An Evening of Organ Variety
with artist
AL BOLUNGTON
On the Wurlitzer Organ
Sponsored by the
GRAND TRAVERSE BAY KIWANIS
Traverse City Central School Auditorium
Monday, Oct. 12, 1970; 8:00 p.m.
Adults $1.50
Colorful music requires, first of all, a colorful musician.
Famed British organist Al Bollington is a real
keyboard soldier of fortune. His light-fingered virtuosity
has been roundly applauded at such disassociated
but fascinating locations as the London College of
Music, trans-Atlantic steamships, British and Canadian
theatres, and even in an R.A.F. mess hall, where he
practiced Bach fugues in flight boots and gloves, ready
for his day-to-day combat flight duty during World
War II.
Bollington discovered the amazing versatility and sound
of the electronic organ for the first time when he played
"Peter Grimes" with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
He is extremely impressed with the plug-in musical
marvel, and has studied the instrument exhaustively.
Since the war, Bollington has been Canada's top theatre
organist and has done countless TV shows, concerts,
and made a name for himself as an organ arranger, recitalist,
and instructor here in the United States.
The public is cordially invited to attend the concert
which will be held at Traverse City Central School
Auditorium on Oct. 12, 1970, under the sponsorship of
Grand Traverse Bay Kiwanis.
Tickets are available from any Kiwanis member.
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