I love it how you can see the swell shades move with the lighting in the background, adds a bit of theatre to it as there’s not a lot visibly moving while your playing your average pipe organ to the listener
Some of the noon concerts appear to be recorded by folks either with the organ restoration group or by the hall management. In those videos, generally there is a shot looking down directly on the organist/console. Also the audio is high quality. Those are fascinating as you can see the organist working together with a registrant who bounces from side to side changing stops
Now that's fireworks indeed, and not just those by Händel! ;-) I'm pretty surprised that such a huge space allows for a fast tempo like this (regarding the reverberation).
And the fact that they were recently added back in some time between June and August. I had a chance to play myself. Although the seventh manual is completely frozen in place, the organ is still one of a kind.
A nice performance. It would be helpful if you show the list of organ music being played. It would nice if you could keep somehow keep your camera straight. Greetings from Canada.
It's a tour mainly for tourists passing by who wander in after seeing a sign on the boardwalk. The "concert" is a very informal affair that happens every day with different organists playing whatever they feel like playing that day. Yes, people do occasionally come from far and wide to hear the organ but one of the purposes of the noon concert is to get the word out there that the organ even exists. The tour guide does a lot of talking (mainly between numbers as the organist has to change his registrations by hand), but other than that you should only hear the occasional cough or sniffle (my bad!) or baby crying. The noon concerts are NOT formal concerts in any way, shape, or form. The videos themselves are taken by individuals not associated with the Hall using their own cell phones.
I'm actually considering donating a Zoom H1 to somebody with frequent access to the organ. All they have to do is put it on a tripod (or the floor) in the center of the auditorium and hit record before a recital/concert. Boom. Audio so good it feels like you're actually there.
Great to see the restoration ongoing. It's really come a long way! I've noticed the lights are always on in the chambers whenever I see a video lately. Are those work lights, or do they normally light the chambers regardless?
They are work lights. Work continues inside the chambers during the concerts. And I think they should have show lights inside all 8 chambers. They make them look so dramatic and answer so many questions about where the pipes are.
40% is playing at the moment and projected to be 50% by the end of the year. That will be the left & right stage chambers. The next to come online after the work in the left stage chamber is finished is the left forward chamber. They have already taken everything out of there and started restoration.
It is a choral from Germany, Lobet den Herren, den mächtigen König der Ehren. The text is from Joachim Neander from the year 1680. The melody comes from "Hast du denn Jesu, dein Angesicht" and was formed to its actual style in 18th century.
@@juergen07091973 Greetings! The piece is Processional by Martin Shaw, I believe (published by Cramer in England many years ago) which begins, naturally, with a Processional and ends with the traditional tune often used to sing with the hymn, "Praise to the Lord, the Almighty the King of Creation." Some organists e. g. Richard Purvis, end this selection with their own special group of chords... Enjoy!
Wow,love the sound of that thing. I hope I can see it and hear it in person at least once some day
10:30 - Wow, indeed. This thing sounds like a Harrier jet taking off when all the stops are open.
I think you mean 10:30??? 🤔
I love it how you can see the swell shades move with the lighting in the background, adds a bit of theatre to it as there’s not a lot visibly moving while your playing your average pipe organ to the listener
Some of the noon concerts appear to be recorded by folks either with the organ restoration group or by the hall management. In those videos, generally there is a shot looking down directly on the organist/console. Also the audio is high quality. Those are fascinating as you can see the organist working together with a registrant who bounces from side to side changing stops
I love how the instrument completely fills the room with sound!
9 million cubic feet!
The 64’ Diaphone stop can shake the room like an earthquake
@@ag6371 I'm told it feels like there's an invisible helicopter hovering in the arena.
18:08 The Grand Ophicleide goes off
Jeez that is like 130db loud, enough to overpower a full symphony orchestra and maybe 2 full symphony orchestras 😲👏😱🔥⚡️
Now that's fireworks indeed, and not just those by Händel! ;-)
I'm pretty surprised that such a huge space allows for a fast tempo like this (regarding the reverberation).
Breathtaking!
Them are some fast swell shutters.
And the fact that they were recently added back in some time between June and August. I had a chance to play myself. Although the seventh manual is completely frozen in place, the organ is still one of a kind.
A nice performance. It would be helpful if you show the list of organ music being played. It would nice if you could keep somehow keep your camera straight. Greetings from Canada.
Cough, cough. Talk, talk.
I'd love to hear this without people noise.
I have to agree. I'd like to ask them "are you there to listen to good music or are you there for a gab fest?
It's a tour mainly for tourists passing by who wander in after seeing a sign on the boardwalk. The "concert" is a very informal affair that happens every day with different organists playing whatever they feel like playing that day. Yes, people do occasionally come from far and wide to hear the organ but one of the purposes of the noon concert is to get the word out there that the organ even exists. The tour guide does a lot of talking (mainly between numbers as the organist has to change his registrations by hand), but other than that you should only hear the occasional cough or sniffle (my bad!) or baby crying. The noon concerts are NOT formal concerts in any way, shape, or form. The videos themselves are taken by individuals not associated with the Hall using their own cell phones.
I'm actually considering donating a Zoom H1 to somebody with frequent access to the organ. All they have to do is put it on a tripod (or the floor) in the center of the auditorium and hit record before a recital/concert. Boom. Audio so good it feels like you're actually there.
We didn't get on a train and bus to hear people YAK YAK YAK cough cough YAK YAK YAK cough cough
Shut. Tee. Eff. Up.
Great to see the restoration ongoing. It's really come a long way!
I've noticed the lights are always on in the chambers whenever I see a video lately. Are those work lights, or do they normally light the chambers regardless?
They are work lights. Work continues inside the chambers during the concerts. And I think they should have show lights inside all 8 chambers. They make them look so dramatic and answer so many questions about where the pipes are.
What is the name of the tune before "Praise to the Lord, the Almighty?"
At 18.09 you can hear the Grand Ophicleide?
totally! got to be
The one piece sounds like Eleanor Rigby from the beatles
That's because it is.
About 1/3 capacity, right? Wow, indeed.
40% is playing at the moment and projected to be 50% by the end of the year. That will be the left & right stage chambers. The next to come online after the work in the left stage chamber is finished is the left forward chamber. They have already taken everything out of there and started restoration.
Is the piece from 19:54 (before the national anthem) improvised?
It's a Christian hymn (and he's playing it pretty much straight out of the hymnal) - "Praise to the Lord, the Almighty"
Jason Hoch thank you so much!!!
Jason Hoch what about the piece starting around 16:30?
It is a choral from Germany,
Lobet den Herren, den mächtigen König der Ehren.
The text is from Joachim Neander from the year 1680. The melody comes from "Hast du denn Jesu, dein Angesicht" and was formed to its actual style in 18th century.
@@juergen07091973 Greetings! The piece is Processional by Martin Shaw, I believe (published by Cramer in England many years ago) which begins, naturally, with a Processional and ends with the traditional tune often used to sing with the hymn, "Praise to the Lord, the Almighty the King of Creation." Some organists e. g. Richard Purvis, end this selection with their own special group of chords... Enjoy!