Organ Appeal Newsletter - Trinity 2013

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Dean Close School

Organ Appeal Trinity Update 2013

ORGAN APPEAL

Last chance to visit the Organ Loft at Commem If you feel you can brave an awkward and vertical climb through a restricted gap to a dark and dusty attic, you will be rewarded with an atmospheric walk and talk amongst the old pipes to get a feel of how the great beast of an organ works. There will be a rota of organ loft tours running at Commem so do reserve your slot on the day.

An enormous thank you to all our supporters We continue to fundraise hard and since our last newsletter the appeal has really gained momentum. Construction of the new organ is planned to start in Easter 2014. It will arrive on site during the latter half of the summer and will then be installed and voiced in the Chapel by Christmas 2014. It is a hugely exciting prospect to think that in just over 18 months we will have a wonderful bespoke pipe organ to lead our choirs and congregational singing for the next century. Please do support the

project now if you have not yet done so. In the meantime, maintaining the existing organ is no longer viable so it will be removed from the Chapel at the end of the Trinity term and replaced with a temporary digital instrument until the new organ is installed. Thank you again to everyone who has supported the appeal so far – all donations of any size are extremely welcome and we must now double our collective efforts to finish raising the funds needed to purchase our new organ.

Target £250,000

Almost 2 /3 rds of the way to our appeal target!

If you would like to support the appeal please contact the Development Office on 01242 267439 or development@deanclose.org.uk

It’s been a fantastic 8 months... There has been much to enjoy since arriving at Dean Close last September. There are several events that have stood out for me personally. The Chapel Choir’s Service of Nine Lessons and Carols at Christmas was wonderfully atmospheric, and the choir rose to the challenges of learning a large corpus of repertoire. Schola Cantorum performed an exciting and polished rendition of Handel’s oratorio Messiah three days later, which was a real delight to conduct. The Chamber Choir gave a very moving and emotionally charged performance of works by Purcell, Sanders and Finzi in their Lenten Sequence in March, and the Choral Society’s contribution of Mozart, Requiem to the concert at the Pittville Pump Room in February was musically assured and immensely stylish. I am very much looking forward to this Trinity Term and completing my first full year at Dean Close. Simon Bell, Director of Choral Music

StopPress! All Bronze Stops Sponsored Following huge demand we are delighted that all of the bronze stops have been sponsored. After discussions with Nicholson of Malvern, who will be building the new instrument, we have new bronze console options for our supporters who wish to make a £1,000 donation. Please contact the Development Office if you would like to find out more.

New Bronze Console options available.


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