ORGAN APPEAL St Paul's Pro-Cathedral 



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See donation slip below.




 "Please help repair our......" is a familiar refrain from Churches. How could it be otherwise? Churches were often built by, and always equipped  for, whole communities and need help from the whole community - which uses them at significant moments in individuals' lives - for exceptional maintenance. That help comes neither from Government nor the Church of England: I ask it of you, as we seek to raise £90,000.

This is partly so that the organ can continue to play its part in worship. Week by week, God's praises are sung as part of the regular round of Cathedral worship. A far wider congregation hears the organ at weddings and at funerals and memorial services. (Malta was at the centre of a theatre of war and, if the veterans of that war are fewer in number than they used to be, many of their children and grandchildren still come to honour their memory.)

Then, too, the Cathedral is a regular destination for local and foreign choirs and recitalists. The organ is used, and needed, for their concerts. Cathedral, University, school and community choirs come to perform here. In 2007, Maltese groups have given concerts; Canterbury, Norwich and Ely Cathedrals have visited, as have students from Edinburgh University, two schools and a choir drawn from across the North West of England. There is a history of collaboration with the Manoel Theatre, which is the home of the National Orchestra, and another concert under their auspices is presently in the planning stage.

There is an ancient tradition of Cathedrals as places of education. Malta has no choir school, but the Cathedral has a long tradition of using the organ for benefit of local young people in teaching and practicing and examining. Without such traditions, there would be no organists for future generations. Rebuilding the instrument would allow this to continue to the benefit of our children and their children, both Anglican and Roman Catholic.

This Cathedral, which was built by Queen Adelaide, is younger that its organ, which was very probably played by Handel while it was still in Chester Cathedral. He was on the way to Dublin for the first performance of the Messiah. A passage from that work is regularly played at the annual Carol Service and the work itself has often been performed in St Paul's. Your generosity will go beyond devotion beyond artistic value and beyond usefulness: it will maintain a link through the centuries with one of our greatest composers and a tradition of music - making that too valuable and beautiful to lose.
So, "Please help repair our ORGAN"


WORK TO BE UNDERTAKEN
The Organ Committee
formed February 2007

 
The Senior Chaplain & Chancellor
The Rev'd Canon Simon Godfrey

Dr Hugo Agius Muscat MD MSc LRSM CertRCO,
Organist

Adrian Mumford MA FCIS ARCM FLCM FRSA,
Diocesan Organ Advisor

The two Churchwardens of
St Paul’s Pro-Cathedral		 The following are the highlights of the programme
of works for the organ:
  • The existing coupling and derivation system (which is failing) will be removed and replaced by a new microprocessor solid-state switching system that suits the organ specification.
  • The soundboard under-actions will be reformed.
  • The Great bellows will be rebuilt.
  • The console will be reconstructed with new electrical units and components, new tablet units and additional pistons.
  • All keyboards will be refurbished.
  • The organ pipe will be individually cleaned and the speech of the pipes reset and adjusted.
In addition, the casework of the organ will be cleaned and re-polished.
WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP
DONATION SLIP
Please make cheques in Euros or GBP Sterling payable to:
St Paul’s Pro-Cathedral Organ Fund.
The Hon Treasurer
St Paul's Anglican Pro-Cathedral
Independence Square
Valletta VLT1535
Malta.

Our heartfelt thanks to all those who contribute to our Fund.
 Please print off and use the donation slip on the separate page by clicking on 'DONATION SLIP' on the left of this page. If you are a UK taxpayer it will increase your contribution considerably if  you tick the appropriate Gift Aid box.
or further information on the Organ Appeal please contact:
The Chancellor,
The Reverend Canon Simon Godfrey,
 St Paul's Anglican Pro-Cathedral,
Independence Square,
Valletta, VLT1535, Malta

 Email  anglican@onvol.net
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