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Harold Dexter
Harold Dexter (7 October 1920 - 27 June 2000) was a British organist, Professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (Head of General Musicianship Department, 1962–85). He was educated at Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys, Leicester and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Appointments *1946 -1949 Organist of St. James’ Church, Louth St James' Church, Louth *1949 - 1956 Organist of Holy Trinity Church, Leamington Spa *1956 - 1968 Organist of Southwark Cathedral References * ‘DEXTER, Harold’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 200accessed 30 July 2011 * http://www.organ-biography.info/index.php?id=Dexter_Harold_1920 {{DEFAULTSORT:Dexter, Harold 1920 births 2000 deaths People educated at Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guildhall School Of Music And Drama
The Guildhall School of Music and Drama is a conservatoire and drama school located in the City of London, United Kingdom. Established in 1880, the school offers undergraduate and postgraduate training in all aspects of classical music and jazz along with drama and production arts. The school has students from over seventy countries. Widely regarded as one of the leading performing arts institutions in the world, it was ranked first in both the Guardian’s 2022 League Table for Music and the Complete University Guide's 2023 Arts, Drama and Music league table. It is also ranked the sixth university in the world for performing arts in the 2022 QS World University Rankings. Based within the Barbican Centre in the City of London, the school currently numbers just over 1,000 students, approximately 800 of whom are music students and 200 on the drama and technical theatre programmes. The school is a member of Conservatoires UK, the European Association of Conservatoires and the Fede ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wyggeston Grammar School For Boys
Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys was a grammar school in Leicester, England, in existence from 1876 to 1976. It was succeeded by the present-day Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth I College. History After William Wyggeston's death in 1536, his brother Thomas Wyggeston, as a trustee, used part of the money to establish a school for boys known as the Elizabethan Grammar School. This eventually became defunct in the 19th century, but was re-founded on the site of the old Wyggeston Hospital as the Wyggeston Hospital School, which took its first pupils on 30 April 1877. This school passed its name to the later Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys. In 1927, new buildings were built, designed by James Miller. In 1970/1971, the school won the national ''Top of the Form'' radio quiz show, beating Harris Academy, Dundee, in the final on 2 January 1971. A notable alumnus of the school is Dr. Arthur Colborne Lankester who went on to become a doctor and a medical missionary in India who was reve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Corpus Christi College (full name: "The College of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary", often shortened to "Corpus"), is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. From the late 14th century through to the early 19th century it was also commonly known as St Benet's College. The college is notable as the only one founded by Cambridge townspeople: it was established in 1352 by the Guild of Corpus Christi and the Guild of the Blessed Virgin Mary, making it the sixth-oldest college in Cambridge. With around 250 undergraduates and 200 postgraduates, it also has the second smallest student body of the traditional colleges of the University, after Peterhouse. The College has traditionally been one of the more academically successful colleges in the University of Cambridge. In the unofficial Tompkins Table, which ranks the colleges by the class of degrees obtained by their undergraduates, in 2012 Corpus was in third position, with 32.4% of its undergraduates achievi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St James' Church, Louth
St James' Church, Louth is the Anglican parish church of Louth in Lincolnshire, England. It is notable for having the third tallest spire in the whole of the United Kingdom and being the location of the Lincolnshire Rising. History The church is a medieval building. It has the tallest steeple of any medieval parish church in Britain. A recent survey has confirmed the height of the stonework as and to the top of the cockerel weather vane as . It also confirms it as one of the very finest medieval steeples in the country The chancel and nave were re-built between 1430 and 1440. The building of the tower probably commenced in the 1440s or 1450s and had been completed to its present height by 1499. Work began on the spire in 1501 and it was not finished until 1515. The weathercock was placed on the top of the spire amongst great rejoicing on the eve of Holy Cross day Thursday 13 September 1515. This 'wedercoke' had been made in Lincoln from a huge copper basin captured from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holy Trinity Church, Leamington Spa
Holy Trinity Church, Leamington Spa is a Grade II listed parish church in Leamington Spa, England. History Holy Trinity Church was started in 1825 as a daughter church of All Saints Church, Leamington Spa, All Saints' Church and opened in 1847. It was designed by Mitchell of Leamington Spa, to the commission of Revd John Craig (priest), John Craig, vicar of All Saints. It was enlarged in 1865, and more work took place in 1881 when the transepts were enlarged and a vestry was provided by John Cundall. A parish was formed in 1899. The porch and east chancel wall date from 1900, and there were further alterations just before the First World War. Organ The church has a large four-manual pipe organ which dates from 1880. Originally by Forster and Andrews the organ has been rebuilt and restored many times. A specification of the organ can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register. Organists *1939 - 1949 Stanley Vann *Martindale Sidwell temporary organist during the war *1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southwark Cathedral
Southwark Cathedral ( ) or The Cathedral and Collegiate Church of St Saviour and St Mary Overie, Southwark, London, lies on the south bank of the River Thames close to London Bridge. It is the mother church of the Anglican Diocese of Southwark. It has been a place of Christian worship for more than 1,000 years, but a cathedral only since the creation of the diocese of Southwark in 1905. Between 1106 and 1538 it was the church of an Augustinian priory, Southwark Priory, dedicated to the Virgin Mary (St. Mary's – over the river). Following the dissolution of the monasteries, it became a parish church, with the new dedication of St Saviour's. The church was in the diocese of Winchester until 1877, when the parish of St Saviour's, along with other South London parishes, was transferred to the diocese of Rochester. The present building retains the basic form of the Gothic structure built between 1220 and 1420, although the nave is a late 19th-century reconstruction. History Lege ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidney Campbell
Sidney Scholfield Campbell (born 1909 in London and died on 4 June 1974 in Windsor) was an English organist. Education He studied organ under Ernest Bullock and Harold Darke. In 1931 he was awarded the FRCO. Career He was *organist of St. Margaret's Church, Leytonstone 1927 to 1929 *organist of Chigwell Parish Church 1929 to 1931 *organist of West Ham Parish Church 1931 to 1937 *organist of St. Matthew's, West Ham 1931 to 1936 *organist of St. Peter's Church, Croydon 1937 - 1943 *organist of St. Peter's Church, Wolverhampton 1943 to 1947 *organist of Ely Cathedral 1949 to 1953 *organist of Southwark Cathedral 1953 to 1956 *organist of Canterbury Cathedral 1956 to 1961 *organist of St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle 1961 - 1974.''The Times'', 6 June 1974. Sidney Campbell was also organist of St Clements Church in Sandwich, Kent Sandwich is a town and civil parish in the Dover District of Kent, south-east England. It lies on the River Stour and has a population of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Director Of Music
A music(al) director or director of music is the person responsible for the musical aspects of a performance, production, or organization. This would include the artistic director and usually chief conductor of an orchestra or concert band, the director of music of a film, the director of music at a radio station, the person in charge of musical activities or the head of the music department in a school, the coordinator of the musical ensembles in a university, college, or institution (but not usually the head of the academic music department), the head bandmaster of a military band, the head organist and choirmaster of a church, or an organist and master of the choristers (the title given to a director of music at a cathedral, particularly in England). Orchestra The title of "music director" or "musical director" is used by many symphony orchestras to designate the primary conductor and artistic leader of the orchestra. The term "music director" is most common for orchestras in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1920 Births
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