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Anglican Chaplaincy
in Malta and Gozo
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ORGAN APPEAL
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St Paul's Pro-Cathedral, Valletta, Malta. | |
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"Please help repair our......" is
a familiar refrain from Churches. How could it be otherwise? Churches
were often built by, and always equipped for, whole commmunities
and need help from the whole community - which uses them at significant
moments in individuals' lives - for exceptional maintenance. That help
comes neither from Government nor the Church of England: I ask it of
you, as we seek to raise £90,000 / €135,000. This is partly so that the organ can continue to play its part in worship. Week by week, God's praises are sung as part of the regular round of Cathedral worship. A far wider congregation hears the organ at weddings and at funerals and memorial services. (Malta was at the centre of a theatre of war and, if the veterans of that war are fewer in number than they used to be, many of their children and grandchildren still come to honour their memory.) Then, too, the Cathedral is a regular destination for local and foreign choirs and recitalists. The organ is used, and needed, for their concerts. Cathedral, University, school and community choirs come to perform here. In 2007, Maltese groups have given concerts; Canterbury, Norwich and Ely Cathedrals have visited, as have students from Edinburgh University, two schools and a choir drawn from across the North West of England. There is a history of collaboration with the Manoel Theatre, which is the home of the National Orchestra, and another concert under their auspices is presently in the planning stage. There is an ancient tradition of Cathedrals as places of education. Malta has no choir school, but the Cathedral has a long tradition of using the organ for benefit of local young people in teaching and practicing and examining. Without such traditions, there would be no organists for future generations. Rebuilding the instrument would allow this to continue to the benefit of our children and their children, both Anglican and Roman Catholic. This Cathedral, which was built by Queen Adelaide, is younger that its organ, which was very probably played by Handel while it was still in Chester Cathedral. He was on the way to Dublin for the first performance of the Messiah. A passage from that work is regularly played at the annual Carol Service and the work itself has often been performed in St Paul's. Your generosity will go beyond devotion beyond artistic value and beyond usefulness: it will maintain a link through the centuries with one of our greatest composers and a tradition of music - making that too valuable and beautiful to lose. |
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| So, "Please help repair our ORGAN" |
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| What will be done with the money donated? | If
we raise the necessary sum of £90,000 / €135,000, the
renovation of the organ will be entrusted to David Wells, Organ
Builders Ltd of Liverpool; this firm takes care of the magnificent
Willis Organ in Liverpool Cathedral (the largest in England) as well as
several other organs (Manchester, Coventry, Carlisle, Chester and
others). |
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| WORK TO BE UNDERTAKEN | ||
| The Organ Committee formed February 2007 The Senior Chaplain & Chancellor Dr Hugo Agius Muscat MD LRSM, Organist Adrian Mumford MA FCIS ARCM FLCM FRSA, Diocesan Organ Advisor The two Churchwardens of St Paul’s Pro-Cathedral |
The following are the highlights of the programme
of works for the organ:
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| THE HISTORY OF THE ORGAN and its SPECIFICATION | ||
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See St Paul's Organ, page>>>> |
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| WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP | ||
DONATION SLIP |
Please print off and use the donation slip on the separate page by clicking on 'DONATION SLIP' on the left of this page. If you are a UK taxpayer it will increase your contribution considerably if you tick the appropriate box. | |
| Please make cheques in Euros or GBP Sterling payable to: St Paul’s Pro-Cathedral Organ Fund.
The Hon Treasurer
St Paul's Anglican Pro-Cathedral Independance Square Valletta VLT1535 Malta. Our heartfelt thanks to all those who contribute to our Fund.
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For further information on the Organ Appeal please contact:
The Chancellor,
St Paul's Anglican Pro-Cathedral, Independance Square, Valletta, VLT1535, Malta Email anglican@onvol.net |
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Gozo
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June / 2008
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