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Paul Carr

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  1. I think mine's earlier 12.10pm?? I can't check easily as I'm still stranded in Chicago!
  2. A few weeks after encountering a "Swell Unison Off" stop on an organ which has no octave or sub octave couplers, I'm still scratching my head as to a use for it... The organ was of the bread-cooking variety I hasten to add... It did have a very useful switch on the side marked 'off'. (Unfortunately that did have its usual partner!)
  3. Mmmmm, I suspect in a few years I'll be supplying an alibi for Bordini too...
  4. Yes, it's 'Music Matters' and it's on now!!
  5. St Paul's Birmingham. Today, Good Friday: 2pm Via Crucis - Liszt (with projected artwork/images) O Mensch, bewein' dein Sünde gross BWV 622 - J.S. Bach Easter Day: 10am Anthem: Most Glorious Lord of Life - William H. Harris Voluntary: Incantation pour un jour Saint - Jean Langlais 6.30pm: Anthem: Blessed be the God and Father - Samuel Sebastian Wesley Voluntary: Fugue (Alleluia Pascal) - Marcel Dupré A peaceful Easter to you all. P
  6. You don't know what you're missing!
  7. Did anyone else hear BWV568 on Pipe Dreams last week - played on a Hammond C3? P.
  8. If I stopped playing 5 minutes into late time 'silence' isn't the word I use to describe the level of noise in church... It's a rare treat when the guests are quiet and I can hear what I'm playing. I used to take them on with the tutti, but these days I sit and 'play', and then pull out some stops if the noise level dips!!!
  9. Done: Guilmant, Vierne and J.S. Bach
  10. If the action is responsive to the musician attached to it, and doesn't do random unmusical things, particularly with regard to release, then it probably really doesn't matter how it happens between key and pipe. Of my top five favourite actions to play musically on; one is electric, (H&H) two are pneumatic (lewis and N& and two are mechanical (Walker and Schuke) And I rehearse getting the notes in the right order on a toaster with a decent 'pluck', except on middle F# that is! P
  11. I'm playing the Finale from his Sonata in a recital in February and also as a voluntary in January. It's a Rondo and very good fun. It's not too tricky and has one of those themes which you find yourself humming around the house... His style seems fresh to me, there's nothing else I know quite like it. Clearly 'modern' but still tuneful and accessible. P.
  12. A very Merry Christmas and prosperous New Year to you all. Paul.
  13. Me too, and better still it was preceded immediately by Andrew Carter's arrangement of the hymn itself, complete with penultimate verse ending on the subdominant, and amazing, tingle-factor last verse descant and harmonisation. BTW Both are on 'Advent from St Paul's' on the Hyperion label. A great recording. P.
  14. A certain DoM in the Midlands area has been spotted at Sainsbury's during the Sermon-creed-intercessions part of the morning service. Not still in robes though, which is a shame as that would make the anecdote perfect!
  15. The SOS toe piston is a reversible for the sostenuto - one of the rocker tabs beneath the music desk. The pistons (which are the 18 generals) can be programmed so that any one of them is the advance for the stepper - so I had them all set as the advance, making pretty sure I couldn't miss or get the wrong one! Even then, the toe pistons still relate to the numbered generals for emergencies! The most difficult thing I find about setting up organs with only generals, as is often the case on mainland Europe, is that all of the stops have to be pulled out manually - in this country one can usually use the divisionals and adjust from there. eg sw 8 = full swell then add or take as desired for the general... P
  16. I have it on cassette, they're not particularly fast and very nicely played. I was given the cassette recording in 1987 as I was learning number 5, it was an original I hasten to add, and I have the sleeve although the cassette is a copy made just as the original was starting to get mangled in my machine on a daily basis, due to wear and tear!! For an absolutely blistering performance of Trio Sonata no. 2 get hold of Olivier LATRY aux Grandes Orgues GIROUD du Grand-Bornand (Haute-Savoie). It's simply stunning in every way and it is fast, but still extremely musical playing. Needs to be heard to be believed IMHO. It's an all Bach disc "L'art de la transcription" with BWV 593, 594, 596, 645-650 and 539 in addition to the trio 585. it's on the BNL productions label so the Trio also features on "Olivier Latry: 12 des plus belles pages de sa discographie" which is an excellent disc with tracks from various organs, all impeccably played! P
  17. The recital was on 3rd October... The Bach was stunning, orchestrally conceived, yet clear. As you say the Dukas works well... The Elgar was simply breathtaking. It's not a work I know well in its orchestral form, so this was listening with fresh ears. In terms of wizardry, the colours, the build ups, the textures, etc... were something that one would have to search very far into the depths of the 'original' organ repertoire to match. Contrabordun and I also commented that if the stepper piston has an expected life-span, this performance alone has put it well into middle age or beyond. I was simply transfixed. Playig transcriptions of this magnitude is simply an art in itself. David said it had taken over 10 hours to register. Time well spent. Incidentally, I think I've found where the best point to hear the Worcester organ is now... P.
  18. Oh yes! Probably as obvious as "Will David be using the Tutti at all"
  19. So, who is going tonight? Perhaps we should have kept our badges from earlier in the year...
  20. The alternative to scissors and dining table is to do the cutting and pasting electronically, after scanning. If only an A4 printer is available then producing the scores with an eye to enlarging them to A3 works well. It's no less time-consuming and the cat gets bored waiting for something to grab out of the printer though. P.
  21. I don't think that's something that happens with anyone often, and I never have. Advertising recitals is an art in itself: who is the target audience? Will your target audience be interested/excited by the fact that there's a huge tuba/32' reed/other large sticking-out party horn/chorus of Dulcianas, etc, etc, or by the recitalist, or by the fact the console is on view by some means or other, or the fame of the building attached to the recitalist's name, or by the pieces being played. Possibly all of the above for those from the 'organ world' probably the last two or three for the rest of the vaguely interested population... Advertise that the programme will include Widor V, or some well-known transcription like the William Tell Overture and you immediately double your chances of success IMHO...
  22. ...and again when you get off the bench if your memory is as bad as mine!!
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