Widor's Toccata has been popular with brides in Britain, ever since it was chosen as recessional music at the wedding of Princess Alexandra and the Hon. Angus Ogilvy at Westminster Abbey in 1963.

But a pox be upon those people (you know who you are) who ignore the music completely, but still choose to linger right next to the organ as they gossip loudly across the end of Widor’s Toccata.

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And he left. Five minutes later, knock, knock on the door. —Excuse me, m’sieu, I forgot to ask you if you could lend me a hundred sous? —You’re bothering me, leave me alone. —That's not very polite!

But just in case this all seemed a little too “rustic” for the Conference Center organ, a quote from the “Toccata” movement of Widor’s Organ Symphony no. 5 steals in, bouncing between ...

Some composers write one piece so amazing that they are known for nothing else: think of Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana, or Widor’s Toccata. One of the two sad aspects to Holst is that to ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login Widor's pedagogical writings, translated for the first time, offer essential guidance for interpreting his organ compositions as well as ...

Brinkler Intermezzo, J. H. Rogers Bethlehem, Otto Malling Toccata from Fifth Symphony, C. M. Widor Want to keep up with breaking news? Subscribe to our email newsletter. The Harvard ...

Robinson, organist at King's Chapel, Boston. The program is as follows: Toceata in F Bach Invocation Adagio, Intermezzo, Sixth Symphony Widor Andante Maestoso, Allegro Risoluto, Sonata in C ...

Organist Jeremy David Tarrant rightly claims Charles-Marie Widor’s Seventh Symphony to be ‘the apex of symphonic writing for organ’, a ...

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The performance by Prof Tracey begins at 7.30pm, and will feature work by Soler, Pachelbel, Bach, Schumann, Whitlock, Franck, Warlock, Peeters, Tchaikovsky and Widor. The new organ was designed in ...