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Mark Shepherd is Director of Music at Charterhouse School and it is a rare privilege to hear him as a performer.

The 5 manual organ at Hammerwood Park is intended to put the King of Instruments back into the concert repertoire. With the decline of organs and organists in churches, overtaken by drums and guitars, the decline of church choirs introducing organs to young people and the removal of organs from cinemas, the organ has lost the enthusiasm which former generations had for it. So organists are always welcome to perform at Hammerwood or to rehearse for major cathedral concerts elsewhere.

Mark is playing in Washington DC in July 2009 at the National Shrine

Vierne commented that this Toccata was not intended to be played in church.