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Short periods based in London and at St Matthew's, Ottawa were followed by his appointment in 1979 as Director of Music of St Michael's Cornhill, the church which has been his base for 40 years. [1] Here he has given more than 400 of the weekly lunchtime organ recitals, and continued the musical traditions of such predecessors as William Boyce ...
He remained at St Michael Cornhill until 1966, [5] except for a brief war-time interregnum in 1941 to deputise for Boris Ord as Director of Music at King's College, Cambridge. It is widely accepted that the Cornhill Lunchtime Organ Recitals series begun by Darke in 1916 is the longest-running lunchtime organ concert series in the world.
St Michael, Cornhill, is a medieval parish church in the City of London with pre-Norman Conquest parochial foundation. It lies in the ward of Cornhill . The medieval structure was lost in the Great Fire of London , and replaced by the present building, traditionally attributed to Sir Christopher Wren .
That’s the organ recital I’m talking about. It's a group phenomenon. You don’t perform the recital alone; it takes a small assembly to get a good recitation going. Four to six is a perfect size.
On Monday 28 July 2008 the John Kelsall Memorial Recital took place at St Michael's, Cornhill, London, given by the resident organist and Director of Music Jonathan Rennert. The School of Music, Kingston Polytechnic
A Harris organ at Christ Church Greyfriars, also known as Christ Church Newgate, in London was much rebuilt by William Hill & Sons in 1838 to designs by Henry Gauntlett and was destroyed along with the church during the Blitz in December 1940. The organ of St Michael, Cornhill contains nine ranks from the Harris instrument of 1684.
The RCO was founded as the College of Organists in 1864 by Richard Limpus, the organist of St Michael, Cornhill, in the City of London, and received its Royal Charter in 1893. In 1903 it was offered a 99-year lease at peppercorn rent on a building designed by the architect H. H. Cole in Kensington Gore , west London.
Richard Popplewell LVO (18 October 1935 – 22 March 2016) was an English organist and composer who served at the Chapel Royal [1] [2] and St Michael's, Cornhill. Popplewell died in 22 March 2016, at the age of 80. [3]