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Current issue: May/June 2008
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With details of over 60,000 pieces of music now searchable online, Matthew Power gets surfing
Through the lens
Previously unpublished photographs of Olivier Messiaen and reminiscences by people who knew him provide an exclusive conclusion to our trilogy of features about ‘le Maitre’. Photos by Malcolm Crowthers; archive source Brian Morton
Festival focus
The Editor picks out some choral and organ highlights of the year, while Shirley Ratcliffe homes in on the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music
Cantus in Choro
Dominic Muldowney tells Alan Bullard about his choral writing. Caroline Gill traces 60 years of the London Philharmonic Choir and looks ahead to its community project Excite! The UK premiere of Luigi Nono’s massive Prometeo provides a backcloth for Philip Clark to look at influences on the composer
Organo Pleno
Graeme Kay finds a new, multi-purpose Mander organ punching above its weight. Paul Fritts’s latest contribution to Roman Catholic cathedrals impresses Jonathan Ambrosino
Organ Gallery
Orgelbau Kuhn’s UK debut at Jesus College, Cambridge, posed a tricky problem; William McVicker inspects the solution
Regulars
News, New Music, Summer Schools, Recital Round-Up, Reviews, Listening Room
Download extended version of Alex Shinn’s recent study on the lost organs of Oxbridge: Twist of Fate
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