A top music student will return home to help save a decades-old historic organ.
Daniel Greenway, 21, has returned to his hometown to perform a public charity concert of favourite film themes at St Anne’s Church, on Aigburth Road, at 7pm on Saturday, March 25. Called a "Night at the Movies", Daniel’s performance will help raise vital funds towards the £250,000 restoration of the historic and unique 1913 Willis pipe organ.
St Anne’s organ is unique as it is a rare surviving large example of a pre-WWI Willis organ which is tonally untouched. The blowing apparatus to fill the bellows is the only one in the world still intact.
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Daniel Greenway, senior organ scholar at Keble College Oxford University, and a former Liverpool Cathedral organ scholar, said: "The St Anne’s organ restoration is expensive but worth it. I’m passionate about keeping the great English organ and choral tradition going, which was renowned across Europe, but you can only do that if the instruments exist.
"I live just around the corner so I know this organ very well and it’s very handy for me to practice on when I’m back home. But I think we’ll need a few more concerts to reach our £250,000 target."
The organ was constructed by Henry Willis and Sons which is still based in Liverpool and one of world’s most famous organ builders. Joe Wakefield, church organist and chairman of the St Anne’s Organ Restoration Fund, is organising the concert.
He added: "These organs are incredibly complex instruments with hundreds of different moving parts and pipes which is why restoring a 110-year-old organ is so expensive. Also, the entire organ must be dismantled and taken to the organ works for the work to be done.
"We have launched an Adopt-a-Pipe scheme for the public to contribute. The organ has 1,799 pipes, with the largest pipe more than 16ft tall and the smallest is less than 1/2inch, at £1 a ft so everyone can feel they own a piece."
Daniel is set to perform popular sounds such as Mission Impossible, The Great Escape, Jaws, Interstellar, ET, Titanic and Jurassic Park.
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