Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 08:58:22 -0500
Subject: [CB] KOK DVD
From: Timothy J Tikker
Hi Contrabassers,
Forgive the shameless self-promotion, but an organ recording of
mine is about to be released -- on DVD. The organ is a 4-manual,
68-rank Skinner with a wonderful 32' full-length Bombarde as well as
several 16' stops, so should be of interest here.
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Timothy Tikker announces that on December 7, 2004 the Criterion
Collection will release a 2-DVD set of Cecil B. DeMille's silent film
classic "The King of Kings." This special release features both
the original 155-minute 1927 version of the film -- not seen for many
years, and here fully restored -- as well as the more familiar
112-minute version. The latter disc includes Mr. Tikker's
specially-prepared improvised organ score, recorded on the magnificent
1925 E. M. Skinner organ at Jefferson Avenue Presbyterian Church in
Detroit, and recorded in CD-quality digital sound by Jim Stevens of
Praestant Recordings. Also included as an alternate soundtrack is
the original 1928 Photophone score for orchestra & chorus realized
by Hugo Riesenfeld; the 155-minute version has a new score by Donald
Sosin.
For more information see:
http://www.criterionco.com/asp/release.asp?id=266
The DVD set will be available from the Organ Historical Society
catalog:
...as well as all usual video outlets.
Mr. Tikker is organist at Ascension Lutheran Church in East
Lansing, and College Organist at Kalamazoo College. He won First
Prize in the San Anselmo Organ Improvisation Competition in 1987, and
Third Prize in the AGO Improvisation Competition in 1996. He won
the Holtakmp-AGO Award for Organ Composition in 1993. He has
recorded for the Arkay, OHS and Raven labels.
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Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 09:05:44 -0600
From: "Gregg Bailey"
Subject: [CB] organ recordings featuring low notes
Dear List,
On the subject of pipe organs, since they can play lower than
any other musical instrument if they have 32' stops, I wanted to point
out a couple of recordings of organs where low stops are
demonstrated. There is an absolutely wonderful 2 CD-set of
professor Thomas Murray giving an audio tour of one of the best organs
in the world--the Newberry Memorial Organ in Woolsey Hall at Yale where
he is professor. The first CD is the audio tour (which he
narrates between his artful stop demonstrations), and the 2nd CD is a
recital he gave there. In CD 1, the Pedal 32' Violone and 32'
Bombarde are demonstrated, as are several 16's. The audio tour is
a marvelous display of the many orchestral sounds that that organ
posesses. I think any musician or person interested in art music
would enjoy this.
Another recording which may have been mentioned on this list
sometime is a demonstration recital played on the world's largest organ
at Atlantic City Convention Hall. There is a track where the 64'
Diaphone is demonstrated. I don't know if the recording engineers
were able to use recording equipment that could truly capture the
fundamentals down to 8 Hz, because I have only played it on my little
stereo. However, you can at least hear the "beaters" vibrating
down to 8 Hz!
Just thought some might be interested to know about these...
-Gregg
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Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 09:19:44 -0600
From: "Gregg Bailey"
Subject: [CB] P.S. organ recordings
By the way, I forgot to mention that I have the ordering
information for the recordings I mentioned if anyone is interested.
-Gregg
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Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 08:53:12 -0800
From: "Chuck Guzis"
Subject: Re: [CB] organ recordings featuring low notes
On 11/13/2004, Gregg Bailey wrote:
>On the subject of pipe organs, since they can play lower
than any other
>musical instrument if they have 32' stops...
Gregg, that's technically not true.
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Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 09:15:44 -0800
From: "Chuck Guzis"
Subject: Re: [CB] organ recordings featuring low notes
On 11/13/2004, Gregg Bailey wrote:
>On the subject of pipe organs, since they can play lower
than any other
>musical instrument if they have 32' stops...
Sorry for the incomplete prior posting, but my finger hit "send"
too quickly.
Gregg, that's technically not true. Many tuba players can
flutter or double-tongue their instruments for some truly low-frequency
notes.
At any rate, this begs the question if an 8 Hz note is really
"musical" in the sense that it can be heard as a tone.
Cheers,
Chuck
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Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 11:06:12 -0800 (PST)
From: Andrew Phillips
Subject: Re: [CB] organ recordings featuring low notes
> There is an absolutely wonderful 2 CD-set of professor
Thomas
> Murray giving an audio tour of one of the best organs in
the world--the
> Newberry Memorial Organ in Woolsey Hall at Yale where he is
professor.
Did anyone else catch the article in Invention and Technology
about that organ? It was a terrific article and gives you a look
at the scale of that enormous instrument (197 ranks) It also
describes the pneumatic relays that can be used to program - yes,
program - sets of stops, which is usually done with electronics today,
but the original 1920's system was painstakingly preserved.
Anyway, see if you can find that article, it's fascinating.
--Andrew Phillips
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