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June 2014
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1 Sun
3pm - 5pm St Stephen's, Willoughby
Hymn Festival with Philip Fraser
$5 and $2
Afternoon tea
9.30 At Hunters Hill - the closest Sydney Harbour ferry being Woolwich - there is the historic church building of the Anglican Parish of All Saints. It houses a well restored and working Bevington pipe organ, unique to Australia.
The Anglican Parish of Hunters Hill invites you to join them each Sunday at 9:30am for a traditional Anglican Sung Eucharist. This coming Sunday, 1st June at the 9:30am service, a combined church and community choir of over 35 singers will present Haydn's Missa brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo.
If you enjoy reflective classical music it would be a worthwhile Sunday morning for you. Come along you are welcome to join in and have morning tea afterwards in the hall.
2 Mon
3 Tue
4 Wed
5 Thu
1.10 - 1.40pm St Andrew's Cathedral
Oscar Smith (St Andrew's Cathedral Organ Scholar)
$5 entry
6 Fri
7 Sat
Beyond the Blue Mountains Organ Adventure
Queen's Birthday Holiday Weekend – Saturday 7 to Monday 9 June, 2014
Following the success of last year's trip to the South Coast and Southern Highlands, we have arranged another OMSS weekend ramble. This year we will visit organs in Mt Victoria, Lithgow, Mudgee, Bathurst and Carcoar, and enjoy the brisk inland winter weather. Please bring your winter woollies!
IMPORTANT!!
We suggest you book your accommodation NOW, as the motels are filling up already for the holiday weekend. If you are coming for the whole weekend, you will need to book two nights - Saturday 7 June in Mudgee, and Sunday 8 June in Orange.
ITINERARY
Saturday 7 June
We begin by visiting Peter Meyer's house in Mt Victoria, arriving at 11:30 am (Allow 2 hours from Sydney). We will have time to play Peter's residence organ, and a light lunch will be provided.At 1:45 pm, we will depart for Lithgow, and St Paul's Anglican church, Lithgow, where our member Bill Stead will show us the Hill, Norman and Beard instrument. Departing by 3:30 pm, we are due at St Paul's Presbyterian Church in Mudgee at 5:00 pm (to be confirmed), to play the organ built for the Anglican church by J W Walker in 1855.
We will then go to our motels, then meet for dinner together at 7:30 pm.
Sunday 8 June
Feast of Pentecost. The starting point is St John the Baptist Anglican Church, Mudgee, for the Eucharist at 9:30 am. After this we will play the 1881 Brindley and Foster organ (perhaps some music for Pentecost?), then leave at 11:00 for Bathurst (129km via Sofala, 1 hr 40 m).Lunch in Bathurst will be for you to arrange, and this will be followed by a visit to the William St Uniting Church, Bathurst at 2:00 pm to play the Davidson instrument dating from 1874, and enjoy a cup of tea or coffee. At 3:30 pm we are due to leave for Orange.
Our member Pamela Brooks has arranged for us to visit Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Orange to play the organ built by the British Pianoforte Co in 1911. Copies of her book on the history of the instrument, written for its centenary, will be available.
After checking in to our motels, we plan a dinner at the Ex-Services Club, starting at 7:30 pm.
Monday 9 June
Depart Orange by 9:30 am. We are due in the historic village of Carcoar at 11:00 am. Carcoar is a 50km drive, away, but a stop on the way at the village of Millthorpe is suggested.While visiting the two churches at Carcoar, we suggest that you enjoy walking in the village to enjoy its great character.
11:00 am to 12:15 pm St Paul the Apostle Anglican Church, Carcoar
(Organ built by Richardson, c. 1897, restored Roger H Pogson)
12:30 pm to 1:30 pm Shalom Catholic Retreat Centre
Catered Lunch. Main course, plus dessert and tea or coffee, at a cost of $20. This comes highly recommended!
1:30 pm to 3:pm Church of the Immaculate Conception, Carcoar
(Organ built by Kirkland, c. 1890, restored in 2014 by Hargraves Pipe Organs)
Our member Fr Tim Cahill has arrange the Carcoar visit.
3 pm End of our trip. Time to further explore Carcoar before travelling back to Sydney.
REGISTRATION
Please register with Hugh Knight hbknight1@bigpond.com 02 9874 4225).
Also confirm with him by Friday May 23, if you wish to join the group for lunch at Carcoar on the Monday.
Car sharing - Would those requiring/able to provide transport also contact Hugh Knight.
A daily charge of $15 (payable on the trip) will be made to cover the cost of donations to churches and printed notes. Accommodation and meals at own expense.
Dr Kelvin Hastie has agreed to provide notes on the organs to be visited.
8 Sun
Beyond the Blue Mountains Organ Adventure
Queen's Birthday Holiday Weekend – Saturday 7 to Monday 9 June, 2014Details above
9 Mon
Beyond the Blue Mountains Organ Adventure
Queen's Birthday Holiday Weekend – Saturday 7 to Monday 9 June, 2014Details above
10 Tue
12.30pm - Sydney Town Hall
Pavel Kohour (Czech Organist)
'Carnival of the Animals'
Free
11 Wed
12 Thu
1.10 - 1.40pm St Andrew's Cathedral
Isabelle Demers (USA)
$5 entry
13 Fri
Download information sheet above.
For more information: godelieve@omss.org.au
15 Sun
2 - 3pm Christ Church St Laurence, Sydney
Organ Recital Series on 3rd Sundays
Isabelle Demers (Texas, USA)Program
J.S. Bach (1685-1750) – Prelude in E-flat Major BWV 552/1
Sir Georges Thalben-Ball (1896-1987) – Elegy in B-flat Major
J.S. Bach (1685-1750) – Fugue in E-flat Major BWV 552/2
Jean LeBuis (b. 1956) – Variations for solo pedals on "C'est la belle Françoise"
Rachel Laurin (b. 1961) – Two concert etudes
Flight of the hummingbird
Dialogue of the mockingbirdsSergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) – excerpts from Cinderella, trans. Demers
Introduction
Gavotte
Three oranges
Cinderella gets ready for the ballCharles-Marie Widor (1844-1937) – Allegro, from Symphony #6 op. 42 #2
Entry by note donation
16 Mon
17 Tue
18 Wed
19 Thu
1.10 - 1.40pm St Andrew's Cathedral
Rev. Dr Daniel Dries (Christ Church St Laurence)
$5 entry
20 Fri
21 Sat
22 Sun
23 Mon
24 Tue
25 Wed
26 Thu
1.10 - 1.40pm St Andrew's Cathedral
Neil Cameron (St Alban's, Epping)
$5 entry
27 Fri
1.10pm St Stephen's, Macquarie St, Sydney.
Joshua Ryan (Organ Scholar, St Stephen's)Program details
Donation welcome
Enquiries: 0413 166 803 (or email Mark Quarmby)
28 Sat
29 Sun
30 Mon
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