A FAMOUS ORGANIST'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY
' "Sir • Frederick Bridge, who has rsj signed the orj;anship of Wesfcminstei) Abbey, has mitten, his autobiography,'* says' the 'Daily News." "If is called f A Westminster Pilgrimage.' "Tho organist, of the Abbey liveq ill; the' Litlington Tower, aiid tnora hvecl' Jiis predecessor, the greatest of English/,' composers, Heniy Purcell.. .The cutlooki from tho study window transports us kt) once-into the seventeenth century, and, the world of London might be soored of. ,mile3..away,„ It is. a room full vt memories.; As>the visitor walks up tha stairs Sir Frederick tells him that he Iff treading on the same steps that Lad? Hamilton, Nelson's Lady Hamilton, usetl to clean when she win a maid employed br Mr. Dare, probably a vicar ohoraT of the Abbey. - Sir Frederick Bridgn hold the post of 'organist t'rom 1875 till the end of last year; only one of his pre" decessoys had a longer, term of office"
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 199, 17 May 1919, Page 7
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154A FAMOUS ORGANIST'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 199, 17 May 1919, Page 7
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