Description
Published to mark the centenary of The Organ Club, this expansive compendium celebrates the “king of instruments”, its literature, and those who play it.
With a foreword by distinguished organist Dame Gillian Weir, this book situates the activities of The Organ Club within the wider context of numerous aspects of the world of organ and choral music over the past 100 years; it aims to explore in depth several topics that are not only central but also unique to this remarkable century of change; and to provide an accurate and fairly comprehensive portrayal of British organ and church music from the 1920s to the present 2020s.
Organised four parts – The Club, The Organ, Church Music, Organ Performance and Teaching – the book includes contributions from leading organists such as Graeme Keir and Thomas Trotter
Jonathan Rennert (President of The Organ Club) writes:
Do you enjoy listening to organ music? Are you an organist, an organ builder, a teacher, a student, a musicologist, or a lover of the sound of diapasons and tubas? For one hundred years, since 1926, The
Organ Club has catered for enthusiasts of the world’s most complex and resourceful musical instrument. Mozart called it The King of Instruments. This fat book celebrates the Club’s centenary by presenting chapters which cover a wide range of subjects: organ building, organ recording, teaching children and adults to play the organ, and personalities of the organ world. The authors are experts in their fields. The editor, Paul Hale, is himself a fine recitalist, cathedral organist and consultant on organ projects.
I am full of admiration for The Organ Club…. I am delighted to have been one of the Organ Club’s Vice Presidents for many years, and to have the opportunity now of commending the extraordinary range of interests and activities available to its members. Explore these pages and marvel at the pleasures described within. Dame Gillian Weir
