Organists' Review Magazine

We have a North American flavour to our December edition. David Briggs, now resident in New York, is in conversation with Huw Morgan and David Pipe, while Carol Williams tours New England. We encounter two further North American organist-composers: Sarah Davachi speaks to Huw Morgan from her home in Los Angeles, and the late Rachel Laurin’s organ works are examined by Brenda Portman. We receive a letter from Vancouver written by Neil Cockburn. Closer to home, John Challenger tells us about his work at Salisbury Cathedral; Ourania Gassiou offers a tribute to her mentor, the late Nicolas Kynaston; Patrick Russill tells us about his life in church music; and there is a special interview with Sir John Rutter in his 80th birthday year.

John Rowntree completes his two-part survey of the Organ Reform Movement, examining organs in Britain that followed the groundbreaking arrival of the Frobenius organ at The Queen’s College Oxford in 1965, and considering the influences from the 1960s onwards that led to the continuing development of ‘organ reform’.