{"id":12,"date":"2013-08-20T10:48:21","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T10:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s486443533.websitehome.co.uk\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2025-12-16T11:34:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T11:34:45","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hdoa.org.uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the website of the Halifax and District Organists&#8217; Association which celebrated the centenary of its establishment in 2019 and so is 107 in 2026!<\/p>\n<p>We welcome everyone with an interest in &nbsp;the &#8216;King of Instruments&#8217; and the glorious music written for it over half a millennium as a member. &nbsp; &nbsp;The organ has a wonderful solo repertoire and an amazing flexibility in other important roles.&nbsp; No other instrument brings together art, craft, technology, relationship to the environment, social significance and community endeavour in the same way as the organ &#8211; and it has been doing it at least since the middle ages. You certainly don&#8217;t need to play the organ in order to join though!<\/p>\n<p>The Halifax and District Organists&#8217; Association normally holds meetings most months in the Halifax area, sometimes jointly with neighbouring associations.&nbsp; Meeting formats include talks, lecture-recitals, master-classes, social evenings, visits and solo recitals.&nbsp; We always welcome new members, and you can come along to any of our open events even without being a member! &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/m.facebook.com\/pg\/HXDOA\/photos\/\">Facebook<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Halifax and District Organists&#8217; Association is a registered charity number 518606.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the website of the Halifax and District Organists&#8217; Association which celebrated the centenary of its establishment in 2019 and so is 107 in 2026! We welcome everyone with an interest in &nbsp;the &#8216;King of Instruments&#8217; and the glorious music written for it over half a millennium as a member. &nbsp; &nbsp;The organ has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hdoa.org.uk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Welcome<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdoa.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdoa.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdoa.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdoa.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdoa.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdoa.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":712,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdoa.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions\/712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdoa.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}