On the day that Queen Elizabeth II died, Matthew Larkin, the renowned Ottawa\u002Dbased organist and custodian of music at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church on Kent…
Among several videos that he posted to his Facebook account was his stirring rendition of God Save the Queen, performed on the church’s grand organ.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Ottawa SUN, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails. Postmedia Network Inc.
“I only had to take two of them,” he says. “It gives me great joy to cross my name out and put someone else’s name in.” “There were lots of these sorts of these options that I thought really contributed strongly to the life of the downtown, like what happens in Europe. Just about any day there would be an awesome free concert in a church,” Larkin says.Article content
The church organ will be featured at most but not all concerts. For example, a Nov. 15 concert will star pop-funk vocalist Rebecca Noelle, while on Dec. 20, harpist Caroline Leonardelli will perform Christmas music.Article content
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