FOR SAMUEL BECKETT - ORGAN MARATHON
30-31 August 2025
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! 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, Kat will have two registrants by her side the whole time, randomly pulling stops and morphing and moulding the soundscape as they please.
The organ responsible for bringing this piece to life is 124 years old and in desperate need of repair so this performance will also act as a fundraising drive to repair it and see it through the next hundred years!
Entry is free, but you can make a donation here.
At Heath Street Baptist Church. See map and get directions.
Introducing the organist:
Kat Farn
Introducing the composer:
Matthew Lee Knowles
