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> John Birch, RIP
maggiemay
post Apr 28 2012, 03:06 PM
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Many organists will remember John Birch, whose death has apparently been announced today.

He was a professor at RCM when I was a student there (a good friend had organ lessons with him - he was a strict taskmaster!), and he was on the board of the RCO (in fact one of my exminers when I took the exam), Organist and Master of Choristers at Chichester, and ... well here's the wikilink -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_(musician)
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post Apr 28 2012, 09:23 PM
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Wasn't he organist to the Royal Albert Hall, or something like that?
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