ORGANISTS IN CANTERBURY

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30294, 21 November 1963, Page 8

ORGANISTS IN CANTERBURY

Dr. Hopkins Urges Association Canterbury organists were urged to form a branch of the New Zealand Organists’ Association, when they were addressed this week by Dr. Douglas Hopkins, senior professor of organ-playing at the Royal Academy of Music and formerly organist and master of the choristers at Peterbrough and Canterbury Cathedrals. Local organists have been considering such a move. Dr. Hopkins had given a demonstration in St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church, Manchester street, where the Rev. Father J. Crocker had made the organ gallery available so that listeners could have an uninterrupted view of the manuals and pedal clavier. Dr. Hopkins demonstrated elementary and advanced organ playing, posture, manual and pedal techniques, registration, improvisation, and points tor teachers. Special features of style were illustrated from the works of Bach and Mendelssohn and such modem composers as Alan Bush and Flor Peelers.

Antarctic Study Plan (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) MOSCOW. November 19. Soviet scientists are planning two treks this year to the south of Queen Maude Land in the Antarctic, where no man has yet set foot, a Soviet explorer, Yevgeny Tolstikov, said yesterday. British, American, Hungarian, French and Czechoslovak explorers would be among 400 persons taking part in the expedition, he said.

On the first trek, Soviet scientists would observe weather and magnetism and would try to take precise measurements of altitudes. A French glaciologist Professor Albert Bauer, would take part in the second trek, wtxxse main task was to study speed of displacement and reformation of Antarctic ice.