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Tuesday 12 August 2008 at 12:30 |
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St Mary's Church, Hemel Hempstead |
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| Performers: |  |
George Bayley, organ
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| Programme
: |  | George Frideric Handel |
| 1: |  | Largo from 'Xerxes', HWV40
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| |  | Dietrich Buxtehude |
| 2: |  | Præludium in G
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| |  | Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber |
| 3: |  | Memory from 'Cats'
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| |  | Harold Arlen |
| 4: |  | Over the Rainbow, from 'The Wizard of Oz'
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| |  | Josef Gabriel Rheinberger |
| 5: |  | Prelude from 'Organ Sonata No 7 in F minor', Op 127
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| |  | Dietrich Buxtehude |
| 6: |  | Fugue in C, 'Gigue', BuxWV174
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| |  | Malcolm Archer |
| 7: |  | Bluesleeves
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| |  | Irving Berlin |
| 8: |  | Alexander's Ragtime Band
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| |  | Sir Edward Elgar |
| 9: |  | Pomp and Circumstance March No 4 in G
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| Note: |  |
George Bayley has been an organist/choirmaster and composer for many years. He presently is organist and director of music at St Peter’s Episcopal Church in Lewes, Delaware USA where he directs a choir of 40 singers and manages the church’s concert series. A native of Massachusetts, George Bayley received his musical education at The New England Conservatory of Music in Boston where he majored in organ with Dr Carl McKinley and studied Liturgical Music with Dr Everett Titcomb, earning his MusB, Honors with Distinction.
Bayley subsequently earned his MMus. At the University of Michigan School of Music in Ann Arbor where he studied organ with Professor Robert Clark and Choral Conducting with Professor Thomas Hilbish. Before becoming organist and director of music at St Peter’s in May 2000, George Bayley served churches and cathedrals in Albany, New York; Newport News, Virginia; and Jacksonville, Florida. He also served on the faculties of Christopher Newport University in Newport News and Jacksonville University in Jacksonville, Florida where he taught Organ, Church Music, and Music History. Bayley has made frequent concert appearances throughout the eastern seaboard of the USA as well as in Alabama, Tennessee, and Oklahoma. Each summer, he exchanges positions with an organist from the British Isles, and is cuurently here at St Mary’s on such an exchange. He has played many organ recitals throughout Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and England.
In recent years, George Bayley has become more active as a choral composer. His compositions are sung in major churches of the USA as well as in cathedrals and parish churches of the United Kingdom. |
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| Venue: |  |
St Mary's Church High Street Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire England
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