Amazing Grace Washington National Cathedral Pipe Organ

[vdanker]

No.

[a55b47]

I know the arrangement -- and love it. I'm not aware of any recordings of it at the Cathedral, but I've seen several recordings of it on CD. My favorite is probably a performance on the wonderful Aeolian-Skinner at the Church of the Advent in Boston. I can't remember the name of the performer, & don't have access to my CD collection right now.

[jqfarmer]

You do have Bolcom's "What a Friend We Have in Jesus"? Would love to see it posted if you do!

[Alex111Hall]

I guess you can do anything and call it Amazing Grace. You can call it anything you want. But it doesn't sound like Amazing Grace to me.

[trompettechamade1]

@hgykyggbhy All great architects were inspired by those who came before them without copying their predecessors. It does have resemblences to York in its proportions, but it also resembles Westminster Abbey (it ends in a polygonal apse, not a flat wall like York), and the front has a certain resemblanve to Notre Dame (Paris, not the others), but it is still very much an original design, influenced by the past but not copying any one church.

[parpaillotcamisard]

Definitively Protestant hymnology , as compared to the Roman Catholic one ...

[alextilson]

@hgykyggbhy Typical americans trying to copy the majesty of york minster here in York, England,

[sz8142]

a little bit noisy before 2′02″

[flippysnotze]

blaaaahhhh! sorry.

[dricaaudi]

Questo si chiama Amazing Grace???

Isto se chama AmazingGrace???

Is this Amazing Grace???

[a55b47]

It's William Bolcom's version ;-) I have also posted Gerre Hancock's version from St. Thomas Church in NYC. 2 distinctly different styles of variations.

[silverstartrucker]

Hate to be cynical, it is a variation on Amazing Grace, of course...

[jpeanrkode]

I know this is way off topic, but the cathedral here looks a LOT like the one from the old playstation game, Siphon Filter... is it? Forgive me for associating mindless entertaiment with this amazing piece of music.

[2008805]

This Cathedral is in Washington, DC. The only Cathedral I know of in that game is in Uzhgorod, Ukraine.

[trompettechamade1]

@jpeanrkode Not unless the playstation game is over 100 years old! This cathedral was started in 1908 and completed in 1990. Maybe the playstation game used this cathedral as its model.

[jpeanrkode]

@trompettechamade1 That's what I meant. There is a Cathedral in the game that appears to be modeled after this one. At least the architecture is very similar.

[silverstartrucker]

Amazing Grace?

[robert99brown]

yeah,i know what you mean,i've sung and heard this hymn loads of times, still very nice music

[1950Bob]

A bit over the top for me. I love what Ives did with America the Beautful, for example ... but as an admitted layman who just loves pipe organs I kept waiting ... and waiting ...to hear Amazing Grace. I'm the kind of guy Ive's famously wanted to "knock over the ropes." Well, Mr. Bolcom, I knew Charles Ives. I was a fan of his since I was a kid, and you're no Charles Ives. (Just kidding.) Thanks ever so much for all these videos. I am in HEAVEN since I found them. And you are teaching me a lot!

[a55b47]

Check out the Gerre Hancock improv. on Amazing Grace that I uploaded a few months ago. It may be more to your liking. I have mixed feelings about Bolcom: some of his stuff is really inventive & listenable, & some goes completely over my head.

[1950Bob]

Now THAT's Amazing Grace!

[a55b47]

I was just giving it a re-listen myself, & I'm inclined to agree with you ;-) Dr. Hancock is, for my money, the greatest living American improviser -- and maybe the greatest ever.

[akarpowicz]

I *really* wish you'd post in segments instead of editing. Never the less, many thanks for all the wonderful music!!!

[pete7wiegard]

I whent there! That Organ is loud

[MoneyManTC]

I remember the first time I heard this on PipeDreams.