heva
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You can also wonder if 'technique' is understood here as (only) the fingers/arms in motion, or the technique as described by Heinrich Neuhaus - as a complete mental image, a complete understanding and knowing of what is written down and hearing it inside your head, which should hardly need conventional fingerexercise (btw. this is quite similar as how Arcadi Volodos describes his own technique - saw him play rach3 last week, just couldn't believe what I saw...).
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About six months ago I applied for a DoM job at a church. Naturally this was a job I _really_ wanted.. Anyway, the incumbent appointed an "independent assessor" to oversee the interviews. Turned out I was the only candidate. After a rigorous going over, they decided not to offer me the job.
Fair dos. I was disappointed, but that's life.
Thing is, six months later, I have just heard that the "independent assessor" has been appointed permanently to the post! Now I feel like I've been taken for a mug. Bah. How would you feel in this situation? Is drink the only option to dull my pain? Your comments welcome...
I have an exact similar case, but the application was a test for me (how far can I get?) Since I wouldn't have taken up the job anyway I was annoyed by the procedure but not much changed for me.
It's scandalous though ...
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Wondering where it will end up in Holland
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Nice!
Put some minimal music under the video and you have your own Koyaaniskatsi ...
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I've heard Dorothy Papadakos play the StJtD Skinner play in a broadway musical style (does she do anythinge else?) - so why no Elton John there? His performance at Lady Di's funeral was moving, and that's what (church)music is about?
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The Late Rick van der Linden from Exception had a classical (organ) training.
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Nice also ...
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I''ve often wonderd whether pneumatic motors positioned to shake the choir stalls might be more effective.
Aren't these called diaphones?
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...if you're all well behaved,
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Bummer ....
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The only one I have is now on with the other pictures....it's a bit rough and ready, but I'll see what else the Cathedral Library might have in its records...
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Any pictures of the rumoured concrete (bottom parts of the) diaphones? Please document as much as possible before it's too late ...
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My original copy of the John Scott/Hyperion Durufle CD, which I bought when it was released, succumbed to the infamous brown rot that has affected many Hyperion discs, and I only recently got round to replacing it. But here's the thing: on my original disc, I'm sure the Prelude to the Suite began with what I always assumed was another variant, subsequently revised and not present in my score: while the opening Bb is held, and before the pedal entry, there was a nice squishy chord on the strings. I rather liked it. But on my new copy of the CD, which is apparently an exact replacement for the old one, the string chord has vanished! It's some years since I listened to the old CD, but I'm sure I can't have imagined the different opening. Can anyone with an original copy of the CD confirm this?
I think I can confirm this - must a have a copy on MC somewhere in the attic with that cord on it. I do remember this cord not being in the scores I have and considered it being the copy gone wrong. Now you mention it, I'll have a second look (the tape must be about 15 years old or so).
BTW. does anybody hear play the first version of the Scherzo, also quite different? I like it, though Frederic Blanc specifically asked me not play it in public (on behalf of the Durufle Association).
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The dutch organradio site has a nice broadcast with english organs, listen to it here (click on "Klik hier ....").
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BTW. Reda was German - his organ works are very interesting though quite difficult to understand (and quite bound to 'his' organ in stopselection).
Micheelsen is nice, I quite like the 'Es sungen drei Engel' concerto.
There some serenity or 'open-ness' in this 20th century German music that I find rather nice, though I doubt that it's suitable for a large® public (the french sound so much more popular ...)
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JUST LIKE THOSE BACH WOULD HAVE KNOWN SO WELL AT HOME.
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"just like" - I'm not sure about that ...
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From what I have heard of the Diaphones, getting anything from a "normal" organ to blend with them would be pretty much impossible.
I recall a fascinating conversation with Christopher Robinson a few years back about the old Tuba Profunda from the Hope-Jones pedal department which survived until the early 1970s. I believe this was double tongued and of immense proportions...enough to be heard from the other end of Gloucestershire, I should imagine.
Does anyone on this board have any personal recollections of this stop?
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No, but Schoenstein will build a pair this year.
Wondering if they blend ...
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I have big hands and use those where others like to use all four feet instead
So you don't need something like
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And recently this one in Tokyo.
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The Transept case currently contains the 13 (I think) lowest pipes of the Hope-Jones diaphone 32' stop. They do not speak, but were simply too large to remove when the rest of the rank was removed. It is our hope to retain one of these for its historical value, possibly to find some scheme of winding it up for demonstration purposes....though quite where all that wind will come from....???
Why not re-using them, as with the viole d'orchestre. If ever any stop was Hope-Joneses ...
Nice pictures btw - lucky man, with two new organs (whatever 'we' post here ....).
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OT: "kropf" has been appointed at Rostock, St.Marien.
Best Wishes!
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I consider Cochereau's reading the best of all yet mentioned; nice entry at the Gloria, feels like they're lifting NotreDame's roof ...
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Are we to be given any clues as to the identity of the church and the provenance of the organ?
Or not?
Graham
Worse-ter?
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I remember the church sounding rather dry (heard the Rheinische Kantorei there with Bach family pogramme).
Safety Of Organists
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So your church is open to the public with no warden (is that the correct word) around, and is the committee not concerned about possible damage or theft?
I don't think I would practise in my church when it's opened with no 'guards' around - mind you if something get's stolen, I'm not going to be liable/responsible (while / because of being there) ...