St. Mary’s Bathwick is beginning a fundraising campaign for its organ (I think this is at least the third such campaign since I’ve been in Bath). It’s a Willis, and still at old Philharmonic pitch, which makes some performers baulk at tuning to it.
Joel Cooper and Shean Bowers presented a concert of popular classics for trumpet and/or organ. Strictly speaking trumpet and cornet – a piccolo trumpet was also on display for the audience to look at. We got a mixture of trumpet originals (Clarke’s voluntary), arrangements (e.g. Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring, where we wisely were given only one verse), and some pieces for organ alone.