Item 16 - Sixth International Organ Festival

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JCPP/Hurford/3/16

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Sixth International Organ Festival

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  • 28th June 1971 (Creation)
  • 3rd July 1971 (Creation)

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Sixth International Organ Festival. St. Albans, England. Artistic Director: Peter Hurford.
Programme:
Monday June 28th: Improvisation and interpretation competition eliminations. Evensong. Concert by The Early Music Consort. Festival Party.
Tuesday June 29th: Improvisation competition finals. Interpretation competition eliminations. Recital by Bernard Lagacé on French organ music. Late night extra: Julian Chagrin.
Wednesday June 30th: Interpretation competition finals. Visit to the Royal National Rose Society Gardens. Improvisation master class by Piet Kee. Evensong.
Thursday July 1st: Illustrated talk by David Munrow with Gillian Reid. Talk by Michael Gillingham and Peter Hurford on the organ in architecture. Concert by John Dankworth and Anton Heiller (with the Dankworth Ensemble). Late night extra: Cleo Laine.
Friday July 2nd: Talk by Ivor Keys. Organ exhibition. Ad s'hoc hour: a mélange of informal happenings by Peter Hurford and John Birch. Recital by Gustav Leonhardt. Open air event: Madrigals sung by the Alban Singers directed by Peter Hurford.
Saturday July 3rd: Lecture by Josef von Glatter-Götz. Recital by Piet Kee, Christopher Bowers-Broadbent, Ralph Downes. Evensong. Final Concert by Marie-Claire Alain (organ), Montserrat Alavedra (soprano), Anton Heiller (harpsichord), Geraint Jones (harpsichord and direction), with the Geraint Jones Orchestra (leader: Winifred Roberts).

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      Contains a picture of Peter Hurford (second from left to right) with four other people (Ralph Downes, second from right to left. Marie-Claire Alain (?) in the middle).

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