Last updated:
30 Oct 1998
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Organist:
Organist and Master of the Choristers:
Adrian Lucas (1996) e-mail
Assistant:
Daniel Phillips (April 1998)
Organ:
Hill, Hope-Jones, Harrison, Wood-Wordsworth, most recently rebuilt by Wood-Wordsworth in 1978.
4 manuals, sited in the Quire. The South Transept Organ has recently been refurbished. The Transept division is now once again in working order (barring a few small winding troubles). This now means that all the Solo and the Pedal reeds, Open Wood and 32' flues are all back in action.
There is also a Bradford Computing Organ in the Nave.
There will be no opening recital as such, but a series in 1998 (Monday in Holy week and the first Saturday in each of May, June and July after evensong). The first of these will be free admission and by the Organist, Adrian Lucas. The others will be by Chris Brayne, Roy Massey and Raymond Johnston respectively. Details may appear here in early 1998.
Choir:
18 boys (choir school), 4A, 4T, 4B
Services:
5:30 on Mon, Tue, Wed (boys), Fri and Sat.
Sunday: Sung Eucharist 11:00, Evensong 4:00
Telephone: 01905 28854
Recordings:
- Priory
(most recently Cathedral Kaleidoscope - the
first solo recording on the new Nicholson organ in Portsmouth
Cathedral, by Adrian Lucas), - Hyperion
- Coming soon - a recording of the "THREE CHOIRS" of Gloucester, Hereford and Worcester in Tewkesbury Abbey (available Summer 1998) and a new volume for the Priory Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis Series (available 1999)
Other
Information:
The Three Choirs Festival will be held at Worcester in
1999. Further details may be found on the festival
web-site . Previous
Organists:
| Nathaniel Giles | 1581-1586 |
| Thomas Tomkins | 1596-1646 |
| William Hayes | 1731-1734 |
| Jeremiah Clarke | 1806-1807 |
| Hugh Blair | 1895-1897 |
| Ivor Atkins | 1897-1950 |
| David Willcocks | 1950-1957 |
| Douglas Guest | 1957-1963 |
| Christopher Robinson | 1963-1975 |
| Donald Hunt | 1975-1996 |
