Dear OrgAlt and SICM list members,

There's always hidden good news going on in the Canadian organ scene, but
the last few days have been especially good, so I thought I'd let you in on
three things:


1) The first award of the RCCO Waterloo-Wellington Centre's Barrie Cabena
Music Scholarship has been awarded to St. Mary's native Christina Hutten,
alumnae of church music studies at Wilfrid Laurier University (including
organ with Marlin Nagtegaal) and now studying at Arizona State University.
On July 12, Ms Hutten will be playing an 8:00 p.m. recital at St. John the
Evangelist Anglican Church in Kitchener, where her former teacher is
Director of Music.
For more information... http://www.opus-two.com/rccow-w.html


2) Two entrants in the 20th Osborne Organ Competition of the Summer
Institute of Church Music have advanced to compete in the final round, to be
held Tuesday July 8th, 7:30pm at St. George's Memorial Church in Oshawa.
The finalists are Matthew Coons (Hamilton, ON) and Michael Oldaker (London,
ON).  The Osborne Organ Competition, held biennially since 1970, was
partially endowed in 1975 by a gift from SICM founder Dr. Stanley L.
Osborne, and is currently being supported through the "Holy SONG!" touring
program.  1982 competition prizewinner Michael Bloss (who is principal organ
instructor at the Institute in its 39th session, 6-11 July) will chair the
final round jury.  Competition co-ordinator John Leek and jurors Brent
Fifield and John Laing reviewed the entries and selected the two chosen to
be finalists.  For more information... http://sicm.ca


3) The American Guild of Organists has named two Canadians and one American
the 2008 winners of its Biennial Prizes in Composition.  The Canadians,
Stephen R. Fraser and Rachel Laurin were both prizewinners in the previous
(2006) cycle of the awards.

AGO DISTINGUISHED COMPOSER AWARD... Stephen Paulus (St. Paul, Minn.)
Paulus' distinguished body of organ and choral work includes three organ
concertos and several solo works, masses, motets and other works performed
by the Robert Shaw Chorale, Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the Los Angeles
Master Chorale; and he has been prolific in creating symphonic, chamber,
band and operatic works.

AGO/ECS PUBLISHING AWARD IN CHORAL COMPOSITION... Stephen R. Fraser (Oshawa,
ON)
Mr. Fraser studied first at the University of Toronto with John Tuttle, then
Masters degrees at the Eastman School of Music and Yale University.  He is
past winner of the Toronto RCCO Student Competition, the Fort Wayne Organ
Competition and an invitee to compete at Chartres, and currently studying
improvisation in Paris with Sophie-Véronique Chauchefer-Choplin and Thierry
Escaich.

AGO AWARD IN ORGAN COMPOSITION... Rachel Laurin (Ottawa, ON)
Ms. Laurin studied principally at the Montréal Conservatoire with Raymond
Daveluy, whom she also assisted at L'Oratoire St-Joseph from 1986 to 2002.
More recently she served as titular organist of the Basilique Notre-Dame in
Ottawa from 2002 until 2006.  Her more than 50 works have been performed and
recorded in North America, Europe, Asia and South Africa, and her
publications are with Éditions Lucarel, Europart-Music, Doberman, and Wayne
Leupold Editions.

For more information... http://www.agohq.org/bulletin

-----
Christopher Dawes, Director
Canada's Summer Institute of Church Music

Dear all,

St. Thomas’s Anglican Church in Toronto is promoting three recitals celebrating the addition of a new Festival Trumpet stop to its organ.  Details are on the attached flier.

-CD

Church told to play pipes of peace as organists get workers’ rights

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article3399568.ece

Hello friends,

A number of weeks ago I wrote to many of you regarding a pipe organ that is
currently for sale.  The organ is presently housed in Park Street United
Church, Chatham, Ontario, and that congregation has amalgamated with my
congregation.

I thought I would send along an update.  The Park St. Church building has
been sold and the closing date is January 4th, 2007.  The organ is still for
sale.  At this point, the church would simply like to see the organ put to
good use, and is prepared to entertain any reasonable offer.  The church
would also entertain a financing arrangement (i.e. payment over several
years).

Pictures and the specification are available at:
www.Kentpres.org/ParkStOrgan

The organ is able to be played in its present location until the end of the
calendar year.  Then, if it has not been sold, it will need to be removed
and stored.

If anyone has any leads, or wishes to play the organ, please let me know.
Hopefully we can find a good home for this fine instrument soon.

Thanks!
Michael Brooks







Rev. Michael Brooks, Minister
St Andrew's United Church
85 William Street South
Chatham, Ontario
N7M 4S5
Tel:  519 352 0010
Fax:  519 352 0379

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Dear Friends,

I want to make you aware of an organ that is now for sale, currently housed
in Park Street United Church, Chatham.  Details and pictures are now on-line
at:

www.kentpres.org/ParkStOrgan

The asking price at present is $125,000, with the buyer responsible for
removal and transportation.

If you manage any organ-related email lists, I would appreciate it if you
could let me know if this message could be sent to your lists, even if there
would be a cost for this service.

Thanks.

Michael Brooks







Rev. Michael Brooks, Minister
St Andrew's United Church
85 William Street South
Chatham, Ontario
N7M 4S5
Tel:  519 352 0010
Fax:  519 352 0379

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From: RCCO [mailto:rcco@...]
Sent: August 23, 2006 12:57
To: RCCO
Subject: Calgary: Ahrend Organ Inauguration

University of Calgary

Alberta, Canada

Following the installation of the new organ by Jürgen Ahrend Orgelbau in the Rozsa Centre, the University of Calgary will hold a Festival and Symposium in September this year.

-----

Festival: Sep 22 - 30, 2006

http://www.ffa.ucalgary.ca/rozsa-organ/schedule/schedule.php

Performers include: John Butt, Simon Preston, Luc Beauséjour, Neil Cockburn, Janet Youngdahl, and the Calgary Bach Festival Orchestra and Chorus.

-----

Symposium: Sep 28-Oct 1, 2006

http://www.ffa.ucalgary.ca/rozsa-organ/schedule/symposium.php

Keynote speakers: John Butt - University of Glasgow, Scotland; Darcy Kuronen - Curator of Musical Instruments, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Paper presenters from Canada, USA, Ireland, and Switzerland

Symposium topics: The North German organ and its repertoire; The Cantos Music Foundation collection of Musical Instruments - http://www.cantos.ca

-----

Master-classes: Sep 27, 28, and 30, 2006

http://www.ffa.ucalgary.ca/rozsa-organ/schedule/masterClasses.php

Master-classes will be given by John Butt, John Grew, and Luc Beauséjour

Students are invited to apply to participate in the classes. An application form is available at the above web link.

-----

For information about concert tickets, Symposium registration, or master-class participation, please visit our web site.

http://www.ffa.ucalgary.ca/rozsa-organ/home/index.php

 

Regards,
Sharon Adamson
General Manager
Royal Canadian College of Organists
202-204 St. George St.
Toronto, ON M5R 2N5
Tel: 416-929-6400  Fax: 416-929-2265
Website: www.rcco.ca

I have been diagnosed with terminal cancer and must end my career as a church
organist. I
look forward to my next life, so please take my previous statement in that
Light. However, I
am going to sell my organ music on eBay in order to help my wife and three
children still at
home and want this group to know about it in case anyone needs a certain item I
might still
have. My most recent listing is eBay listing #190015173851 — the complete 42
volume set of
the Concordia Hymn Prelude Series. I also have the Index to those volumes
listed. PLEASE
TAKE A LOOK AT MY COMPLETE LISTINGS. I will be adding more soon. I hope this
blatant
advertising does not offend anyone, but it's the truth and I do want the music
to be used.
Thanks! Peter

July 5, 2006: Aaron Tan awarded first prize in 19th Biennial Osborne Organ Competition

When the distinguished jury returned to the sanctuary of St. George's Memorial Anglican Church in Oshawa from an unusually long period of deliberation after a thrilling and intriguing presentation from three of Canada’s finest young organists, Osborne Organ Competition Co-ordinator Dr. Mark Toews announced that University of Toronto engineering student Aaron Tan went home with the First Prize portion of the Florence and Stanley Osborne Scholarship in Church Music, $1500.  The Scholarship is awarded to Canada’s finest young organists in support of their church musical studies by means of a biennial organ competition in even-numbered years by Canada’s Summer Institute of Church Music.  Montrealer and current doctoral candidate at New York’s Julliard School of Music Isabelle Demers was awarded the Scholarship’s second prize, $750.

AARON TAN received his ARCT (Associateship) in Piano Performance from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Canada at the age of 12. He then went on to earn his LTCL (Licentiate) diploma in Piano Performance from Trinity College of Music (London, England) when fourteen. At fifteen years old, he successfully completed his FTCL (Fellowship) diploma, also from Trinity College. In January 2004, he completed his ARCT diploma in Violin Performance.  Aaron performs regularly in the Greater Toronto Area, and has also given concerts in Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, and Switzerland.  In 2004, he began classical organ studies with Dr. John Tuttle, and has so far been a recipient of the Barwell Piano Student Scholarship a winner of the Toronto Competition for Young Organists, and a student of the Organ Academy at Stratford Summer Music, where he studied with James Edward Goettsche, official organist to the Vatican Basilica of St. Peter, in 2005.  Aaron, who currently serves as organist and choirmaster at Church of the Ascension (Anglican) in Toronto, is twenty years old, and has recently completed his third year of the Engineering Science Program at the University of Toronto. 

From an impressive field of semifinal applicants four finalists were chosen (by means of  recorded performances) by a jury convened by Competition Co-ordinator Mark Toews, and including Dr. Toews, Thomas Fitches and Janet Macfarlane Peaker.  Toronto University of Toronto music student Konrad Harley also qualified, and competed as a finalist in the competition.  One other finalist selected to advance to the final withdrew in May.

The jury of the Final Round of the 19th Biennial competition was chaired by Paul Halley (English-born, Canadian educated and American resident grammy-award winning composer and former Organist of  New York’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine), and two other distinguished Canadian musicians, Douglas Bodle (Organist and Director of Music at Toronto’s St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church and organ and vocal instructor at the Faculty of Music of the University of Toronto), and Elaine Broughton (prolific teacher, conductor and church musician, and Royal Conservatory of Music national examiner).

The prizes of the Osborne Organ Competition were endowed in 1972 by Dr. and Mrs. Stanley Osborne in support of young organists studying organ and church music at an advanced level.  It alternates in even-numbered years with a similar  competition sponsored by the Royal Canadian College of Organists in odd-numbered years, and it differs from its sister competition principally in its devotion to the art of leading congregational singing from the organ.  In addition to a single required selection by J.S. Bach (in 2006 the Leipzig Chorale Fantasia, “Komm Heiliger Geist, Herr Gott” BWV 651, and a Canadian work of the competitor’s choice, each competitor leads the audience in the singing of a hymn (in 2006 “My Soul is Filled with Joy” to the tune ‘Deer Park’).  The jury weighs the strengths of the finalists’ performances and reaches a decision on how (and whether) to award the prizes, and in certain cases, how to apportion the available prize money to recognise the achievements of the finalists.

The Osborne Organ Competition Fund of Canada’s Summer Institute of Church Music has recently been opened to receive donations from those wishing to support the extraordinary young people for whom it was created.  For more information on making a tax-deductible donation to the Osborne Organ Competition Fund, visit the Osborne pages of www.sicm.ca, the online home of Canada’s Summer Institute of Church Music or call (416) 356-3138.

---

From: Joan Westcott [mailto:westcottj@...]
Sent: April 19, 2006 01:14
To: info@...
Subject: director of music, first united

Hello Chris Dawes

I am attaching a copy of the posting for the position of Director of Music at First United with the hope that you can assist us in getting this information to the music community.  Can you include this in your electronic newsletter?

Thank you for whatever assistance you can provide

Joan Westcott, Chair, Search Committee, First United Church, Waterloo

Its was probably thirty years ago that I read an advertisement in
The Diapason for a small organ kit produced by Flentrop.  I was in
college then and the idea of having one of them fascinated.  Lately
I've been able to establish that the Flentrop hasn't produced these
for about 20 years, though they tell me the ones they shipped to the
USA occasionally come up for sale.  Does anyone know anything about
these?

Also, there is a Scottish firm called Lammermuir which is producing
small practice organ kits that can be assembled by the buyer.  They
certainly look handsome on the company's website.  Does anyone know
anything about these?  Reliability?  Clear directions?  Sound of the
finished instruments?

I'm an organist for an abbey church and I have a 3-manual Casavant
to play as well as a Steinway concert grand.  Now I need a
harpsichord for my living room too.  One day I hope to buy a Hubbard
harpsichord and finish it myself.  I guess I'm just hooked on the
idea of building my own musical instrument.

Thanks, everyone.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neil Cockburn [mailto:cockburn@...]
> Sent: May 25, 2006 12:08
> To: Neil Cockburn
> Subject: Call for Papers: Please post to list
>
> CFP: University of Calgary, Canada
> Symposium: The North German Organ and its Music: Sep 28-Oct 1, 2006
> -----
>
> In the summer of 2006 a 2-manual and pedal organ by Jürgen
> Ahrend in the North German style will be installed at the
> University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
> An inaugural festival celebrating the installation will be
> held in September 2006.
> http://www.ffa.ucalgary.ca/rozsa-organ/home/index.php
>
> Included in the festival will be a Symposium to be held from
> Thursday September 28 to Sunday October 1, 2006.
> -Lectures, papers, and presentations will take place at the
> Cantos Music Foundation: http://www.cantos.ca -Concerts will
> be given on the Jürgen Ahrend organ at the University of Calgary
>
> Keynote speaker: Dr. John Butt (Gardiner Chair of Music,
> Glasgow University, Scotland) Performances will be given by:
> Dr. John Butt; Neil Cockburn; and the Calgary Bach Festival
> Chorus and Orchestra with Janet Youngdahl, soprano, and Simon
> Preston, conductor
>
> General themes for the Symposium may include, but are not limited to:
> -17th- and early 18th-century North German organs and organ
> music -Issues of performance practice in organ music of the
> above period -Pedagogy of the above repertoire -Related
> currents in 17th- and early 18th-century keyboard instruments
> and repertoire  - in Germany and other lands -Research
> related to the instruments in the Cantos Music Foundation
> collection: http://www.cantos.ca/collection/collectionchecklist.html
>
> -----
> Individual papers, written in English, on these or any other
> aspect of related themes, should last no more than 20 minutes.
> Abstracts (ca. 250 words) should be submitted by mail or by e-mail to:
>
> Neil Cockburn
> Cantos Music Foundation Organ Scholar
> Department of Music
> University of Calgary
> 2500 University Drive NW, CHF217
> Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4
> Canada
>
> e-mail: cockburn@...
>
> Deadline for receipt of proposals: June 15, 2006.
> The conference's program will be announced by July 15, 2006.
>

http://www.petitiononline.com/dbs201bl/

 

Hello, all:
This just in from a colleague in Italy.  Who said the organist world was
lacking in high intrigue?
The article below is a media account of Rome's response to an Italian
organist MASSIMILANO MUZZI, who is falsely claiming (and seemingly building
quite a career as a concert organist) to be organist to the Pope (a position
which, as the article confirms, James Edward Goettsche has held since 1989).
-CD

Please give the bigger diffusion as possible to the biggest scandal in the
organ world:
An italian organist MASSIMILIANO MUZZI called himself as the Pope organist,
and many concert institution decided to invite him, just for that false
title, in fact as we know the Vatican ufficial organist is actually Mr
Goettsche. Please help us to stop this silly thing, and to give a lesson to
everyone who think that the organ world is not serious.
Thank you
-Eugenio Maria Fagiani
LINK CORRELATI
* Si spacciava per organista del PapaIl Vaticano: "E' un impostore"
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falso-organista-vaticano.html>
PUBBLICITÀ
Un musicista romano organizzava tour all'estero col falso titolo
La Santa Sede: "Dal 1989 il titolare è James Edward Goettsche"
Si spacciava per organista del Papa
Il Vaticano: "E' un impostore"

ROMA - Gira il mondo con un passaporto dello Stato del Vaticano,
partecipando a concerti e festival di musica sacra come organista ufficiale
- di recente nomina - di papa Benedetto XVI. Massimiliano Muzzi musicista lo
è davvero, ma quel titolo non gli appartiene: l'unico incaricato di suonare
nelle più importanti cerimonie liturgiche a San Pietro è il Maestro James
Edward Goettsche. Dal 1989 è lui che accompagna le messe e le liturgie di
Giovanni Paolo II prima, e di Papa Ratzinger oggi.

La precisazione arriva direttamente dalla Santa Sede, nelle parole del
cardinale Francesco Marchisano, arciprete della Basilica di San Pietro,
costretto a diffondere un avviso diretto a tutti gli organizzatori di
concerti a livello internazionale per metterli in guardia
dall'intraprendente Muzzi.

Lui, giovane musicista romano, aveva già programmato tourneé in Germania,
Nuova Zelanda e Stati Uniti, fregiandosi del titolo di "organista di Papa
Benedetto XVI". Difficile, per gli organizzatori, rifiutare la proposta di
fronte a referenze del genere: Muzzi, probabilmente, pensava di aver trovato
una comoda, prestigiosa scorciatoia per raggiungere una ben remunerata
celebrità.

La questione, però, è venuta alla luce quando la Catholic News Service,
agenzia dei vescovi degli Stati Uniti, ha cominciato a chiedere spiegazioni
al Vaticano sull'organista italiano: a insospettire era soprattutto la
documentazione presentata da Muzzi, ora bollata dalla Santa Sede come "non
autentica".

"Ogni altra persona che rivendica simili titoli o meriti è da considerarsi
un usurpatore", afferma il cardinale Marchisano nel difendere la posizione
dell'organista ufficiale Goettsche, che, dal canto suo, non esclude di
promuovere un'azione legale in sua difesa.

(22 maggio 2006)

SUMMER INSTITUTE OF CHURCH MUSIC
37th Session at Trafalgar Castle School, Whitby
Sunday 2 July - Friday 7 July 2006

Paul Halley, Visiting Scholar
Christopher Dawes, Director

Founded by Stanley L. Osborne in 1970, Canada's Summer Institute of Church Music has welcomed hundreds of church musicians from across Canada and beyond, as well as the top performers, teachers and thinkers in the field to a week of study, fellowship and rejuvenation. 

SICM is delighted to welcome Paul Halley into the role of Visiting Organ and Choral Scholar.  The four-time grammy-winning composer served as Director of Music and Organist to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City for thirteen years, as well as keyboardist with the Paul Winter Consort.  He is currently Director of Music at Trinity Episcopal Church in Torrington, CT, Artistic Director of the non-profit choral organisation Joyful Noise, Inc., and Creative Director of Pelagos Music Inc. a self-founded publishing, recording and management company.

Based in the majestic 19th century Trafalgar Castle School on beautiful grounds in downtown Whitby, SICM offers daily chapel services, reading sessions and classes in organ and choral skills, ideas sessions and discussions, worship services, concerts and social events in an informal setting addressing the church musical arts in our time and seeking to help those who care about them to reach the highest standards.  Among highlights in 2006 are sessions on leadership by Andrew Donaldson, in liturgical movement by Alexandra Caverly-Lowery, and Musicians' Health by Barbara Paull of the Stouffville Musicians' Clinic.  The Great SICM Hymn Challenge (a masterclass in leading congregational singing from the keyboard), the final round of the 19th biennial Osborne Organ Competition, the innovative Crucible Service, a gala organ recital by Paul Halley and closing Community Choral Concert by the SICM faculty and students.

Joining Halley on SICM's 2006 faculty are Andrew Donaldson (President of the Hymn Society of North America and Canada), liturgical movement artist and spiritual director Alexandra Caverly-Lowery, pianist/songwriter Bev Foster, organist Mark Toews, choral clinician Lori-Anne Dolloff and SICM Director Christopher Dawes.  Music Plus of Kitchener will offer a resident musical retail display, and with the Canadian Choral Centre and Pelagos Music, supply music used in the week's sessions.

Combined tuition and accommodation/meals for 5 days and nights costs just $480 if registered before June 1st.  Tuition-only arrangements and partial-week attendance rates are available.  For more information or to register online visit http://www.sicm.ca, or call (416) 356-3138.

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From: Richard Birney-Smith [mailto:birney-smith@...]
Sent: April 16, 2006 21:10
To: John Gartshore; David Montgomery; Roland Packer; Michael Bloss; Dr. Christopher Dawes; Andrew Asbil; Barbara Sheppard; Pauline Head; Bill Bowie; Bill Hawthorne; John Rose; Brent Fifield; Michael Patterson; The Rt. Rev. Michael Curry; Bill Thomas; Jim Sandilands; Jim McKay; The Very Rev. Peter Wall; Steven Mackison; Wilson & Louise Barry; Leslie Smith; Bruce Kirkpatrick Hill; Alan Barthel; John Campbell; Roger C. Bond; John Tuttle; The Rt. Rev D. Ralph Spence; Michael Jarvis
Subject: Positive pipe organ for sale; please forward as widely as possible

Positive Pipe Organ for sale

 

Facade from above - doors open

(more photos below)

 

Builder

Karl Wilhelm

Mont St-Hilaire, Québec, Canada

voicing by Christoph Linde

completed in December, 1973

 

Description

One manual portable positive pipe organ with pedalboard

Manual compass:  54 notes (Ebony topped and fronted naturals, bone-topped sharps)

Pedal compass:  30 notes (White oak naturals, sharps topped with light-brown hardwood  (possibly rosewood or padauk)

White oak case with removable doors

 

Manual Specification

8'  Holzgedackt

4'  Rohrflöte

2' Prinzipal

1 1/3'  Quint (may also be played as treble half stop d1:f3)

 

Pedal specification

Pedal is coupled to bottom thirty manual notes

 

Dimensions

Case height:  48.5"

Case length:  56.25"

Case width:   28"   (case: 25.75"  plus 2.75 stopknob protrusion)

Maximum floor space with pedalboard and blower:  91"x62"

Minimum  floor space with pedalboard and blower:  74"x62"

 

Other information

Keyboard, pedalboard, music rack and blower detach for moving

Two iron bars supplied to aid in lifting

Two tuning cones included

Organ may be played with doors open, closed or removed

A=440 Herz at 20ºC (68º F);  tuned in equal temperament

Manual may be transposed to A=415; pedalboard does not transpose.

Laukhuff blower (less than ten years old), enclosed in insulated box, is virtually silent.

2006 replacement value:  $75,000 - $80,000  Cdn.

The organ is being sold by the original owner.

 

This organ would be ideal for a church awaiting delivery of a larger instrument. 

It could likely be resold for the purchase price or more.

It would be perfect for an ancillary chapel and is a splendid orchestral continuo instrument.

It is a fine practice instrument for home, school, or studio.

 

Fair market price:  $30,000 Cdn (will include a thorough inspection and regulation)

Delivery not included -  If desired, professional movers are available who are familiar with the instrument. 

 

 

Contact: Richard Birney-Smith

105 Victoria Street

Dundas, Ontario, Canada

L9H 2C1

 

905 628-4533

 

NOTE:  Please forward as widely as possible

   

 

Keyboard view

 

 

Facade - doors closed

 

Blower view

 

 

Facade from above - doors removed

 

Larger versions of these photos are available upon request.

 

 

 

 

birney-smith@...

www.coastaltravelpackage.com/rbs

 

 

my daughter's boutique: www.ellenoire.com

my faith community:   www.theredeemer.ca  

 

 

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From: simpsonandwatson [mailto:5271174@...]
Sent: March 31, 2006 16:21
To: Chris Dawes
Subject: CBC As It Happens story on lead content in organ pipes

Mar 24, 2006 - As It Happens - CBC Radio

Audio Available:

(At the 22 minute mark of part 3):  Listen to Part 3 of As It Happens

ILLEGAL PIPE ORGANS    Duration: 00:06:06
The expression, 'getting the lead out,' and church-organ music aren't generally two subjects that are mentioned in the same breath. But British organ builders worry that new EU regulations surrounding the lead content in organ pipes will have their industry breathing its last.

The new law from Brussels is aimed at restricting the use of hazardous materials in electric equipment. Church organs use electricity to create the wind that blows through their pipes. And those pipes, which have been made the same way for centuries, contain more than the zero-point-one per cent lead content allowed.

Doug Levey is a spokesman for the Institute of British Organ Building. He is in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk.

 

 

 

Due to copyright issues, AIH audio is available on CBC.ca without music. This means there will be a few gaps in the program--short spaces between interviews, and longer ones where a cut of music was played on the original broadcast.

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Adair [mailto:andrew.timothy.adair@...]
> Sent: March 19, 2006 20:14
> To: andrew.timothy.adair@...
> Subject: Fwd: FW: Petition
>
> Hello all,
>
> Please read the message below.
>
> ATA
>
>
>
> >The website for more information is www.pipes4organs.org
> >
> >Dear all,
> >
> >
> >Please do take the time to read this notice and sign the petition.
> >
> >
> >I have just heard about a new EU Directive which will limit
> the dumping
> >of electronic circuit boards etc into landfill sites which seems
> >perfectly reasonable. However there is a real threat to pipe
> organs if
> >they contain any form of electrical power, which most do to
> provide the
> >air to make the pipes sound. The problem arises because of
> the use of
> >lead in the manufacture of organ pipes. The use of lead is very
> >necessary and contributes to the unique sound of the pipe
> organ. Organ
> >pipes present no threat to the environment as their life span is
> >measured in centuries AND they are always recycled.
> >
> >If nothing is done then it will become illegal to build organs in
> >Europe on 1st July! Can you imagine our great Cathedrals
> without organs
> >let alone the quaint village church or huge concert halls!
> >
> >I urge the DTI and
> >the EU Commission to modify the drafting of the Directive
> Regulations
> >to prevent this unintended anomaly
> >
> >
> >Please do take time to add your name to the petition....this
> is a very
> >real threat and it would be quite loony to let it happen. Please
> >forward it to anyone you know who might be able to help
> >too.....especially if they be members of large organizations
> such as Universities etc!
> >
> >
> >Thanks for your support
>
>

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Please circulate, especially to advanced students)

The Summer Institute of Church Music has awarded the Florence and Stanley Osborne Scholarship in Church Music by means of an Organ Competition biennially since 1972: its laureates are the finest young performers Canada has ever produced and it has disbursed thousands of dollars worth of support to students pursuing advanced study in Church Music.

Entrants must be Canadian citizens under the age of 30 on January 1st 2006, and must never have been awarded first prize in any previous Osborne Organ Competition.  An semi-final taped round will narrow entrants to a short list of two or three, who will compete in the final round on Wednesday July 5th at St. George's Anglican Church in Oshawa, Ontario during the Institute's 37th Session. 

First Prize is $1500 and second is $750: these prizes will be awarded at the discretion of a jury chaired by SICM's visiting Organ Scholar, Paul Halley. Beginning with this Session the Competition Co-ordinator is Dr. Mark Toews, Director of Music at Lawrence Park Community Church in Toronto and former President of the Royal Canadian College of Organists.

The 2006 brochure is attached.  NOTE THAT THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF THE APPLICATION FORM AND OTHER MATERIALS FOR THE SEMI-FINAL ROUND HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO APRIL 15 DUE TO A PRINTING DELAY.

Visit www.sicm.ca and follow the Osborne link for full details on repertoire and other requirements, as well as the history of the competition, and most of its past winners and jury chairs.