What is "organist"

Usage examples of "organist".

Madam Anna Bishop was making her American tour, she included San Francisco, and with her troupe came also Alfred Wilkie, tenor, and Frank Gilder of New York, an organist and pianist of high repute.

Previs to cumin over hear I tawt my organist how to grind Rule Brittany and other airs which is poplar on British Sile.

With a slight inclination of his head to the breathless audience Michael passed swiftly down the aisle and out into the night, and the organist, by tremendous self-control, kept on playing softly until the excited people who had drifted usherless into the church got themselves out into their carriages once more.

Onstage was a trio of African musicians, an organist, xylophonist, and bongo player, billed as the Kenya Orchestra Vandals.

I leave my Eastern subject I wish to recall some of the celebrated singers and organists whom I had an opportunity to hear, at their best, and with many of whom I passed happy hours musically and in pleasant companionship.

At first they were very rigorous in their approach but it quickly became apparent that their live sound was going to be rather thin without multitracking and overdubs, so when the American organist Billy Preston, whom they knew from Hamburg, stopped by Apple on the first day of recording, he was recruited by George Harrison to fill out the sound.

George Powers, and, by some arrangement, without any warning, the organist and quartette were unseated by the clique he had formed of his friends.

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The organist started up the recessional hymn, and Scott and Amanda marched triUmphantly down the aisle, all smiles.

Mr Wilkinson, later to become a bishop, preached entertaining sermons to the lighthearted Belgravians and the organist regarded the service as an opportunity to play Mendelssohn.

In 1757 he was appointed Capellmeister to the Bishop of Grosswardein, and in 1762 became conductor, and subsequently leader and organist to Archbishop Sigismund of Salzburg.

Professor Dohrmann, one of our leading musicians, was organist, also leader of orchestras, and our concerts were given with orchestral accompaniment.

In 1885 it was enlarged by Lord Grimthorpe, and the key-board was placed at the south end, so that the organist might command a view of the choristers, whether they were singing in the nave or in the choir.

This the Organist or Harpsichordist plays again and again, as often as necessary.

Walling was director, Miss Margaret Oaks and Miss Mabel Hussey were the organists during the time.