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From 42 applicants, including 25 men and 17 women, 16 were invited to Montreal. The 2014 Competition took place in Montreal from October 7–19, 2014 in churches such as Saint-Jean-Baptiste and Notre-Dame Basilica; the CIOC winners played on the Grand Orgue Pierre-Béique organ of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal in the Maison Symphonique.
The chief aim of the college is to promote a high standard of organ playing, choral directing, church music and composition. To this end, it holds examinations and grants diplomas, encourages musical events such as workshops and recitals, commissions new works, affords opportunities for discussion, and provides advice on being a professional ...
The music played at such recitals is typically written for pipe organ, which includes church organs, theatre organs and symphonic organs (also known as concert organs). Increasing restoration of theatre and cinema organs (such as the Wurlitzers ) also allows current performances of many pieces that can only be played on theatre organs .
The following is a list of notable organists from the past and present who perform organ literature This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Montserrat Torrent Plays the Great Organ of Barcelona Cathedral (1995) Les Llibertats d'orgue del cicle de Nadal (1995) Libro de Tientos y discursos de música práctica, y teórica para Organo Vol. III (1996) L'esplendorós barroc (1997) Libro de Tientos y discursos de música práctica, y teórica para Organo Vol. IV (1999)
In July, the mortgage sale was completed, with Essex Savings Bank buying the property at auction for $55,000. In May 1946, eight local residents founded a charitable organization to buy and maintain the music hall, operating it as a cultural center. In 1947 the Aeolian-Skinner Organ Company was engaged to rebuild the organ. The tonal structure ...
Celebrated Canadian pianist Glenn Gould recorded his 1962 album The Art of the Fugue by Bach (Columbia Records) on a 1960 Casavant Frères organ in All Saints' Kingsway Anglican Church in Toronto – available with other Art of Fugue recordings on Sony 87759. The organ was destroyed by fire in 1966. A new Casavant organ, opus 3874 (2009 ...
[12] [13] Nolan completed recording Widor's Organ Symphonies with the release of Volume 5 in February 2016, featuring the Symphony gothique, Op.70 and Symphony romane, Op.73 which received five-star reviews in Limelight Magazine [14] and in the UK magazine Choir & Organ, [15] and later a nomination for Limelight Magazine's 2016 instrumental ...