Of Interest to Organ Enthusiasts

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I am not sure how I came by these old programmes (they may have been in some old organ music I was given) but they may be of interest to organ historians.

The first set is from a souvenir programme of the re-opening of the Grand Organ in the Birmingham Town Hall, 19th January 1933.  If you click on a thumbnail a full size image will load.

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Inside cover with signature of G. D. Cunningham MA, FRAM, FRCO - City Organist probably collected by the original owner of the programme.

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Pages 4 & 5
A view of the Hall and an article about the organ.
[Pages 2 & 3 showed the mayor and his Foreword]

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Pages 6 & 7
The rest of the article.

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Page 8 & 9
The Recital Programme. With Bach's Passacaglia and Liszt's "Ad nos" it was not a brief affair!
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Pages 10 & 11.
A photo of Cunningham and page 1 of the Specification

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Pages 12 & 13
Photos of a bust of Mendelssohn, William Hill (with head gear!) Henry Willis and C. W. Perkins City Organist 1888-1923, and more specification.

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Pages 14 & 15
A photo of the console and more specification.

 

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Page 16

The rest of the specification.

 

 

Next is a programme of 2 afternoon recitals given by Marcel Dupre in 1929.  He was playing the organ in the Auditorium, John Wanamaker, New York.  He signed the programme.

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Dupre also gave a recital in the Tomkins Avenue Church in December 1937 and he signed the front of the programme in pencil.

  

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Finally I have a newspaper cutting about the death of Widor

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