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Editorial 11

Three Years on the IAO Council Nicolas Kynaston 13

The 1987 International Congress of Organists 14

‘A Boom of Canons’ – a tribute to Handel Maxwell Craven 15

Soundboard for the Tercentenary of Handel John Norman 21

Tallis: Father of English Cathedral Music Stanley Vann 25

Contemporary Music and the Avant-Garde II Janet Thomas 31

Per Ardua Ad ARCO – IV Gwilym Beechey 39

Letters to the Editor: Harry Coles, Cecil Clutton, John C. Lewis, Roger Snewin, Derek Baldwin, Paul Hale, Revd. John Stanbury, J.R.D. Hibberd & Ron Caine 45

Corno Dolce 49

Editorial Offers – J.S. Bach Organ Works 53

Review Section: Organ and Choral Music reviewed by Paul Hale & Jeremy Walbank 55

Gordon Phillips – an appreciation K.S. Shenton 59

Ambrose Porter – a centenary appreciation K.S. Shenton 63

Music in Worship – The Crisis Stanley Webb 65

The English Organ Festival Jeremy Walbank 67

IAO Benevolent Fund 68

Association News 69

Obituary 70

Index to Advertisers 70

 

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1985 marks the Tercentenary of the birth of G.F. Handel and the Quartocentenary of the death of Thomas Tallis