Katia Farn - organ recital "For Samuel Beckett"

Across the last weekend in August, composer Matthew Lee Knowles and organist Katia Farn will present “For Samuel Beckett”, the longest fully notated composition ever written for the organ - this will be an entirely unique experience as Heath Street Baptist Church is filled with sound for up to twenty-seven hours in this world record breaking event. We invite anyone to join us for a minute, an hour or even longer!

The score itself is a direct translation of Beckett’s “Waiting For Godot” (initially written in French then translated into English) where the letter A becomes the musical note A. And if all this wasn’t unusual enough, Katia will have two registrants by her side the whole time, randomly pulling stops and morphing and moulding the soundscape as they please to fully utilise the organ’s resources.

The organ responsible for bringing this piece to life is 124 years old and…