Pipeworks Festival 2019 Trinity College Organ Through Five Centuries
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The Trinity College Organ Through Five Centuries
Organbuilder Dominic Gwynn in conversation with Andrew Johnstone, 2pm
Public Theatre, Front Square, Trinity College
Hear the remarkable life-story of Ireland’s oldest playable musical instrument from its origins in the year before Bach’s birth to its recent re-emergence from generations of obscurity. Dominic Gwynn is founder-partner of the UK organbuilding firm Goetze & Gwynn and the world’s leading authority on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British organs. Andrew Johnstone has been since 1992 a lecturer in music at TCD and a member of the college organ committee.