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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.
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 ...
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 .
Organist of St. Michael, Cornhill 1891–1900 [3] Organist of St Martin in the Bull Ring Birmingham 1900–1920 Organist of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon 1920–1922
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.
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.
Messe pour les Couvents on the Rieger organ of St Michael's Dun Laoghaire, SDG (1990) Baroque Highlights: Gerard Gillen at the organ of St Michael's Church, Dun Laoghaire, SDG (1994) Best Loved Sacred Music : St. James's Choir with Niamh Murray (soprano), Gerard Gillen (organ) and Fr. John O'Brien (conductor) (1997)
The organ of St Andrew Undershaft. His father, James Hart (1647–1718), was a gentleman of the Chapel Royal, chorister of Westminster Abbey, and a composer. [1]Philip Hart was for many years organist of churches in London: he became assistant organist of St Andrew Undershaft in 1696, sole organist from 1697 until his death; he was organist of St Michael, Cornhill from 1704 to 1723.