Tuesday 20 January 2009

DURBAN - Save the Organ Campaign

The Durban City Hall organ’s revival would certainly enhance the performance spectrum of symphonic music played in our city’s prime concert venue. Its mute status stands as a massively visible blot on the cultural environment of our city. Talk of replacing it with an electronic substitute is way off the mark, and simply uninformed. One may as well ditch the superb Steinway concert grand piano heard each season, and replace it with an electronic keyboard. Originally-crafted acoustic instruments require constant respect and maintenance to yield their full potential. The results on an artistic level need no special pleading. In the light of the Durban City Hall currently undergoing restoration it seems perverse that its crown jewel remains an abandoned relic.The grand Durban organ was original installed in what is now the Post Office and moved to the much larger civic venue which still houses it today. bringing ‘Our Organ’ back to life. You can e-mail Gibela Backpackers Lodge - Durban on gibela@gibela.co.za expressing your concern, which we will lobby with the releant authorities.

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