Church organists behaving badly

[Contratrombone64]

Schools in Australia almost never have organs, in fact they just don't IF they're goverment owned and run. Privately run schools pretty much all have pipe organs.

[kierantk]

Schools in Australia almost never have organs, in fact they just don't IF they're goverment owned and run. Privately run schools pretty much all have pipe organs.

Perhaps, but I can't think of many schools in sydney that have organs decent enough for performances, besides Sydney Grammar and St Aloysius, and the two cathedral schools of course. Most of the school organs are very basic.

[marval]

This article is more a non organist playing badly.

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http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstrac...619C94659FD7CF

[Soubasse]

Schools in Australia almost never have organs, in fact they just don't IF they're goverment owned and run. Privately run schools pretty much all have pipe organs.

Not down here they don't - private schools with a playable grand piano are rare, let alone a decent pipe organ. Having said that, I'm extremely fortunate to have finally secured a position at a school that has both a tremendous chapel AND a tremendous organ, well equipped for recitals and solos (which is good since it doesn't get to accompany school hymn singing anymore!). Guess where I spend my free lessons? (when I'm through marking assignments and writing exam papers that is ... not much free time at all really ).

For chapel services, I'll usually extemporise on a song that the kids in my classes might know. Earlier this year, they had a Buxtehudian treatment of Muse's Knights of Cydonia - one of them had a keen enough ear to pick it up and mention it in class later that day

Speaking of Sydney private schools, I once played a glorious Silbermann copy (I think that what it was) in a private school in Sydney. CT, might you know which one that would be? I think used to know one of the teachers there or something (uurgh, too long ago, too many dead brain cells)