Choir & Organ Magazine July - Aug 2014 Zurück Ausgabe

In our latest issue, outgoing Proms director Roger Wright talks to Choir & Organ about attracting new audiences for classical music; Rikkyo University’s director of music reports on Tokyo’s two new organs by Kenneth Tickell and C B Fisk; and a look at the concerts, services and exhibitions taking place to commemorate the centenary of the outbreak of the Great War. Plus, León Cathedral’s new organ that blends the creative genius of Jean Guillou with the technical proficiency of Orgelbau Klais; how music in Belfast’s two cathedrals is helping to build bridges in Ulster’s former hotspot; David Hill on conducting the musical giant that is Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius; our international directory of pipe organ builders and free sheet music by young composer Lucy Pankhurst.