Re-Dedication
of the organ |
With the
organ refurbishment complete, thoughts and efforts
now turn to the task of paying for it. At the end
of August 2005, the fund to finance the work stood
at £8.600: this includes a share of the proceeds
from the Fete, a grant of £1,000 from the Garfield
Weston Foundation, several private donations and one
from the Conservative Association............(this
allowed the project to proceed).
There is a
need to raise another £10,000 and our annual
Gift Day this year which was held on on the 3rd of
September - was used soley to target reduction of
this debt. It was also decided to tie in the Gift
Day with an open Church weekend making the weekend
one of celebration, marking the return of the Organ
to its former glory.
The Church would be open from 10 am through til 5pm
on both days, and would be richly decorated with flowers
following partly upon a wedding that had taken place
the previous week.
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A varied programme of music
was implemented on both days featuring the talants of local
musicians who, it must be said,
produced music recitals that would have been perfectly at home
had they have been played in any of our great Cathedrals. |
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Organists for Saturday 3rd September.
10.00 am Michael Evans
Michael studied at the Royal Acadamy
of music. He is organist at St Augustine's East Hendred and
Holy Trinity West Hendred and is also Choirmaster at St Mary's
Chieveley. He has also played in St Edward's Cathedral Jerusalem.
Michael teaches piano and organ and was previously Schools
Music Advisor for Oxfordshire. |
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noon Dr Stephen Holmes
Stephen studied the organ at the Hulme
Grammar School Oldham, and at Oxford University with Jane
Freeman. From 1980 to 1984 he was organist of All Souls South
Ascot. In 1987 he accompanied the Southern Chamber Choir on
their tour to Gibraltar and gave a recital in the cathedral.
Since 1993 he has been organist and Choirmaster of St Michael
and All Angels Lamboum. He often gives recitals in Newbury. |
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pm Hugo Kennard (Young Musician)
Hugo was a chorister at Chichester Cathedral
and subsequently was top Organ Scholar at Charterhouse from
2000 - 2003. He is now involved in the racing world and combines
this with playing the organ atSt Michaels and All Angels Lambourn. |
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pm Katrina Easterling
Katrina studied the organ at the age
of 11 and after four months in 1973 she became organist at
All Saints East Garston as well as at St James the Greater
at Eastbury and at Woodlands St Mary. Katrina continued organ
studies at Addington Palace and on returning to the area after
university, played at St Thomas' Woolton Hill. She has played
on Christmas Day at East Garston almost every year for the
last 22 years. |
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4.00pm Alistair Davis
Alistair is organist at St John's Stockcross,
He gives an annual summer concert at Stockcross and plays
in regular lunchtime recitals at St Nicolas Newbury. |
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The
Organists for Sunday 4th September.
11.30am Nancy Leyland
Nancy is the resident organist at All
Saints, East Garston, but she also plays at St Michael and
All Angels Lambourn, at St James the Greater Eastbury and
at Woodlands St Mary, |
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2.00 pm Mrs Elaine Rumble
Mrs Elaine Rumble has been organist
atWickam and Welford for well over ten years. She plays also
at St Lawrence Hungerford and Chilton Foliat and at the Roman
Catholic churches of The Sacred Heart at Lambourn and Our
Lady of Lourdes at Hungerford.
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4.00
pm Susan Holmes (Young Musician)
Susan is a pupil at St Bartholomew's
School in Newbury, and will be taking her GCSEs next year.
She is studying the violin with Jonathan Burnett and the piano
with Audrey Harington Hawes. She plays with the West Berkshire
String Orchestra. She passed her Grade 8 piano examination
last December and hopes to make a career in music as an accompanist.
Her father is the organist at St Michael and All Angels Lambourn. |
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Floral
Decorations by |
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Diana
Pilling and Sue Briant |
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Conducted
by the Rev. Tony Cumberlidge; the two day celebration culminated
in a Special Service consisting of well-known hymns and music,
after which the evening was rounded off with a glass of wine
accompanied by cheese and biscuits. |
Photos Ken Tarbox
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