to Londonderry. We will sample choral and
organ music in three of the city’s most famous buildings; the day will
culminate with a free concert given by David
Briggs (Organist Emeritus, Gloucester Cathedral) who will perform Elgar’s
Organ Sonata on the recent 4-manual Wells-Kennedy rebuild at St Columb’s
Cathedral.
The
timetable for the day is as follows:
2.30-3:30pm: ‘Open Console’ in
Christ Church, Infirmary Road. A chance to play the Wells-Kennedy tracker
instrument built in 2000.
3.30-4.30pm: Buxtehude recital in
Christ Church, Infirmary Road. An informal recital of organ works by
Dietrich Buxtehude (who celebrates his 300th birthday this year)
performed by local USOC members.
4.30-5.30pm: Visit to Saint
Eugene’s RC Cathedral (beside Christ Church) to sample some choral music in
the Cathedral’s wonderful acoustic.
Dinner in a city centre
hotel
7:15pm: Pre-concert
talk on Elgar’s only visit to Ireland in October 1932 by Elgar Society
member Wesley McCann (in the Chapter House, St Columb’s Cathedral).
8.00pm: Celebrity Organ Recital in St Columb’s Cathedral by
David Briggs. Programme to include Elgar’s Organ Sonata.
If
you would like to share a lift from Belfast to Londonderry, please register
your interest by contacting Ian Mills on 07751 859945, or by email organist@stcolumbscathedralchoir.com.
Thanks go to . . .
Dick Walker and David
McElderry for organising a lovely day in Co Monaghan, when the Society visited
some lovely venues and organs and organised the best lunch £10 can buy!
The President, James Little,
for organising a superb trip to Oxford over the May Bank Holiday weekend.
MARTIN BAKER
(Westminster
Cathedral)
Saturday 26th
May at 6pm,
ST PETER’S
CATHEDRAL
Followed by
improvising at the 7.30pm Mass.
Tickets for
the Recital are £8 on the door
Please make
every effort to support this event.
St Peter’s Cathedral and USOC Saturday Mass series
continues …
June 16th Renaissance – Vierne Messe
Solonelle
September 8th Cadenza
October 13th Methodist College, Belfast
November 17th Cathedral Voices, Durufle Requiem (Requiem
Mass)
December 8th tba
CARLO
CURLEY'S ORGAN 'EXTRAVANZA'
BALLYWILLAN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
PORTRUSH CO. ANTRIM
Friday 10th August 2007 at 8.00 pm
Details from the Church Office 028 7082 2612
NIGEL OGDEN
As presenter of the BBC’s
long running series “The Organist Entertains”, NIGEL OGDEN could probably be described as Britain’s most popular
organist. On Saturday 26th
May, he will be at the console of the TONIC
THEATRE ORGAN at Bangor Academy (Gransha Road campus). Tickets are
available at the concert which begins at 8pm
and will include a silent film with organ accompaniment.
If you need directions for driving there phone
Rodney Bambrick (028) 9146
5222
Visit to
Northern Ireland by Cappella Magdalena, France
The ensemble of 8 women was formed in 2003 to perform music written for, and
commissioned by, Italian women in the 16th century and includes Rachel Adams.
This is Cappella Magdalena’s first visit to Northern Ireland and the programme
will include motets by Palestrina, Guerrero, de Rore and music by Byrd.
There are two concerts – Saturday, 26 May 2007, 7.30pm, St. Columb’s Cathedral,
Londonderry and 27 May 2007, 7.30pm, St. George’s Church, Belfast. Tickets are
£10/£8, details from Rachel, 02892373457 and on the door.
MELISMA
Directed by Philip Stopford
“Sure on this shining night”, music for a summer’s
night.
Saturday 2nd June at 7.30pm, St George’s
Parish Church, Belfast
Tickets on
the door and from 07799 88 66 68
Belfast
Cathedral Choirs 5th Annual Summer Concert
Wednesday 27th
June at 8pm
St Anne’s
Cathedral, Belfast
Including a
performance of the Missa Brevis by Kenneth Leighton
Early Organ Music
Greg Lewin now publish modern editions (and some
facsimile ones) of early organ music. Some of our titles were originally
published by Hawthorns Music.
Most publications comprise an edition of an original publication (for instance
William Walond's 'Six Voluntaries for Organ or Harpsichord' op.1, 1752). Our
editions include this and other publications by Walond, Stanley, Handel, Boyce,
Nares, Thorley, Keeble, Roseingrave, Russell, Greene, S.S. Wesley, Tomkins,
Carleton, Alcock and Heron as well as continental ones by Lebegue, Dandrieu, du
Mage and Albrechtsburger. New titles are added regularly.
All titles can be purchased from our website which has full details of each
publication along with sample pages and audio files.
website: http://www.greglewin.co.uk
email: greg@greglewin.co.uk
phone: 01902 850048
Vacant Consoles
Stay up to date with local
Organists posts at www.usoc.org.uk
Congratulations to
Stephen Timpany who is now an
Associate of the Royal
College of Organists.
Website
Don’t forget to stay up to
date on the web - www.usoc.org.uk
Message from the Hon.Treasurer:
Thank you to all members who have already paid their
subscriptions by whatever means for 2007.
To those who have still to pay:
I should be
delighted to receive subscriptions from these members; the full
subscription for members resident in N.I. is still £20, and there are about 25
such outstanding. Fulltime students pay £12 and there are a small number
of these subscriptions outstanding. Some of our English members have still
to pay too.
Please see the notes on the payment sheet enclosed
with the December Bulletin. Do contact me if you have any queries in this
regard.
Reminding individual members of their obligations
takes time and effort but I shall attempt to contact the defaulters over
the next few months. Please help me to minimise this operation by paying
NOW.
………
CDS
CREATION and other CDs by
Belfast Cathedral Choir, Ecclesium and Philip Stopford continue to be available
at the Welcome Desk in St Anne’s Cathedral, which is open between 10am and 4pm
Monday to Saturday.
USOC 2007 Programme
15th Sept Choir training event with Paul Spicer;
Methodist College, Belfast.
Non-members to be invited
27th Oct Members’ Recital in St George’s P C, Belfast
including
Charles Harrison, Nigel McClintock (organ) and the choir of St George’s.
17th Nov Holywood Music Festival.
Inaugural organ classes organised by USOC
Any items of interest or
news, or church posts you wish to advertise, should be sent to me at music@belfastcathedral.org
or Director of Music, Belfast Cathedral, Donegall Street, Belfast, BT1 2HB.
Thank you. Philip Stopford, Hon.Sec.
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