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	Sydney Opera House Grand Organ - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sydney Opera House Grand Organ is a large pipe organ by Ronald Sharp, located in the concert hall of Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia.
		It is in six divisions, five manuals plus pedals, and is the largest tracker action organ ever built, with 131 speaking stops served by 200 ranks of pipes consisting of 10,154 pipes.
		The contract for the construction of the organ was awarded in 1969, during the construction of the Opera House, and the organ was completed in 1979, six years after the opening of the building.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sydney_Opera_House_Grand_Organ (292 words)

	Interesting facts Visitor Information Sydney Australia
		Sydney is Australia's largest and most cosmopolitan city, the capital of New South Wales and the most heavily populated state in Australia.
		The Sydney Opera House is one of the busiest performing arts centres in the world, with 2,300 performances annually (compared to the Kennedy Centre (USA) which has 3,000 performances annually.
		The grand organ in the Sydney Opera House is recognised as the world’s largest mechanical action organ; it has 10,000 pipes grouped in 200 ranks, and is positioned 10 metres above the floor of the Concert Hall.
	www.sydneyaccom.com /isVisitor/1/14 (609 words)

	Construct My Future (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		For these reasons, the Sydney Opera House is recognized as one of the world's most distinctive architectural designs and dominates not only the harbor but also the entire Sydney skyline.
		Fourteen years in the making, the Sydney Opera House was opened on October 23, 1973 by Queen Elizabeth II and celebrated its 25th Birthday in October, 1998.
		The Concert Hall Grand Organ was designed by an Australian musician, took 10 years to build, and is the largest mechanical tracker organ in the world with its 10,500 pipes.
	www.constructmyfuture.com /hall-sydney.html (418 words)

	Sydney Opera House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Sydney Opera House in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia is one of the most distinctive and famous 20th-century buildings, and one of the most famous performing arts venues in the world.
		The roofs of the House are constructed of 1,056,000 glazed white granite tiles, imported from Sweden.
		The five consitutent theatres of the Sydney Opera House are the Concert Hall (with a seating capacity of 2679), the Opera Theatre (1547 seats), the Drama Theatre (544 seats), the Playhouse (398 seats) and the Studio Theatre (364 seats).
	www.travelballoon.com /?n=SydneyOperaHouse (338 words)

	House Opera Ticket Wicked (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		America's opera houses present an eclectic collection of buildings, from converted warehouses to ornate vaudevillian venues house opera ticket wicked and modern concrete house opera ticket wicked and glass structures.
		Almost 140 vintage house opera ticket wicked and recent photographs bring to life these magnificent buildings house opera ticket wicked and the operatic scenes enacted on their stages.
		Sydney Opera House Grand Organ - The Sydney Opera House Grand Organ is a large pipe organ by Ronald Sharp, located in the concert hall of Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia.
	www.go2opera.com /houseoperaticketwicked.html (931 words)

	Sydney Opera House construction.
		The Sydney Opera House was officially opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on 20 October 1973.
		The Concert Hall Grand Organ was designed and built by Australian, Ronald Sharp, between 1969 and 1979.
		The Opera Theatre, seating 1,547, is mainly used for performances of opera, ballet and dance.
	www.gids.nl /sydney/opera.html (1899 words)

	GRANDORGAN
		The Grand Organ was designed and built, during the period 1969 to 1979, by the Sydney organ-builder Ronald Sharp, assisted by Mark Fisher, Myk Fairhurst and Raymond Bridge, his personal staff.
		The new organ at Knox Grammar School in 1966 was the first product of this team and the instrument won the admiration of English organist Peter Hurford, who recorded for Decca on both the Knox organ and the new organ, also by Sharp, for Wollongong Town Hall.
		The organ is built on a cantilevered steel platform, overlaid with a 100mm thick floor of laminated brush-box timber and it is all contained in a shell-like concrete chamber.
	home.vicnet.net.au /~ohta/Sydney_conf/GRANDORGAN.html (744 words)

	The Gunsmoke Files
		Sydney's Opera House has become such an icon of the land down under that it's hard to imagine there was a time, not so very long ago, when the locals were vehemently opposed to its very existence.
		But for all the grandeur of the Opera House when viewed from the outside, it's not until one steps indoors that it's possible to realize just what an architectural marvel this is. No less than five theatres hang from the shells which make up the roof, like so much stage scenery.
		The Concert Hall and Opera Theatre are each contained in the two largest groups of shells, and the other theatres are located on the sides of the shell groupings.
	gunsmoke.blogspot.com (1029 words)

	Sydney Trivia :: Sydney Media :: City of Sydney
		Sydney is one of the most multicultural and multilingual cities in the world, with people from more than 180 nations, speaking 140 languages.
		Sydney was founded on 26 January 1788, when the First Fleet arrived to establish the penal colony of New South Wales (NSW).
		Sydney escaped World War II relatively unscathed, although on May 31 1942, several Japanese midget submarines were discovered and destroyed in Sydney Harbour.
	www.sydneymedia.com.au /html/2282-sydney-trivia.asp (3419 words)

	SydneyOperaHouse: History, Pictures, Information.
		The shells of the Opera HouseThe theatres are housed in a series of large shells, conceived by dissecting a hemisphere.
		The Sydney Opera House can be said to have had its beginnings during the late 1940s in the endeavours of Eugene Goossens, the Director of the NSW State Conservatorium of Music at the time, who lobbied to have a suitable venue for large theatrical productions built.
		During the Sydney 2000 Olympics in September and October 2000, the bridge was adorned with the Olympic Rings.
	www.sydneyoperahouse.biz (4422 words)

	Sydney Opera House - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Opera House was formally opened by Queen Elizabeth II, in her capacity as Queen of Australia, on October 20, 1973, which crowds of millions attended.
		It was performed by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Charles Mackerras and with accompanying singer Birgit Nilsson.
		During the construction of the Opera House, a number of lunchtime performances were arranged for the workers, with Paul Robeson the first artist to perform at the (unfinished) Opera House in 1960.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sydney_Opera_House (2566 words)

	Tradition, Family, and Property
		The Sydney Opera House grand organ boasts of 10,000.
		He was interested in organs since he was a young boy and laments the fact he first visited the Grand Court only eight years ago.
		Organs may come and go but there is nothing like the Wanamaker on planet earth.
	www.tfp.org /TFPForum/AmComm/America/the_wanamaker.html (1548 words)

	SYDNEY 2000
		Sydney was on everyone's mind when that spectacular fireworks display was one of the first to herald in the year 2000.
		The Opera House, definitely not a venue to find a theatre organ but this is where I ended up playing the Grand Organ in the Concert Hall one evening.
		The Grand Organ was designed and built by Australian, Ronald Sharp, between 1969 and 1979 and is the largest mechanical tracker action organ in the world.
	www.girdwood.co.uk /sydney1.html (803 words)

	TWF: searching: sydney opera house 2
		RE Curtis was commissioned by the Sydney Opera House Trust to document the evolving building.
		November 1954, concerning the question of the establishment of an Opera House in Sydney.
		Sydney Opera House in its harbour setting: nomination of Sydney Opera House in its harbour setting for inscription on the World heritage List by the Government of Australia 1994 / jointly prepared by the Commonwealth Department of the Environment, Sports and Territories and the NSW Department of Urban Affairs and Planning.
	www.twf.org.au /search/soh2.html (783 words)

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		He was the first organist to record the Sydney Opera House Grand Organ (with orchestra) on the critically acclaimed album of music from the film Breaker Morant.
		David SMITH, a native of Victoria, was introduced to the organ at the age of three as he sat beside his mother at the console of the pipe organ she regularly played.
		Robert is keenly interested in the mechanics of the theatre pipe organ and closely followed the restoration and reinstallation of TOSA Queensland's 3/11 Christie in Kelvin Grove High School.
	www.tosa.net.au /TOSASITE/FeatureArtists.html (2533 words)

	Sydney Info
		Sydney has set a new Olympic record by completing all the venues at the main Games precinct at Homebush Bay some nine months before the start of the 2000 Games.
		Sydney has some wonderful restaurant and café precincts where the atmosphere is lively and there are plenty of opportunities to eat, people- watch and shop.
		Sydney’s Central Business District shopping precinct is the area bordered by Market, Castlereagh, King and George Streets, with the Pitt Street Mall somewhere in the middle.
	www.ozbnbdir.com /sydney-info.htm (1089 words)

	Florida Organ Works
		YOU CAN have an organ where every stop is uniquely generated by real-time sampling at the source.
		Organs by Johannus offer a refreshing change for the American ear - an ear that has gotten accustomed to synthetic "surround" sound, much in the way we find ourselves accustomed to many other synthetic products.
		Over the past 12 months, we have taught introductory organ courses to students, supported church conventions in a variety of denominations, supported worship and taught keyboard workshops in Australia and Malaysia and continue to seek innovative ways to keep the organ an active part of worship in today's churches.
	www.floridaorganworks.com /about.html (417 words)

	WWUH Articles: Sunday Afternoon at the Opera March/Arpil 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sunday March 5: As an opera composer Filippo Marchetti (1831-1902) is the link between the established mid-nineteenth century operatic style of Verdi and the new stylistic movement that came to be called Verismo.
		After hundreds of performances in opera houses worldwide in the nineteenth century Ruy Blas clings to the fringe of the twentieth century repertoire.
		Linley’s choruses are monumentally grand in the Handelian manner.
	www.wwuh.org /program/articles/marap00/opera.htm (2098 words)

	Passages from my Autobiography
		A gang of housebreakers having broken into her house at Grantham in the middle of the night, she went alone to discover what was the matter, and found a man getting in at the window.
		The opera was very bad, but the sole lustre with which it was lighted with gas (I believe for the first time) was beyond all description, and well worth going any distance to see.
		His varied accomplishments enlivened a country house, his brilliant wit formed the delight of a dinner-table; while his singular charm of manner, and, perhaps, of character, gave a permanency to his social success by converting the admirers of an evening into friends for life.
	www.sydneyowenson.com /Autobiography_a.html (15664 words)

	Opera House celebrates 30 years (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Taken during the construction of the House, the photos captured the evolution of the shell-like sails which cut a distinctive figure across Sydney's skyline and inspired part of the Sydney Olympics logo, although they were once decried as "shark's teeth".
		An Opera House spokeswoman said the tours drew about 40,000 people and the interest was worldwide.
		Jan Utzon, who studied architecture in Sydney while his father worked on The House, said that despite the acrimony of the 1960s, his dad had fond memories of the project.
	www.theage.com.au - !http: //www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/10/19/1066502068112.html (416 words)

	IFSSH & IFSHT :: HAND IN HAND :: SYDNEY 2007 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The evening starts with a leisurely cruise across Sydney harbour with the opportunity to enjoy the sun setting over the Opera House, the city skyline and the harbour bridge.
		Sydney has undoubtedly the most beautiful harbour in the world and there is no better way to see it than from the water.
		A unique afternoon exploring Sydney’s Aboriginal culture and a rare glimpse of the art, landscape and people of Australia as they were 200 years ago and beyond.
	www.hands2007.com /Social_Program.htm (1249 words)

	House of horrors - smh.com.au
		The Opera House isn't too young to be haunted.
		Hailed as a horror masterpiece, the haunting impact of its disfigured antihero (played by Lon Chaney) and his violent, obsessive love for an opera singer (Mary Philbin) was rivalled only by the lavishness of its $US1 million Hollywood production, which included sequences in Technicolor, which was cutting-edge technology at the time.
		His performance at the Opera House harks back to the days when silent films were shown in grand movie palaces with live musical accompaniment.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/01/30/1043804461887.html (785 words)

	Shepherd School of Music - THOMAS JABER
		Jaber served as Principal Coach in the 1992 season of the Chautauqua Opera.
		Jaber was chosen as vocal coach for the Opera Company of Philadelphia/Luciano Pavarotti International Competition and also served as an Assistant Conductor of the Opera Company of Philadelphia.
		He is scheduled to conduct a Church Music Festival in the Sydney, Australia Opera House in July, 2007.
	www.ruf.rice.edu /~musi/facultybios/jaber.html (879 words)

	National Initiatives: Great American Voices Military Base Tour - Sweeney Todd
		All this notwithstanding, Sweeney Todd is deeply rooted in a style of music drama more characteristic of the opera house than of Broadway or Hollywood, and for all its wonderfully (one is tempted to say "deliciously") comic moments, it has next to nothing to do with the Rodgers-and-Hammerstein tradition in which Sondheim was raised.
		Working with a modernized version of an Anglicized Grand Guignol play based on a 19th-century melodrama based in turn on an urban legend, which in turn had been fleshed out by Bond to incorporate themes of morality and social injustice, Sondheim and company added a prologue and epilogue to frame their drama.
		Johanna's "bird in a gilded cage" entrance aria, Green Finch and Linnet Bird, is the prototype of the plaintive ballad or aria for light lyric soprano.
	arts.endow.gov /national/gav/sweenytodd.html (2993 words)

	Shepherd School of Music - Houston, TX
		The Shepherd School of Music continues its celebration of the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth by presenting his comic opera “La Finta Giardiniera” — “The Pretend Gardener” — Nov. 8, 9, 11 and 12 as part of the Leon Wilson Clark Opera Series.
		Original piano ragtime and chamber music of William Bolcom, including California Porcupine Rag; Seabiscuits Rag; Incineratorag; Trio for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano (with clarinetist Maiko Sasaki and violinist Cristian Macelaru); and Scherzo-Fantasy and Five Fold Five (for woodwind quintet and piano).
		Internationally acclaimed concert pianist Jon Kimura Parker was born, raised, and educated in Vancouver.
	www.ruf.rice.edu /~musi/featured/index.html (537 words)

	Carthalia - Sydney: Opera House
		Originally intended for opera performances, the biggest hall with 2697 seats is used as "Concert Hall" due to its insufficient acoustics.
		A smaller hall with 1547 seats is used for opera performances.
		Its Grand Organ is the largest mechanical action organ in the world with over 10,500 pipes."
	www.andreas-praefcke.de /carthalia/world/aus_sydney_opera.htm (406 words)

	CBC.ca - Arts - Art & Design - Crowd Pleaser (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Diamond says he loathes opera houses that are self-consciously spectacular, preferring buildings that “keep their powder dry, until they have the target in sight.” He likes complexes that reserve their most impressive effects for the concert halls themselves, not the exterior or assorted foyers.
		“Opera has been described as the art form born with the silver spoon in its mouth,” says Diamond.
		Hardly an opera buff, this Labor politician and former railroad worker preferred such populist pieces as The Donkey Serenade.
	www.cbc.ca /arts/artdesign/opera.html (2183 words)

	Bathtub Music \| John Martin, Sydney Mandolins, Michael Hooper, Greg van der Struik, Derek Strahan, Lawrence Bartlett : ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This brief work was composed in 1985 to mark the tercentenary of Johann Sebastian Bach's birthday and was first performed on July 11th of that year in St. Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney, by Canon Lawrence Bartlett in its original version for organ which he also recorded for the JADE CD label.
		He is a graduate of The Sydney Conservatorium and for the past three years lecturer on the ensemble study staff of the Sydney Conservatorium.
		This new generation 2.2M grand piano was commissioned by J. Albert & Sons Pty Ltd for their Tiger Recording Studios, Sydney and embodies Stuart & Sons hallmark design features that produce extraordinary tonal clarity, dynamic range and sustain.
	www.bathtubmusic.com /album.php?id=1578 (1794 words)

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