43rd Annual Review
John Hargraves MNZM | Director
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The June 2010-11 year has been an enormous rollercoaster rushing from the dizzy heights of Joseph Nolan’s Congress recital and the Congress Choir’s performance of my father’s “Brief Mass” at Timaru’s Sacred Heart Basilica just 3 weeks after his death, to the black depths of the devastating loss of Neil Stocker, Scott Lucy and Paul Dunlop in the 22nd Feb. earthquake collapse of Durham St Church.
In and around these events were highlighted the February 15th opening of our major restoration project for the year by Dianne Halliday at St Peter’s on Willis in Wellington, completion of the 1954 Croft overhaul in the restored Mt Eden Village Methodist Church, opening of the restored c.1860 chamber organ in the Bluestone Church of Wesley College, Clunes VIC. and the dedication of the Geoffrey Gates Memorial Fanfare Trumpet at St George’s Cathedral in Perth WA.