Distinguished English Organist Arrives
The distinguished English organist, Malcolm Courtenay Boyle, arrived in Christchurch from London last evening to spend six months in New Zealand examining for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. He spent six months on a similar assignment in New Zealand in 1962. Mr Boyle will be guest recitalist to the fourth Dominion Congress of Organists in Christchurch Cathedral at 3 p.m tomorrow. He said he would “play a proper organist’s repertoire of proper, organ music.”
i His wife is the headmistress ’ of a private school at Harti ford, in Cheshire. i Mr Boyle is the director of ' music at King’s School, Cani terbury. I His compositions include a : suite for full orchestra, a set- • ting of Psalm 19 for chorus i and orchestra, anthems and choral music for church use. In addition to his Cathedral • organ recital tomorrow, Mr i ' Boyle will give a lecture-re-I cital on extemporisation on : the organ of the Durham ■ Street Methodist Church, and ’.will speak at the congress dinlner.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30769, 5 June 1965, Page 16
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