Mona Foma

Do you need to listen to organ music in a church, or are these the few places that have organs? So there is always a formal, omnipresent presence to organ music.

Sitting listening to Joseph Nolan playing organ in St Marys Cathedral, Hobart, feels like large country town, long sleeve cotton shirts, middle aged men in city clothes. Ladies in summer frocks.

Quiet in the cathedral but for the tapping of a keyboard and the occassional squall of a child, and of course the sound of the music rising and falling in waves.

Not much air in the church. one can imagine the heat in summer's gone by in a hot Hobart afternoon, with the congregation creating its own steam, human heat raising the temperature.

Joanne Kee
www.ceressolutions.com.au