Reginald Foort

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Reginald Foort

Reginald John Foort (23 January 1893 – 22 May 1980), FRCO, ARCM, was a cinema organist and theatre organist. He was the first official BBC Staff Theatre Organist from 1936 to 1938, during which time he made 405 broadcasts on the organ at St George's Hall, Langham Place. 'Reggie' was a hugely popular broadcaster in his heyday in the late 1930s and 1940s in Britain and later settled in the United States, where he similarly enjoyed an illustrious career performing and recording.

Birth and Death Data: Born January 23, 1893 (Daventry), Died May 22, 1980 (Pasadena)

Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1926 - 1939

Roles Represented in DAHR: organ

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= Recordings were issued from this master. No recordings issued from other masters.

Recordings (Results 1-25 of 32 records)

Company	Matrix No.	Size	First Recording Date	Title	Primary Performer	Description	Role
Gramophone	0ER333	10-in.	1/20/1939	Finlandia	Reginald Foort	Organ solo	instrumentalist, organ
Gramophone	0E334	10-in.	1/20/1939	Finlandia	Reginald Foort	Organ solo	instrumentalist, organ
Gramophone	CR651	12-in.	8/29/1926	In a Persian market	Reginald Foort	Organ solo	instrumentalist, organ
Gramophone	CR652	12-in.	8/29/1926	In a monastery garden	Reginald Foort	Organ solo	instrumentalist, organ
Decca	39586	10-in.	6/9/1935	Londonderry air	Reginald Foort		instrumentalist, organ
Decca	39587	10-in.	6/9/1935	Second serenade	Reginald Foort		instrumentalist, organ
Decca	39588	10-in.	6/9/1935	Reminiscences of Chopin, part 1	Reginald Foort		instrumentalist, organ
Decca	39589	10-in.	6/9/1935	Reminiscences of Chopin, part 2	Reginald Foort		instrumentalist, organ
Decca	39590	10-in.	6/9/1935	Handel's largo	Reginald Foort		instrumentalist, organ
Decca	39591	10-in.	6/9/1935	The rosary	Reginald Foort		instrumentalist, organ
Decca	39592	10-in.	6/10/1935	The lost chord	Reginald Foort		instrumentalist, organ
Decca	39593	10-in.	6/10/1935	Lead kindly light	Reginald Foort		instrumentalist, organ
Decca	39594	10-in.	6/10/1935	Beautiful isle of somewhere	Reginald Foort		instrumentalist, organ
Decca	39595	10-in.	6/10/1935	The old rugged cross	Reginald Foort		instrumentalist, organ
Decca	39596	10-in.	6/10/1935	Hungarian rhapsody No. 2 (Brahms), part 1	Reginald Foort		instrumentalist, organ
Decca	39597	10-in.	6/10/1935	Hungarian rhapsody No. 2 (Brahms), part 2	Reginald Foort		instrumentalist, organ
Decca	39600	10-in.	6/11/1935	Dead march in soul	Reginald Foort		instrumentalist, organ
Decca	39601	10-in.	6/11/1935	Cavatina	Reginald Foort		instrumentalist, organ
Decca	39602	10-in.	6/11/1935	In a monastery garden	Reginald Foort		instrumentalist, organ
Decca	39603	10-in.	6/11/1935	Poet and Peasant overture, partl	Reginald Foort		instrumentalist, organ
Decca	39604	10-in.	6/11/1935	Poet and Peasant overture, part 2	Reginald Foort		instrumentalist, organ
Decca	39609	10-in.	6/12/1935	A perfect day	Reginald Foort		instrumentalist, organ
Decca	39610	10-in.	6/12/1935	When day is done	Reginald Foort		instrumentalist, organ
Decca	39611	10-in.	6/12/1935	I love you truly	Reginald Foort		instrumentalist, organ
Decca	39612	10-in.	6/12/1935	Oh promise me	Reginald Foort		instrumentalist, organ

(Results 1-25 of 32 records)

Citation

Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Foort, Reginald," accessed April 16, 2024, https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/107153.

Foort, Reginald. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved April 16, 2024, from https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/107153.

"Foort, Reginald." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 16 April 2024.