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Former DEEP PURPLE Keyboardist To Star In Cathedral Premiere

October 20, 2007

Sunderland Echo reports: Durham Cathedral will be packed with more than 1,000 music fans tonight for the premiere of the Durham Concerto, by Jon Lord, a founder member of rock group DEEP PURPLE.

The concerto was commissioned to celebrate the 175th anniversary of Durham University.

Its musical influences are said to span jazz, ragtime, rock and Northumbrian folk music, including a contemporary version of an old miners' lament.

The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra will perform the piece with four soloists, including Northumbrian piper Kathryn Tickell and Lord.

He will play the Hammond organ, an instrument he first came across in his days with DEEP PURPLE.

Lord, 65, is perhaps best known for his four- or five-minute rock songs, but he has always written longer pieces as well.

It was his desire to concentrate on the orchestral works which led him to leave DEEP PURPLE in 2002.

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