Accolade For The Organ In Rah...

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I watched part of the TV version of the First Night of the Proms on Friday and amongst a lot of inane chat from Clive Anderson there was a short piece about a new composition by someone called Goldie. The person talking to Goldie, the name of whom I forget, said that the only "thing" he had heard that was louder than Goldie's drum and bass* was the organ in the Royal Albert Hall. This comment was accompanied by a note or two from BWV 565.

 

I do hope that Mr Mander is delighted with this comparison .

 

 

 

*I believe that "drum and bass" is the sound usually heard coming from a Renault Clio dressed in a party frock driven by a nodding oaf dressed inter alia in a white baseball cap. Maybe I should buy a subwoofer for my car's hi-fi and drive around behind aforementioned Clio with a recording from the RAH organ blasting out

[Guest Patrick Coleman]

*I believe that "drum and bass" is the sound usually heard coming from a Renault Clio dressed in a party frock driven by a nodding oaf dressed inter alia in a white baseball cap. Maybe I should buy a subwoofer fro my car hi-fi and drive around behind aforementioned Clio with a recording from the RAH organ blasting out

 

I have been known to do just this - though the recordings are usually from other organs!

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Oh yes, I have done it too; notably whilst waiting for Mrs H in town on a very hot afternoon and playing the Pierre Cochereau recording of Vierne's mass. It caused one or two heads to be turned!

[AJJ]

By opening our front door and cranking up the volume on the 'resident of the front room' I once nearly put our (very hospitable and affable) postman in hospital following a near miss on his bike with a parked car.

 

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