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Summer Organ Recital: Weston Jennings (USA)

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A one-off lunchtime organ concert given by international recitalist Weston Jennings.

Free with retiring collection

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While our Lunchtime Live series is taking a break for the summer, we are delighted to welcome American organist Weston Jennings to give a one-off lunchtime recital.

Weston Jennings is Director of Music and Organist of First Presbyterian Church in Tyler, TX, and a former organ scholar of Canterbury and Chelmsford Cathedrals. He is now an internationally-acclaimed performer, having given recitals in Washington, Denver, Oxford, Moscow, Berlin and many other prestigious venues.

He will play a programme including music by Mendelssohn, Boëllmann, George Shearing and Lefébure-Wély.

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