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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: Simon Gledhill on the Mighty Wurlitzer\nEvent Url: 
 http://www.artsboston.org/event/detail/441207429/Simon_Gledhill_on_the_Mig
 hty_Wurlitzer\nEvent Date Begin: 2011-07-02\nEvent Date End: 2011-07-02\n
 \nSimon was born in Halifax\, West Yorkshire\, UK in 1965 and showed a kee
 n interest in music from an early age. He began learning to play the piano
  accordion shortly before his sixth birthday and continued with that instr
 ument for eleven years\, winning several competitions along the way. When 
 he was ten\, his parents purchased a small electronic organ. After initial
 ly teaching himself to play it\, he commenced formal studies with a local 
 teacher\, Michael Woodhead\, who gave him extensive tuition in classical o
 rgan and piano.\n\nSimon's first experience of the theatre pipe organ was 
 hearing the late Ernest Broadbent play the Mighty Wurlitzer at Blackpool's
  Tower Ballroom. He subsequently discovered that a local\, privately-owned
  instrument could be hired out by the hour\, and began making weekly pract
 ice visits. In 1982 he entered and won the Northern Young Theatre Organist
  of the Year competition. Nigel Ogden\, presenter of BBC Radio 2's The Org
 anist Entertains\, was in the audience\, and invited him to make some reco
 rdings for the programme on the BBC theatre organ at the Playhouse Studio 
 in Manchester.\n\nThe broadcasts resulted in a flurry of concert offers\, 
 and Simon has since performed at all the major theatre organ venues in Bri
 tain\, as well as touring in Germany\, Holland\, Australia\, Canada and th
 e USA. In America\, he has played at such prestigious venues as the Chicag
 o Theatre\, the Oakland Paramount Theatre and Pasadena Civic Auditorium (w
 here ex-Reginald Foort/BBC five-manual M&ouml\;ller theatre organ now resi
 des). There have been 11 appearances at Annual and Regional Conventions of
  the American Theatre Organ Society\, and Simon was honoured to accept the
  ATOS Organist of the Year award at the Society's 1997 Annual Convention.
 \n\nSimon combines his concert and recording activities with work for the 
 Cinema Organ Society\, Britain's leading theatre organ group\, and a full-
 time career in corporate banking\, based in London.\n\nStart time: 1:30pm
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SUMMARY:Simon Gledhill on the Mighty Wurlitzer
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