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Reading Town Hall is the town hall of Reading, Berkshire, England. The town hall was built in several phases between 1786 and 1897, although the principal facade was designed by Alfred Waterhouse in 1875. Situated close to the site of Reading Abbey, it is adjoined to the north by the Hospitium of St John and to the south by St Laurence's Church.
Reading Town Hall organ, built by Willis in 1864, extended in 1882 and rebuilt by Harrison & Harrison in 1999 St Bees Priory organ, the last major instrument to be personally supervised by "Father" Henry Willis, 1899. Henry Willis & Sons is a British firm of pipe organ builders founded in 1845. Although most of their installations have been in ...
He has released seven CD recordings on the Regent Records [2] label: the complete organ works of Elgar from Salisbury Cathedral (REGCD256), released for the 150th anniversary of the composer’s birth (2007); Restored to Glory (REGCD265), released to commemorate the re-opening of the Town Hall and re-inauguration of its organ in October 2007 ...
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.
The purpose of the appointment is to have an organist for civic occasions and who will provide a series of free public organ recitals. Birmingham Town Hall is the traditional home of the City Organist, and it was under the third City Organist, James Stimpson, that the popular weekly recitals began. So popular were the recitals that audiences of ...
The Dane and Polly Bales Organ Recital Hall at the University of Kansas was specifically constructed for organ recitals. The Harvard Organ Society holds regular organ recitals at the Adolphus Busch Hall. The Temple Square Organ Recitals show off the organs in and around Temple Square, including the Salt Lake Tabernacle organ (most often in the ...
Rea supervised erection of the instrument in the Centennial Hall, and tested the mechanism before the famous organist W. T. Best 'opened' the organ in August 1890 [2] and, when Best returned to England, Rea gave a number of recitals at the Town Hall. He also supervised access to the huge instrument until the appointment of Wiegand as City Organist.
The other church in the district is the stone Gothic Revival Christian Science Church on the west side of the common. The west side also includes the major municipal buildings: the library and town hall are brick Georgian Revival buildings dating to the early 20th century, as does the similarly-styled old high school building. [2]