Pull Out All The Stops – Restoration work

http://youtu.be/a8x4N5PzzaE

Follow the link to watch a film of the incredible restoration work which took place in September 2011 at the organ builders Harrison & Harrison Ltd in Durham.

Pull Out All The Stops – Launch video, September 2010

http://youtu.be/APNeoJzd1Sc

Please click on the link to see the video we created to launch the campaign to restore the Royal Festival Hall organ back in September 2010.

Progress of the restoration and reinstallation of the Royal Festival Hall Organ

Work has now begun on the central section of the organ with the cleaning, restoring and making of components having started in the Harrison & Harrison workshops in Durham in January and February of this year. The central section of the organ comprises much of the Pedal Organ as well as the Great Reed Chorus [...]

Get to know… Paula Chateauneuf

The Bernstein Project Installation Get to know… Paula Chateauneuf Over one weekend in October lutenist Paula Chateauneuf curates Take The Risk, an innovative and exciting series of concerts and workshops at Southbank Centre that explore improvisation in early music. So where does Willy Wonka, ballet and a good coffee supply fit in with this much [...]

Take The Risk Weekend – An Introduction

Once upon a time, in the very distant past, music existed in neither written nor printed form; it was both learnt and performed through the simple combined devices of memory, variation and improvisation. Thousands of years later many musicians still work in exactly this manner; but in one genre – that of classical music – [...]

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