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Music Matters: An organ fest for a silent Easter

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An organ fest for a silent Easter

BBC Radio 3 - Music Matters, An organ fest for a silent Easter

With churches closed and organs silent this Easter, Kate Molleson presents an organ fest.

With churches closed and organs silent this Easter, Kate Molleson presents a Music Matters mini organ fest.

For many of us, Easter means organs and churches and the sombre tones of Good Friday moving to the joy of Easter Sunday.   But this year, Easter is pretty much cancelled, and churches are shut.  So organs around the world are silent - but not on Music Matters:  Kate Molleson presents a mini organ fest, with contributions from Glasgow-based organist John Butt, who demonstrates his own home digital organ,  and Canadian organist Rachel Mahon, who looks forward to when Coventry Cathedral is again unlocked, and she can take up her post as Music Director.     And Nicholas Thistlethwaite talks about his new book about organ building in Georgian and Victorian England, a time which saw a transformation from small pipe organs to the mighty Town Hall organs of the mid nineteenth century.

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