Published articles

As some of you who alight on my site may never read Organists’ Review (you should! visit www.iao.org.uk/organists-review/) it occurred to me that to post my regular column Something old, something new might be of interest as these articles point the spotlight on recent interesting organ projects in the UK.
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I am grateful to the IAO for giving me permission to post these articles here; copyright remains with the IAO. I hope you enjoy reading about some of the imaginative and first-class work which is being carried out in the British Isles, despite an appalling lack of funds and a government, church and education system increasingly peopled by Philistines.

May 2010
All the colours of the rainbow
February 2010
Llandaff Cathedral
November 2009
Mr Downes' Delight?
St Albans Cathedral revisted
August 2009
London's best kept secret
St Ethelreda's, Holborn
May 2009
A mighty midget in Mansfield Woodhouse
February 2009
A Hill refreshed
Bangor Cathedral
November 2008
Little and large
St Paul's Cathedral; St Giles' Cripplegate
August 2008
Thirty-three and fancy-free
St John’s College Oxford
Jesus College Cambridge
May 2008
In and out of the box
St Helen’s Norwich; Bulwell, Nottingham
Uppingham School
February 2008
Imagination triumphs where space is limited
Small instruments in small spaces
November 2007
The Organs of Kenneth Jones
August 2007
A tale of two chapels
Glenalmond College, Scotland
Trinity Hall, Cambridge
May 2007
Hamburg comes to Marlborough
The new Beckerath instrument in
Marlborough College chapel
February 2007
West end wonders
Arundel Cathedral
Cheltenham Ladies’ College
November 2006
St Matthew’s, Northampton
August 2006
A tale of two cases
St Michael’s, Linby
St Peter’s, St Albans
May 2006
Beauty and the beast
Glasgow University Memorial Chapel
Bridlington Priory
February 2006
New instruments
Nigawa Gakuin School, Japan
All Saints’, Leamington, Hastings
St Joseph’s RC Church, Rugely
November 2005
A pair of nag’s heads
Ponsonby Baptist Church, Auckland, NZ
St George’s RC Church, York
August 2005
St Alban’s Church, Copenhagen
Meeting House, Cape Cod, USA
St Mary’s, Streatley
 
Organ Building, Volume 7
An appreciation of Frank Bradbeer’s impact on organ building   reproduced from Organ Building volime 7 by kind permission of the Institute of British Organ Building
Audience Guide to the RAH Organ
An essay printed in a Royal Albert Hall organ recital programme