@heepitfull The Hollywood High School organ is an E.M. Skinner damaged in the earthquake and reconstructed by Austin Organs of Hartford, CT, the last organ builder from the Skinner-Moller-Wurlitzer age of American organs.
Filmstudent: Thank you so much for posting this. What memories! I am a graduate of HHS and during my three years there saw Gaylord Carter play this organ accompanying a Harold Lloyd film. At the end none other than Mr. Lloyd himself came out on stage and we gave both these men a standing ovation. Also Virgil Fox came and played it for us one year, tellings us what a great instrument the HHS organ was. Thanks again.
The performance of this work was best done by E.Power Biggs. He set the standard both in his registration and tempo of this piece. I would love to hear Cameron Carpenter do this work on the Trinity organ.
i'm sure cameron carpenter could do his own variations hehehe. it'd be sweet to hear it on the middle collegiate organ since it doesn't require a reboot to get the theater organ sounds.
I've heard many renditions of this work over the past38 years and, although the performer knows his/her way around the instrument, I consider this version short on color and spirit. E. Power Biggs does a real bang up job.
privatecustomer...just a note. The organ is an early 20th century orchestral organ...and a small one at that. It has NO independent mutations I don't believe there's even a Nasard derived from a unison rank. And most of the registers are 8' pitch. Considering the nature of the instrument, I'd say Filmstudent89 got an amazing array of colors out of a limited number of tonal resources, and used tempo variations to great effect.
Fox had an LP with the Ives on a theatre organ, quite campy, unlike the Biggs.
Question: Who is the builder of this organ?
heepitfull 1 year ago
@heepitfull The Hollywood High School organ is an E.M. Skinner damaged in the earthquake and reconstructed by Austin Organs of Hartford, CT, the last organ builder from the Skinner-Moller-Wurlitzer age of American organs.
drbobdrake 1 year ago
A tuning of this Organ wouldn't hurt either.
dacatholicbandorgan 2 years ago
Where is the video of the Organ playing "Think of Me" from Phantom of the Opera?
dacatholicbandorgan 2 years ago
yeah...i want to see that again too
djbjr1130 2 years ago
love the bitonality at 3:26, so mindblowing
guitars2112 2 years ago
Filmstudent: Thank you so much for posting this. What memories! I am a graduate of HHS and during my three years there saw Gaylord Carter play this organ accompanying a Harold Lloyd film. At the end none other than Mr. Lloyd himself came out on stage and we gave both these men a standing ovation. Also Virgil Fox came and played it for us one year, tellings us what a great instrument the HHS organ was. Thanks again.
1950Bob 2 years ago
The performance of this work was best done by E.Power Biggs. He set the standard both in his registration and tempo of this piece. I would love to hear Cameron Carpenter do this work on the Trinity organ.
sunrisecount 3 years ago
i'm sure cameron carpenter could do his own variations hehehe. it'd be sweet to hear it on the middle collegiate organ since it doesn't require a reboot to get the theater organ sounds.
riverscuomo06 3 years ago
no it wasnt thats just ur opinion
Hamgammy 3 years ago
E. Power Biggs gets way more credit than he deserves. Virgil was the best of that time. Cameron is the best now.
riverscuomo06 2 years ago
Quite nice. Never heard this before; my favorite variation starts at 4:40. Thank you for posting.
juufa72 3 years ago
I see Virgil Fox tags but this has nothing to do with Virgil, right? BTW, it was Biggs who famously played the Ives Variations. Cheers! Michael
michaelsmusicservice 4 years ago
can you take a video of you playing the songs on the organs and the miditzers? the songs you play are amazing
sayspepe 4 years ago
I've heard many renditions of this work over the past38 years and, although the performer knows his/her way around the instrument, I consider this version short on color and spirit. E. Power Biggs does a real bang up job.
privatecustomer 4 years ago
privatecustomer...just a note. The organ is an early 20th century orchestral organ...and a small one at that. It has NO independent mutations I don't believe there's even a Nasard derived from a unison rank. And most of the registers are 8' pitch. Considering the nature of the instrument, I'd say Filmstudent89 got an amazing array of colors out of a limited number of tonal resources, and used tempo variations to great effect.
SeattleOrganMan 3 years ago 3
Cool as hell! Keep up the wonderful work Filmstudent89.
diaphone32 4 years ago
Excellent and especially the pedal work.
bennypapd 4 years ago 5