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Organ duo

Tomorrow’s lunch-time organ recital in the Christchurch Cathedral will be given by Ken and Ellen Hart of Kansas. Ellen Armitage Hart is organist-choirmaster at St Andrew’s Episcopal Church of Emporia, Kansas. She is a member of the Anglican Association of Musicians, the Choristers’ Guild and has taught primary school music. She is a native of Christchurch and has been active as a recitalist accompanist and church musician in New Zealand and the United States of America. Ms Hart holds a music degree from the University of Canterbury and the Master of Sacred Music Degree from Union Theological Seminary in New York City. She is a former national president of the New Zealand Organists’ Association and a national recording artist for radio. She is the former teacher of many of Christchurch’s keyboard musicians. Kenneth Hart is Professor of Music and Head of the Department of Music at

Emporia State University, he holds a Doctor of Musical Art degree from the University of Cincinnati’s College — Conservatory of Music, the Master of Sacred Music from Union Theological Seminary in New York City and a bachelor of arts from Grinnell College (Iowa). Dr Hart and his wife were formerly Ministers of Music at the well-known Westminster Presbyterian Church in Lincoln, Nebraska, where they supervised 10 choirs and an active' concert series, and taught organ at Hastings College. Dr Hart has been active in the American Guild of Organists, the American Choral Directors’ Association and the Music Educators National Conference. The Harts’ programme on December 5 will be a sample of French organ music from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, featuring music by Daquin, Widor, Lesur, Deupre and Gigout. The recital begins at 12.15 p.m.

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Press, 4 December 1985, Page 24

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Organ duo Press, 4 December 1985, Page 24

Organ duo Press, 4 December 1985, Page 24