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Vierne Finale Symphony No.1


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Hmmm.. I'm convinced this is a complete spoof. I wonder how Lee Blick came across it?

 

 

I promise you it is not a hoax. Just google him and you will find he appears in several different places.

 

Being serious for a nanosecond, I am sure it is just an example of the extremes of American art. It is no co-incidence that it is the same nation who also produced Florence Foster Jenkins. The result of some people having more money than sense. :(

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The result of some people having more money than sense.  :(

 

I once watched a rather low-brow TV show profiling "salt of the earth" types who had won the National Lottery.

 

An especially plummy-voiced gentleman offered the immortal sentiment (as he viewed some rather vulgar Essex chateau complete with fake Corinthian columns) that "money can't buy taste"...

 

:P

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2 things bother me about this recording...

 

1. I couldn't play any better.

2. I have the sense not to play like that in public

 

No 1 is personally worrying in that my organ skills are so poor. No 2 bothers me because I would expect that someone who is trying to make a name for themselves (or has made a name in the US?) as an organist would show the same restraint and sense of realism about their own abilities as I do.

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Ah - yes - the video link!

 

Does anyone have a correct url, please? I tried one earlier, but it did not seem to work.

 

Thank you.

 

There's:

 

Widor (At least I think that's what it's supposed to be):

http://www.nobile.com/sound/Toccata_Sym_V_Widor.MP3

 

I must see if his postal address is online, then I can send him the Colin Hand, Widor's Toccata made Playable :(

 

And *that* video - http://www.nobile.com/html/video.html

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Thank you!

 

I tried it and it got part-way into the 'improvisation' - and then stopped.

 

On balance, whilst in a way I am grateful that it stopped, it might be entertaining to hear the entire thing.

 

Has anyone else had this experience - or does my computer need a good kicking again?

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I must see if his postal address is online, then I can send him the Colin Hand, Widor's Toccata made Playable :(

 

 

 

Thinking about this, I think it's remarkably unfair, even snobbish of me to criticise this chap - his style of playing may not be to my taste, but each to their own.

 

God, I hate it when I get a conscience attack!

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I think your first thought was good - send him a 'Hand'....

 

:(

 

Oh God, I take it all back. WTF is a Fusician?

 

From the bio page:

"Arty is a Fusician, fusing the genres of art, architecture, literature, theater, and music in one unique and startling whole. He bursts upon the stage ....."

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pcnd, let the video keep loading and buffering, when it gets to the end it starts again from the beginning and it will play smoothly all the way through.

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