by G. D. Cunningham from the Town Hall, Birmingham G. D. Cunningham was appointed organist to the City of Birmingham in 1925 and shortly afterwards organist to the University of Birmingham. Both the instruments which he plays, the famous Birmingham Town Hall organ and the four-manual instrument in the Great Hall of the University, are among the finest of their kind. Cunningham has been an organist practically all his life. At the Royal Academy of Music he won the Henry Smart Scholarship for organ playing, and while studying at the Academy was appointed organist at the Congregational Church, West Hampstead. In 1901 he became organist at Alexandra Palace, London, being chosen from about seventy candidates. Further appointments which he has held are those of organist at St. James's Church, iMuswell Hill-where the beautiful Harrison organ was built to his specification-at Holy Trinity Church. Stroud Green, and at St. Alban's Church, Holborn.