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Dr. Thalben-Ball, who was appointed acting organist of the Temple Church in 1919, when he was still in his early twenties, and who succeeded Sir Walford Davies as organist there in 1923, is one of the first half-dozen great organists of the world. He has played on the Continent, in America and South Africa, at Westminster Abbey, and in many of the cathedrals in England. On June 16, 1934, with Sir Walter Alcock and G. D. Cunningham , he opened the BBC concert organ.