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Latest newsletter: April 2020
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We're still here, waiting, like everyone

As hundreds of other newsletters, bulletins, emails, texts and so on have already told you a thousand times, no-one really knows anything much about what the rest of 2020 holds for us. At least we are all in it together, and hopefully all understand the confusion, hesitations, pain, grief, worries, fears and all the stuff that which goes with this pandemic. 
News of Covid-19 is almost all we hear about, so I won't repeat what you already know; but I do need to alert regular readers to a couple of things.
Christchurch Town Hall Rieger pipe organ

1. Organ concert

The FREE Organ Curator's Concert, now an annual event, thanks to the generous support of the Christchurch Town Hall venue management company, Vbase, is already rescheduled now for October 18th, 2020. This concert by curator Martin Setchell was to have been on June 1st but obviously has been postponed. Let's all look forward to October (and a happier world). Details later, but meanwhile, the expectation is there! Just as well we have become adept at waiting. Updates will be also posted on www.nzorgan.com

2. Pipeline Press books and CDs

The sale of books and CDs from pipelinepress.com has been temporarily paused until the New Zealand level 4 lock down is lifted and we are once again able to ship these items. Although you and I might regard music and music-related matters as essential, they don't qualify in the eyes of them as wot makes da rulz. But the CDs and books will be back, and hopefully within a fortnight. Meanwhile you still can download mp3 files of "Resounding Aftershocks" (and the booklet) and most tracks from "Cardboard Cathedral Organ Capers" from this downloads page. 
However, our organ-themed gift sites such as organgifts.com, redbubble and Fine Art America  are all still operating happily, and you can even get a special  face mask by clicking here or on the mask image above.

From the Swellbox:

Only a handful of links this time, because during the lock down I think every worthwhile video or link has already been discovered and passed on, many times  :-) .
  1. Primary school children got a particularly Italian flavoured lunchtime treat. 
  2. From the Archive of Recorded Church Music, the  BBC TV in 1974 recorded this 59 minutes gem from poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman. "A Passion for Churches". And stay around for the following item, again with Betjeman, on the last steam train 
  3. Oh h1 is a free, quick and quirky little logic game, perfect for staving off 30 seconds of boredom on your computer or device. Warning: addictive. (But who cares? Just have fun).
I can't finish without trying to express my gratitude to the hundreds, thousands, millions of people who are putting their own lives at risk working to save others in this pandemic. It was be quicker to berate those idiots who are doing the opposite by flouting the rules and endangering others, knowingly running the risk of contracting the virus and spreading it. But I won't - it is far better to think of the positives at a time like this. Focus on the heart-warming tales, stories of humans acting like angels, and experience the best that humanity can produce. We are certainly graced by the presence of armies of good people, everywhere. May you keep safe, in trying to keep us safe.
Stay home!
Cheerful noises,
Jenny
Stay in your bubble and stay home. (And snuggle your pets. That always helps)
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Concert videos:
Two FREE concerts on Wednesday, March 6th, 2019 marked the re-opening of the Rieger pipe organ in the Town Hall auditorium.  The videos of the two concerts are available to watch from the Shipleys  website here. Two capacity audiences and huge smiles and warm fuzzies everywhere. It was almost worth waiting the eight years for.