The First Noel - Christmas Eve 2004 - St. John The Divine, NYC
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- Here is a recording from the 2004 10.30PM Midnight Mass Service at The Cathedral of St. John The Divine, NYC. Timothy J. Brumfield, Organist and Johnson Flucker, Director of Cathedral Music conducting the Cathedral Combined Choirs, with brass, timpani and strings.
The last verse is Tim Brumfield's own arrangement! (Thanks Tim!). I had to trim the end of the clip due to CZcams time constraints, but I will post the final verse and Tim's mini organ improvisation in another clip.
This recording features the 'temporary' 3-manual/pedal Allen digital organ installed just a few days before the 2001 Christmas Eve service, right after the devastating December 18th, 2001 fire in the North Transept. The sound of the Allen on this recording was the best it ever sounded in the Cathedral, after much experimentation with speaker placement and tuning from the console by Organ Curator Doug Hunt and Allen's technicians.
You will see a picture of the recording setup on the original 1910 Op. 150/150A Skinner console, still covered in dust from the devastating fire on Dec. 18th, 2001 - with a hand-written note by Organ Curator Doug Hunt telling people 'Do Not Touch' the console! Former Cathedral Organist Dorothy Papadakos's old Sony DAT recorder is below the HHB CD burner I used to capture these services for a few years after the 2001 fire. A single Sony stereo mic was suspended from the Choir ceiling, and connected to a no-name mic preamp/mixer.
This setup was in place for a few weeks before the 2001 fire, but Dorothy Papadakos did not get a chance to use the CD burner. You can hear some of Dorothy's fabulous improvisations on the Pro Organo label, where Fred Hohman used the Sony DAT recordings of Dorothy in his commercially released CD's. Some of Dorothy's recordings are still available from Pro Organo. Enjoy! - Hudba
Excellent job! My favorite Christmas Carol done right!
Tim was doing his best to suggest the State Trumpet in his improv.
So beautiful!
This Allen sounds absolutely THRILLING! Whoever voiced it knew what they were doing!
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i"m curious to know what kind of audio setup they used in St. John the Divine for this Allen. It sounds like it made a pretty good roar, but in order to be even close to effective in a building like that, was it triple? Quadruple audio? Just curious...:)
PS...Glad the Skinner has been back, and is in such splendid condition after its rebuild! It sounds fantastic!!
Someone should DUST, the ORGAN, and used good furniture polish. My goodness!
I could tell this was an Allen from the first note. Electronicky muddy fakeness
Yea Yeap lol I don’t think every one on here didn’t know there original organ was being restored it returned in 2008 . This what we hear is a loner organ 👍🏽
I grew up in a church with a 1970s Allen organ and even though it paled in comparison to our later pipe organ, the organist played it well enough to make me a future pipe organ fan.