Paul Morley
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...and someone with 2 terms tuition and a Grade 5 pass can get into one of the country's top 5 establishments as an organist, that might be a valid point.
Good grief! Are you serious?
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My most disconcerting experience as a pit musician took place whilst playing for a week at the Lyceum Theatre in Crewe (pre-restoration and the tidal wave of H&S legislation that has since engulfed us all). The bass player and I spent most of our non-playing time trying to prevent the water that was running down the pit walls from coming into contact with the mains socket into which his amplifier was plugged.
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Didn't JSB specify that one be should added to the Pedal division at Mulhausen?
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In the West End, many pit musicians watch the conductor via CCTV. Suspicions are sometimes raised that there is a delay that causes problems with the ensemble.
TANGENT ALERT
When the theatre of the Liverpool Instutue for Performing Arts was created (within the superstructure of a school hall, of course), there was no room for a pit. Orchestra and conductor play in a room a couple of floors away. All communication between stage, audience and instrumetalists is achieved though audio visual links
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..it had, to quote the instigator of the destruction, its 'heart torn out' on Monday 14th and most of it was 'chopped up' on Tuesday 15th. RIP.
Do I detect a note of satisfaction (or even glee) in the destroyer's comments?
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I believe that there's wording in the legislation prescribing the the maximum performance time/length of the photocopied extract, and also a stipulation that the extract should not be make musical sense on its own (in other words, not a complete movement, however short).
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Crass insensitivity on that organist's part.
Peter
...not to say a grossly over-inflated sense of his own importance. Does he really think that a parish organist having a bad day is as significant as an air traffic controller having a bad day?
If, during my time as organist at a parish church with a strong musical tradition, someone who was preparing for ARCO had approached me with an offer to do some depping, I would have been delighted!!
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On some instruments another "unintended consequence" of having the great reeds available on the choir is the opportunity to use the choir octave and sub-octave couplers with the great reeds and then couple the result back to the great ...
Probably not an unintended conseuqence c.1920.
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The Apse (East) organ at Westminster Cathedral is certainly by Lewis & Co. Ltd, (not T.C. Lewis). The firm adopted this name in 1884, when it became a limited company...I think this is the first time I have made public this information.
Kind regards,
Stephen D. Smith
Webmaster, organrecitals.com (www.organrecitals.com)
President, Atlantic City Convention Hall Organ Society (www.acchos.org)
Honorary Curator of the World's Largest Organ (www.boardwalkhall.com/organs.asp)
Many thanks for this fascinating post.
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Gt Reeds on Ped is a particularly useful device on large romantic instruments where the 32/16/8 Pedal reed rank is only really usable with/against full organ.
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I do wish there was some kind of conformity within the Church of England, is this too much to ask?
Well, of course it is!!
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...This type of solo stop without the biggest and most expensive pipes seems to have become more prevalent in the 50s and 60s when budgets became smaller yet people wanted more and more organ stuffed into a smaller space...
I'm sure that this was the real reason – despite the dodgy claims made by builders and consultants that there was artistic rationale behind the practice.
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At the church where I played last Sunday, the vicar informed the congregation that the common cup would not be withdrawn at next week's Eucharist, but that arrangements would be made so that communicants could receive either in one or both kinds, as they saw fit. She closed her remarks with the words,
'Friends, you are adults, and I intend to treat you as adults'.
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On my youth, I once played for four weddings at three different churches over the course of one Saturday. This being densely populated North Manchester, the distances between venues was not that great. However, thirty years on, I think that I'd be ill-advised to repeat the exercise using a bike as my means of transport.
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One could argue that by using the word 'concert' to describe an organ recital, the promoter or performer is demonstrating that s/he considers the organ to be an 'orchestra in a box'.
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...a far better 'instrument' upon which to perform this piece than the RNCM organ lurking in the background, I would suggest.
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A terrible timelag though, if one were playing at Mattins.
What I'm really interested in is what happens after you push it in - the Après Midi to Pedal experience.
You can then play a transcription of Prelude de l'apres midi
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...my tuba goes to 11
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Many thanks for these, Ben.
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At least AJJ's and MSW's experiences were the result of a genuine accident. A PA operator once attempted to drown me out by playing a worship song CD through the sound system.
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Suggest to anyone involved in advertising for an audience that they should restrict their adverts to a single outlet because multiple adverts are redundant, and wait for the hysterical laughter...
Paul
...suggest to anyone in business that advertising is immoral or unethical, and wait for the same hysterical laughter...
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There is adequate coverage of forthcoming concerts provided by Steve Dunk and under www.organrecitals.com courtesy of Stephen Smith, featuring all different organ builders, so this should avoid too many individual postings hopefully.
Colin Richell.
Why should the existence of the site mentioned above, whatever its merits, deter individuals from posting on this (or any other) site?
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I have wondered if they would be able to get away with that name in the USA.
A quick Google reveals that most FDs in the States use either a family name or a location (as over here). However, a few are more shall we say 'interesting'. Here is a selection from the LA directory:
- the slightly cheesy Chapel of the Angels
- the rather B movie All Souls Mortuary
- the somewhat prosaic Affordable Burials & Cremations
- and the just plain alarming Crippen's
- the slightly cheesy Chapel of the Angels
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Dignity Funerals.
Am I alone in thinking that this is an awful name?
Why Would You Need A Glockenspiel?
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Thanks, Vox. Can we infer from this document that JSB disapproved of the proposal, or is the evidence inconclusive either way?