TOCCATA TUESDAYS

Weekly Organ Concerts 
August 2019

Featuring - Dr Simon Lindley
6 August – DONCASTER MINSTER St George DN1 1RD
13 August – SWINTON St Margaret S64 8EG
20 August – WARMSWORTH St Peter DN4 0TW [The “White Church”]
27 August – DONCASTER Baptist Church, Chequer Road DN1 2AL
All concerts began at 7.30pm with free admission

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A retiring collection at each concert in support of the Millennium Fund of Doncaster Choral Society last year raised in excess of £1000 – a fund which enables the choir to continue the presentation of high quality concerts in Doncaster with professional orchestra and soloists.

The music at each recital was a fascinating blend of ancient and modern, featuring particularly well-known and popular pieces contrasting with standard organ repertoire and works of greater historic significance.

​Doncaster Choral Society is immensely indebted to the incumbents and church authorities at each venue for the warmth of their welcome. Each recital was followed by Refreshments laid on by church members.

​Again this August, Doncaster Choral Society conductor Dr Simon Lindley was in South Yorkshire in and around Doncaster every Tuesday evening to present a light-hearted concert of an hour's duration in his popular annual TOCCATA TUESDAYS series.

Toccatas: Bach, Guilmant, Hurford, Hunt, Paradies, Yon &c

Popular solos including: Highland Cathedral, Nimrod, Cantique, Variations for Mandolin, Washington Post, Imperial March, Moonlight and Roses, Bells across the Meadow, 
and much more besides! 

We would like to express our sincere gratitude to Simon Lindley for all the time he gives in preparing for and performing these concerts which are always so appreciated by all who come.

THE ORGANIST
Simon Lindley is one of Britain’s most popular concert organists. He gives regular recitals from his home base in Leeds at five significant West Riding venues – Leeds Town Hall, Leeds Minster, Halifax Minster, Pontefract Parish Church and the historic Fulneck Moravian Church near Pudsey. Each building houses a fine organ of major significance. There are weekly concerts on Mondays at 1.05 pm at the Town Hall from September through to Easter, and also on Fridays at the Minster the whole year round except during the month of August, when the church’s lunch-time presentations – from 12.30 to 1.05 pm each Friday – are replaced by Sunday evening events commencing at 5.30 pm.
Simon Lindley says:
I am thrilled, once again, to be able to give a further series of concerts in support of the great work undertaken each season by the enthusiastic and committed members of Doncaster Choral Society. The Doncaster Choir is one of the jewels in Yorkshire’s musical crown and it is a real pleasure, as well as a privilege, to be able to work with these wonderful singers on a regular basis in rehearsal and concert. The Society deserves all the support that can be mustered to assist it in its laudable endeavours.
Photo taken at the Swinton Toccata Tuesday recital on 13 August.
Darren Williams, Director of Music at Doncaster Minster, along with Elli-Mae McGlone, organ scholar, and Simon following the recital on 6 August.