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The Organist Entertains was a long-running music programme broadcast on BBC Radio 2. The 30-minute programme focused on the organ in its many guises, and played recordings and live broadcasts of theatre organs , pipe organs and electronic organs around the United Kingdom and the rest of the world.
On television, he was the resident organist on the quiz show Double Your Money. [7] He created the BBC Radio 2 series The Organist Entertains in 1969, and was its main presenter until 1980, often at the BBC Theatre Organ in Manchester. A special edition in 2012 marked the centenary of his birth. [4]
Nigel Ogden (born 1954) is an English theatre organist, known for presenting and performing on the BBC Radio 2 programme The Organist Entertains between 1980 and the end of the show's run in 2018. Ogden was born in Manchester , England, [ 1 ] the son of a church organist, and had several years of piano lessons, before taking up the organ at the ...
Doreen Chadwick (7 August 1918 – 26 June 2014) was a British pianist and theatre organist. [1] She was known for being the organist at the Odeon and Gaumont cinemas in Manchester, broadcasting organ recitals on BBC Radio, including on The Organist Entertains, and for her performances in the US, Holland, and Britain.
She performed on the Light Programme, and from 1969 on, she played on BBC Radio 2's The Organist Entertains. In 1976, she gave Oscar Peterson a masterclass on how play for silent film scenes. [3] She has several roles in film and television (playing herself), such as in Upstairs, Downstairs, and later in Richard Attenborough's film Chaplin ...
Reginald Herbert Dixon, MBE, ARCM (16 October 1904 – 9 May 1985) was an English theatre organist who was primarily known for his position as organist at the Tower Ballroom, Blackpool, a position he held from March 1930 until March 1970. He made and sold more recordings than any other organist before him, or since.
In 2009, Tindersticks' "The Organist Entertains" was featured in the closing credits of an episode of the HBO series Eastbound & Down. "Hubbards Hill" was used in the closing credits of another episode, "Chapter 9", in 2010. The Tindersticks song "Cherry Blossoms" was featured in the 2009 film Unmade Beds.
Reginald Foort was born in Daventry, England, on 23 January 1893.His father was a church organist (leading Foort to joke later that he was 'born an organist'). Foort learnt the piano from the age of seven and took up the organ at eleven after his family moved to Rugby, studying with Basil Johnson, Master of Music at Rugby School. [2]