Choir & Organ Magazine March - April 2016 Edición anterior

Edward Gardner speaks exclusively to Choir & Organ about his fascination for Janáček's Glagolitic Mass, funding the arts and his plans as the Bergen Philharmonic's dynamic new chief conductor; how new chamber choir Sansara stole the laurels at the London International A Capella Choir Competition; and the organ works of Max Reger. Plus, assessing the legacy of musical polymath Richard Rodney Bennett; John-Paul Buzard provides an organ of colourful vitality for a southern Catholic parish in the USA; how an imaginative community choir project in partnership with Age UK and Bob Chilcott is helping to combat loneliness; charting the history of the Hill organ in St John's, Hyde Park; David Hill suggests ways of attaining good choral balance in the second part of his conducting master class on Verdi's Requiem; Priory Records' Neil Collier brings down the curtain on his Great European Organ series after 30 years; and our Summer Schools & Short Courses supplement.