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Birmingham City Organist Thomas Trotter Picture: Ibi Keita

A Celebratory 40th Anniversary Concert

Thomas Trotter

Symphony Hall

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If anyone currently deserves to be honoured with the Freedom of the City of Birmingham, or by membership of the Freemen, it would surely be Thomas Trotter.

He may perhaps have been granted both already.

The virtuoso organist, who was back at Symphony Hall at the weekend for a particularly special occasion, is devoted to Birmingham, having been appointed its City Organist exactly 40 years ago, in 1983, when he was still in his mid-twenties.

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How many metropoles in Britain have a ‘City Organist’? One who gives regular recitals on the dazzling ‘King of Instruments’, infecting audiences with music they know and love, but also introducing them to unfamiliar or indeed new repertoire?

Liverpool, Leeds and Nottingham, to their credit, have one. And Edinburgh. But not most.

There were wonders in store at this concert