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An appeal to save a historic organ has raised half of its £2m target. Fundraisers said they hoped work to restore the deteriorating Wells Cathedral grand organ would begin in 2026, ensuring its ...
Wells Cathedral is a Church of England cathedral in Wells, Somerset, England. Organ seen from the crossing. The first record of an organ dates from 1310, with a smaller organ, probably for the Lady Chapel, being installed in 1415.
Wells Cathedral School, which was established to educate these choirboys, dates its foundation to this point. [21] There is, however, some controversy over this. Following the Norman Conquest, John de Villula moved the seat of the bishop from Wells to Bath in 1090. [22] The church at Wells, no longer a cathedral, had a college of secular clergy ...
William Fox (born 1995) is an English organist, currently Director of Music at St Albans Cathedral. [1] Fox was successively a chorister at York Minster, Junior Organ Scholar at Wells Cathedral and Organ Scholar at Hereford Cathedral. [2] While in Hereford he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists (FRCO) and won the Turpin and ...
Most people know that organ donations save lives and, in fact, more than 90 percent of Americans support organ donation. But only about 50 percent of U.S. adults are actually registered organ and ...
Thomas Henry Davis was born on 25 September 1867 in Birmingham and educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham.. In 1892, he became curate at the Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick, moving to Wells Cathedral in 1895 as priest vicar.
Fanfare for Wells (2002), organ, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones and cymbals (a two-minute fanfare (in the style of Marcel Dupré') for use immediately before Hubert Parry's I was glad), commissioned by the Wells Cathedral voluntary choir
Denys Duncan Rivers Pouncey was born on 23 December 1906 and was educated at Marlborough College and Queens' College, Cambridge.. In 1935 he founded the Northampton Bach Choir.