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Feb 17, 2022
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Francis Jackson Born 1917
Organist, Choirmaster, Composer
Jackson’s advanced years meant that he was one of the last in recent memory to have worked alongside some of English church music’s great figures. One such great was the organist of York Minster and composer Edward Bairstow, who in 1929 heard an 11-year-old Jackson’s talent at the piano and enrolled him as a chorister at the Minster, without
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