Organo Pleno Newsletter Volume 67, Number 6 July 2006 The official Newsletter of the Society of Organists (Victoria) Incorporated PO Box 315 Camberwell, Victoria, Australia 3124 A 0028223J ABN 97 690 944 954 in affiliation with the Incorporated Association of Organists (UK) PP32.7.177/0040 Patrons: The Most Revd Denis J Hart DD The Right Revd Andrew St John DD News of forthcoming events, advertisements and other items of interest may be published free as a service to members. Email address: [email protected] or send articles to the ‘Newsletter Editor’ at the Society’s postal address above. Details for the August 2006 Newsletter should be sent to arrive before Monday 17 July, 2006. Tel: 0425 726 880 (mobile). General enquiries should be directed to the SOV President, Ian Harrison. Tel: 9885 2744. http://www.sov.org.au Society Dates for the diary: SOV Programme for July - August 2006 A WORKSHOP DAY WITH A DIFFERENCE Saturday 24 June, 10.00am at All Saints Anglican Church, 2 Chapel Street, St Kilda East. An opportunity not to be missed - for all organists and church musicians. See the details on the separate sheet enclosed and forward your application by Monday 19 June to: Joy Hearne, 38 Barter Crescent, Forest Hill, 3131. (Telephone 9893 3095) ORGAN AND FRENCH HORN STUDENTS CONCERT Friday 21 July, 7.45pm at St Stephen’s Presbyterian Church, cnr Canterbury and Warrigal Roads, Surrey Hills. This is a special opportunity for any organist (no age limit set) who would like to take part in this relaxed performance evening. Please telephone Joy Hearne on 9893 3095 as soon as possible if you would like to be in it. Organ teachers, please encourage your students to perform – about 8 minutes of music each. Horn Students of Trinette McClimont will also be performing. DAVID GOODE – ORGAN MUSIC & DISCUSSION Monday 21 August, 7.30pm at St John’s Anglican Church, Burke Road, Camberwell. This will be a special evening of organ music and talk by the visiting English organist David Goode and including coffee and dessert. Cost $10. Your friends are also welcome. This is a great opportunity to find out from this bright young organist what is happening in the organ music world beyond our shores. More information and booking form will be in the next newsletter and request to notify numbers of folk expecting to attend. GO ORGANic 2006 - Melbourne Town Hall Thursday 20 July, 1.00pm. FREE Frederick Swann (American Guild of Organists Chairman) will be the guest organist. His programme will include his own Trumpet Tune, some Bonnet, Fannie Charles Dillon, Sibelius and Healey Willan, and an Improvisation on a familiar melody. Following this recital - at 2.45pm - Frederick Swann will be conducting a Students’ masterclass. Another opportunity to hear FREDERICK SWANN will be at St Paul’s Cathedral on Sunday 23 July where he will give a recital after Evensong. (See details below) Thursday 24 August, 1.00pm. FREE David Goode (UK) will be the guest organist. He will perform organ music by Walton, Gliėre. Shostakovich, Buxtehude, Reger, William Albright, Robert Elmore and Camille Saint-Saĕns. ORGAN AUSTRALIA Have you heard / seen / read / done something interesting for others in the musical world lately? The Editor will be delighted to have a paragraph from you for the Have Your Say column. We have received some very encouraging comments about the journal, even comments from the United States. 1 Other Dates of interest: BERNIES MUSIC LAND PROGRAMMES Thursday 22 June, 2.00pm & 7.30pm at Bernies Music Land, 381 Canterbury Road, Ringwood. (Melway map 63D1) Laugh the winter away! A Silent Movie feature presentation with Ivan Richardson. Admission $5. Saturday 22 July, 8.00pm at Central Hall, Australian Catholic University, Brunswick Street, Fitzroy. (Melway map 2C ref A12) The Melbourne Welsh Male Choir with organist Roderick Junor. Admission $15, $12 concession. Thursday 10 August, 2.00pm and 7.30pm at Bernies Music Land, 381 Canterbury Road, Ringwood. (Melway map 63D1) Tony Fenelon will present a Roland Atelier Contemporary Organ Workshop. Tony always presents a great keyboard demonstration as well as an informative chat. Admission $5. Further information and bookings for each event, telephone 9872 5122. Website: www.musicland.com.au CONCERTS IN HOLY TRINITY CATHEDRAL, WANGARATTA Wangaratta’s Anglican Cathedral, on the corner of Docker and Ovens Streets, has two superb pipe organs: a romantic style 1922 Willis; and a smaller, historic, 1846 Bevington. These instruments enhance worship for both the parish and diocese, along with the Cathedral Choir, the only one in regional Victoria in which boys sing the treble line. Friday 23 June, 8.00pm Choir of Trinity College, University of Melbourne Conducted by Michael Leighton Jones, the Choir of Trinity College has gained great regard both in Australia and overseas through both performance and recordings. During the University holidays the choir will make a stop-over in Wangaratta on route to Canberra to help Wangaratta Choristers celebrate their 21st, and include them as guests in their performance. Saturday 12 August, 7.30pm Ensemble Gombert in Concert Ensemble Gombert is Melbourne’s outstanding chamber choir, noted for its pure intonation and historic approach to choral sound and style. Its founder and director, John O’Donnell, is an internationally renowned musician. In September the ensemble will again tour in Europe. The tour repertoire will be presented in Ensemble Gombert’s Wangaratta concert. Saturday 9 September, 2.30pm Three Choirs Festival The annual festival which brings together Wangaratta Choristers, Murray Conservatorium Choir and Beechworth Singers this year features (suitably, in his 250th anniversary year) Mozart’s Solemn Vespers. There will also be pieces by the individual choirs. This year there will be festival performances in Beechworth (3 September) and Albury (10 September). Sunday 15 October, 2.30pm Organ and Trumpet Anthony Pope, associate principal trumpet with Orchestra Victoria often performs with Dominic Perissinotto, formerly organ scholar at Westminster Cathedral, London, and now Director of Music at St Patrick’s Church, Fremantle, where presides over the largest parish church organ in Australia. It has 120 stops! Both musicians have toured and recorded frequently. Sunday 19 November, 2.30pm St Cecilia’s Day Concert As well as two organs, Holy Trinity Cathedral has two organists : Director of Music, John Rivers, and Assistant Organist, Samuel McMahon. ‘Two Organs and Two Organists’ is a concert to celebrate the patron saint of music whose feast day is 22 November. The program will feature works over many centuries to display the special tonal colours of the instruments. Sunday 17 December, 8.00pm Wangaratta Choristers’ Christmas Concert To conclude their anniversary year, and by popular request, the Choristers will present Handel’s much loved work Messiah (part 1 and selections from parts 2 and 3) in concerts in Wodonga and Bright, and finish the year (which will have included a choral competition and recordings as well as performances) with wonderful Christmas music in Holy Trinity Cathedral. GEELONG – CHOIR, ORGAN & ORCHESTRA Sunday 9 July, 7.00pm at St Paul’s Church, LaTrobe Terrace Geelong. JS Bach Cantata BWV 147 - Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben (sung in German). Handel Organ Concerto Opus 4 No 4 in F major; plus 2 Motets – 1 a cappella. St Paul’s Choir, Occasional Orchestra and Soloists. Organist – Dion Henman. Conductor – John Brockman. There is no admission charge. CELEBRATION! Sunday 16 July, 3.00pm at Trinity Uniting Church, Black St., Brighton. Merrowyn Deacon will celebrate 10 years at the console of the Grandfather Fincham organ in Trinity Uniting Church with an organ concert of favourite pieces chosen by the congregation. These will include, of course, Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, the ‘Toccata’ from the 5th Symphony by Widor, Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring, the Kanon in D by Pachelbel, the Prelude and "St Anne" Fugue in E flat by JS Bach, Handel's Largo, Albinoni's Adagio and many more. The church is heated for your comfort and afternoon tea will be served after the recital. Admission $15 and $10 concession (Pensioners, Seniors, Students etc). Come and enjoy an afternoon of popular organ music and hear the wonderful sounds of the 1888 Fincham organ, in the beautiful Trinity Uniting Church. WINTER CONCERT AT ST JOHN'S, CAMBERWELL Sunday 16 July, 3.00pm at St John's Anglican Church, 552 Burke Road, Camberwell (just south of the junction). Anthony Halliday (organ) and Festival Brass. Anthony Halliday has given numerous organ recitals, piano recitals and concerto performances throughout Europe and Australasia. He won critical acclaim from the conductors Hiroyuki Iwaki, Elyakum Shapirra, Vanco Cavdarski, Arthur Davidson, Richard Divall and Robert Rosen with whom he appeared as soloist. Festival Brass brings together four professional musicians and music educators who work in and around Melbourne – Jason Reeve (trumpet), Ben O’Callaghan (trumpet), John Gluas (trombone) and Glan Bardwell (trombone). All members of the group hold post-graduate qualifications in performance, teach at several schools in Melbourne and perform regularly together or with local orchestras. This will be a concert of great colour and brilliance. Admission $20 (Concession $15) including post-concert refreshments. Enquiries (M) 0429 331 344. Website: http://www.stjohnscamberwell.org.au 2 SCOTTISH FIDDLERS IN CONCERT Sunday 23 July, 2.30pm at St Aidan's Uniting Church, Duggan Street, North Balwyn (Melway Map 46 F3). St Aidan's Music Society proudly presents the Scottish Fiddlers in concert in a ‘Toe Tapping’ program of wonderful music. Admission $10 including refreshments. Enquiries - Maurice Mathers, 9890 8322. FREDERICK SWANN AT ST PAUL’S CATHEDRAL Sunday 23 July, 7.00pm at St Paul’s Cathedral, Swanston Street, Melbourne. Frederick Swann, the most visible organist in the United States and Chairman of the American Guild of Organists, will give a recital following the 6.00pm Evensong.