The organist librarian

To Mass. Went to Battersea to get mosaics but found room locked as flower arrangers not there. Contacted Pat and she will let me know when I can go again in the morning. Home for lunch. Played for 2.30 funeral at Caterham. No coffin! We were told very little about Carole apart from her love of travel and arranging trips through the Miller centre! I played Faure, Vierne, Moore and Handel. To preProm talk on Sargent - he was a Christian and stayed in England during the War working incredibly hard. First conducted at 14 and Henry Wood allowed him to conduct his composition. He saw himself as the music not the musicians for whom he had little empathy denying them contracts and pensions! No wonder they did not like him!  I first saw him when I was aged 14 when my Dad arranged for both of us to sit in front of the huge Johannesburg Town Hall organ. Harry Stanton played the organ for The Planets and was shown how to do the glissando with both arms! For some reason we wore evening dress p...

Had some time to discuss finances and new bed. Liz to the Passage with 9 confirmandi and £90 collected in the jam jars. She served at confirmation at 6 and all went well. To St Leonard Chelsham a nice organ. Susan Beamish is church warden and knows Alistair Telfer in the worshipful company of musicians. Pie and Spitfire ale at Botley hill farmhouse - very good. To St Peter Limpsfield which a rather brash Peter Collins rebuild of an older organ. St Cecilia window is very fine and found graves of Delius, Beecham, Norman del Mar and Eileen Joyce nearby Jack Brymer. On to St Andrew Limpsfield Chart which has an 1885 organ which was pleasing. At Titsey a Pearson church the organ is an unspoilt Hill which has been rebuilt to a high standard. Home by 6 and saw Dennis and Ann Marie after dinner.