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Each month we release a video performance of a piece of music which has featured in a @thursdaylive.org recital at @stchadsbirm.bsky.social Birmingham. It’s a great opportunity to see what we do at the console which is hidden up in the organ gallery!

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If you are an organist, organ builder, or just a pipe organ aficionado, here's a good place to start on Bluesky! go.bsky.app/NpCGD1Y

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Marking the centenary of the death of Marco Enrico Bossi, here is his Etude Symphonique recorded in 2021. This single-take performance was recorded at the end of a session in which the (then online-only) @thursdaylive.org recital had been filmed in @stchadsbirm.bsky.social. youtu.be/0ehStsc4brU?...

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We have a new Pope! Archbishop Bernard shares a welcome message...

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Details of Thierry Pallesco’s Fantaisie no.6 which I premiered in March’s @thursdaylive.org in @stchadsbirm.bsky.social. With huge thanks to Thierry Pallesco for writing inspiring music and to United Music Publishing Ltd for publishing new organ music. www.paulcarr.co.uk/thierry-pall...

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Very pleased and relieved to have our little cat sitting back on my lap purring away after a day of feline dental work. She seems fine, and in much better condition than my wallet, though undeniably worth every penny. 🐈‍⬛

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A few Bluesky accounts I think you should follow… @thursdaylive.org @sellyparksingers.co.uk @stchadsbirm.bsky.social @royalbirmcons.bsky.social @rcbirmingham.bsky.social Thank you! 😎

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We do have a rehearsal this evening, and after last week’s practice, our Director of Music Paul Carr @organistpaul.bsky.social, has slightly revised this term’s plan, reproduced below and also available on the members’ area of our website - sellyparksingers.co.uk

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Sound the Trumpet Sun 4 May 2025 3pm Music by composers including Bach, Johnson, Spicer and Stanley with a fanfare theme. The 45-minute programme ends with a spectacular transcription of the Main Theme from John Williams’ sound track to Star Wars. Well it will be ‘May the fourth’! Admission free.

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A wonderful recital today by three students from @royalbirmcons.bsky.social Royal Birmingham Conservatoire’s Organ Department. Piotr Maziarz opened the programme with a beautifully poised rendition of Mendelsohn‘s sixth organ Sonata.

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Two days until the next @thursdaylive.org organ recital in @stchadsbirm.bsky.social St Chad’s Cathedral, Birmingham, this month featuring 3 organists, students in the Organ Department at RBC. All welcome! 1:15pm-1:55pm Thursday 1 May. @rcbirmingham.bsky.social @royalbirmcons.bsky.social

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That was a lot of fun! First summer term rehearsal lived up to its name - a beautifully warm evening enjoying singing great music. More next Monday, though as it’s a Bank Holiday the weather and warmth are not guaranteed.

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An honour to play for Solemn Vespers this evening at St Chad’s Cathedral @stchadsbirm.bsky.social on the day of Pope Francis’ funeral.

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The booklet for the Pope’s Funeral Mass www.birminghamdiocese.org.uk/Handlers/Dow...

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A treat to play the iconic organ in St Paul’s Cathedral London @stpaulscathedral.bsky.social again today, accompanying the choir of Abbey Gate College singing Choral Evensong under the brilliant direction of James Andrews.

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All ready for today’s @openuniversity.bsky.social graduation ceremonies in @bridgewaterhall.bsky.social Manchester. #OUfamily #organist #graduation

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Wonderful instruments, great repertoire… my performance diary is here: www.paulcarr.co.uk/diary Perhaps I’ll see you at one of these concerts and recitals!

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In a change to the original programme, we’re delighted to be welcoming three students from @royalbirmcons.bsky.social Organ Department to play May’s @thursdaylive.org organ recital in @stchadsbirm.bsky.social on May 1st at 1:15pm. Details: thursdaylive.org And 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

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The final recital in the series on the two fine new organs in the organ studio at @royalbirmcons.bsky.social yesterday evening was given by Head of Department Dan Moult. Fabulous playing by someone who really knows these unique instruments and how to get the very best out of them. Just wonderful!

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Welcome to Classic FM, Anna Lapwood! ❤️ The acclaimed organist, conductor and TikTok star is joining Classic FM to host three-part miniseries ‘The Royal Albert Hall of Fame’, airing from Friday 18 to Sunday 20 April at 9pm, with catch-up available on @globalplayer.com for 7 days.

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This Sunday, 6 April 2025, Sunday Afternoon Organ Music in Holy Trinity Church Wordsley is an all-Bach programme. What’s not to like? www.paulcarr.co.uk/sunday-after...

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The evening sun on the JW Walker organ case in @stchadsbirm.bsky.social St Chad’s Cathedral Birmingham at the end of a recording session (for the @thursdaylive.org YouTube channel) with David Saint playing Franck’s second Choral. Come and hear it live tomorrow 3 April 1:15pm More: thursdaylive.org

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🇫🇷🎵 RBC's French season continues with Poulenc: La voix humaine on Thu 3 Apr! 🎵🇫🇷 Heard in the intimate version for singer and piano advocated by the composer, La voix humaine is a wonderful opera that speaks to anybody who has loved and lost. Tickets: www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoir...

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Thursday 3 April at 1:15pm Bach, Mendelssohn and Franck at this month’s @thursdaylive.org organ recital given by David Saint, @stchadsbirm.bsky.social’s Director of Music. Admission free. All very welcome! thursdaylive.org for full details.

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Music by Haydn, Mozart, Brahms, Rheinberger, Stanford, Schumann and of course Ireland’s ‘Greater Love’ - also the title of today’s 3pm concert in which I’m accompanying Solihull Chandos Choir and Hampton Singers, both at the organ and in piano duets with the brilliant Iain Jackson.

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There will be an opportunity in August to sing ‘A Season to Sing’ yourself, coached by Joanna Forbes L’Estrange at our Come & Sing event. Details: www.sellyparksingers.co.uk/come-and-sing/

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Organs & Organists starter pack updated… go.bsky.app/NpCGD1Y @katelynemerson.bsky.social @felixhell.bsky.social @michellehorsley.bsky.social @christopherholman.bsky.social @cmwoolmer.bsky.social If you’re an organist but not in the starter pack, feel free to let me know so I can add you. 😎

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Another fun rehearsal this evening and at our breaktime we met Joanna Forbes L’Estrange, composer/arranger of ‘A Season to Sing’ via Zoom, and enjoyed an insight into her life and work, and inspiration behind the piece. www.sellyparksingers.co.uk/concerts/

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Another stunning recital today, this time by Charles Francis at @stchadsbirm.bsky.social hosted by Kent County Organists Association. Exciting, flawless and passionate playing! …and Nathan Laube (see previous post) was also in the audience!

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Enjoyed a simply stunning recital in the organ studio @royalbirmcons.bsky.social yesterday evening given by the incomparable Nathan Laube, artistry, virtuosity and style in abundance!

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Experiencing a perhaps unnecessary amount of joy in discovering the (now very obvious) button which tells my printer to print on both sides of the paper! No more printing one-sided and putting it back in the paper tray, realising it’s upside down, etc. Not a bad Monday morning at the desk at all!

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TODAY! 1:15pm @stchadsbirm.bsky.social Paul Carr @organistpaul.bsky.social plays March’s thursdaylive.org on the fantastic Walker organ. Admission free with retiring collection. All very welcome!

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Lovely to see that this week’s Pipe Dreams radio show (from American Public Media) is rounded off with Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé from my 2011 CD ‘French Flavours’ recorded on the organ of @stchadsbirm.bsky.social www.pipedreams.org/episode/2025...

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Paul Carr @organistpaul.bsky.social is delighted to be giving the first performance of Thierry Pallesco’s Fantaisie no.6 during March’s @thursdaylive.org organ recital @stchadsbirm.bsky.social this week. Read more about Thierry and his music at paulcarr.co.uk/thierry-pallesco-fantaisie-no-6

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2nd March is the Feast of St Chad. In St Chad’s Cathedral it will today be kept as a Solemnity as a Patronal Feast of a Saint overrides a Sunday of Ordinary Time. Most years it falls during Lent. Although in most of our parishes, the Sunday is celebrated, May St Chad pray for us.

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Good rehearsal with @sellyparksingers.co.uk last night, these three movements coming along nicely. So if you’re around the Midlands in June, perhaps make a note in your diary now? Concert: Sat 14 June 2025 at 3pm in St Francis Bournville. The Birmingham premiere of this piece! More details soon. 😎

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The next Sunday Afternoon Organ Music at Holy Trinity Wordsley is next week: Sunday 2 March 2015, 3:00pm. Admission is free and views of the organ console (& pedal board) are projected onto a screen so you can see all the action. Programme below. Details: paulcarr.co.uk/sunday-afternoon-organ-music/

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In January’s @thursdaylive.org recital @organistpaul.bsky.social played a transcription of Greig’s Peer Gynt Suite - released today over on our YouTube channel is ‘Morning’ from that Suite on the organ of @stchadsbirm.bsky.social Go and have a listen! youtu.be/YkigEunD-Lw?...

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Wonderful weekend singing in @salisburycathedral.bsky.social accompanied by the amazing @organistpaul.bsky.social

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It’s been a long wait, since the (other) 2019 fire, to hear the glorious sounds of the landmark instrument in St John the Divine, New York, New York. It was worth the wait. A little longer to wait until the famous State Trumpet returns under the rose window though. youtu.be/1QjGSiMNHAs?...

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The Father Willis organ of Salisbury Cathedral is extremely fine. Really enjoyed getting reacquainted with it this morning preparing for playing at the weekend’s services, which started with this evening’s Choral Evensong.

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