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Have you met Anna Lapwood?

She is the kind of minor celebrity you meet when aimlessly scrolling through Facebook.

It’s a waste of time, some say, and that might be right. But then you stumble across the organ in some vast and impressive cathedral and sitting on the bench, smiling, is the too-young-to-be-true musician by the name of Anna Lapwood.

She is 30 years old, a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music and Oxford University (Magdalen College, no less, where the famous C. S. Lewis taught for so long and where she won First Class Honors).

Lapwood is now an organist for the Royal Albert Hall. I am no insider to British cultural benchmarks but even I know this represents the top of the stack, so to speak. It is …