Barbara Dennerlein: Rockefeller Chapel, Chicago 8/26/09

[9REDFACE]

I play the pipe I know the music of the sound like this one I love it when I play I like to play by the sound not too fast.

[9REDFACE]

Some peoples do not understand this song? just listen the music of pipe?

[LieblichGedeckt8]

Playing Jazz on a church organ ? There has to be some serious wrong for someone to play Jazz on a Pipe organ !!!

[TheBaritoneCrooner]

@ EccentricRichard : Even though no recording does any room or instrument justice, the 2 CD set from JAV Records of Professor Thomas Murray on the Woolsey Skinner is something else. The first disk is a stop by stop tour showcasing the best voices from the original Hutchings organ as well as the subsequent rebuilds by Steere and E.M.Skinner. Disk 2 is a special concert of Tom Murry for Yale faculty. Well worth every penny! Also try "The Transcribers Art" CD of Prof. Murray on Gothic. THE BEST!

[TheBaritoneCrooner]

@ EccentricRichard. The ballroom Kimbal is well on it's way to having it's well deserved re-premier. I didn't mean that the console was the only thing that got restored. Funds were made available to restore the whole organ as designed by Kimball and Senator Richards. It will be a wonderful thing since it hasn't been playable in years.

[joepiedepoepie1000]

just enjoy the music, becouse thats what it's all about

[85rodeno]

Bravo, Barbara ! Aussi à l'aise aux claviers d'un grand orgue , que ceux d'une console Hammond !...

[Billiethekid001]

Nice job, just not my type of playing! But U did great!

[TheBaritoneCrooner]

Speaking of Atlantic City. I think Barbara's artistry would be a better match for the Ballroom's 4/55 concert/theater Kimball. The console has just been restored and the organ features Kimball's unbelievable solo stops and a lush string compliment.

[EccentricRichard]

@TheBaritoneCrooner - what state is the Kimball in? No use having a restored console if the rest is bust!

Incidentally, I've listened recently to some recordings of the Woolsey Hall Skinner and I have to say I don't like it - it's got nice orchestral solo stops, but it's pretty bland overall. The chorus reeds lack the fire of Skinner's mentor Willis, the Pedal reeds really lack bite and the diapason choruses seem dull. It's just too refined to excite. I much prefer what I've heard of Girard.

[nicloman]

what a fantastic sense of power to sit down and play on a machine like this!!

Love it.

[oldbump]

Yup

[nestoriously]

I almost cied after about one and a half minute..

[MrIsaacG01]

Very good!

[expertman60]

best organist (and song) ever!!! :-)

[TheBaritoneCrooner]

Based on this performance, I think it's time Barbara attacked the Woolsey Hall Skinner at Yale University or even the Wanamaker Grand Court organ! ;-) What's the name of this piece?

[AnOrganCornucopia]

@TheBaritoneCrooner - add into those the Girard College organ in Philadelphia, and, when it's eventually fixed, the Atlantic City Convention Hall monster...

[homoignobilis]

Barbara is fantastic and so is her jazz group. I knew she might be grab an A-S like the one at Riverside Church. She really puts some hot sauce on those famous A-S Diapasons, Strings and whatever she's got in there. but I never heard her do any really uptempo songs on those monsters. Isn't her playing just the best?

[TheBaritoneCrooner]

The whole thing is fun but from about 02:15 on she really finds her groove with those superb Skinner Strings backing up several of the halmark solo voices and ensemble combinations. I wish I would've known about this concert. Judging from this track alone, I bet it was hot night! Enjoy great blues on a true symphonic organ.

[homoignobilis]

Here comes the New Wave of pipe organists like Cameron Carpenter, Qi Zhang and Rhoda Scott. Virgil Fox was pioneer of this as were the Wurlitzer artists. the best yet is a compilation by Fats Waller worked by two musician/engineers. These organists can play it all- the way you want. those ASs, Walkers, Cavaille-Colls weren't just for the old guys. Go, Barbara, Go.

[Krokodilzahn]

only Chuck Norris and Maria Scharweiss can play on the same level like Barbarella does....

[technocrash09]

@Krokodilzahn .....Up-Chuck Norris would be a lightweight compared to Barb Dennerlein!...............just sayin'

peace

[whoffhines]

Never thought I'd hear this, one of my fovrite pedal divisions do that. Magnificent. Had I known aobut her, and this date, I woulda swelled the audience by one!

[funkpie420]

unreal

[steelersfanhawaii]

nobody EVER made strings and other orchestral ranks voiced as well as EM Skinner

[AnOrganCornucopia]

@steelersfanhawaii - rubbish! Cavaillé-Coll, Walcker, Sauer, Puget, Stahlhuth, Merklin and the whole Belgian scene, Willis (whom Skinner idolised), Lewis, Thynne, Hope-Jones, the Wanamaker company and its one and only organ, Norman & Beard/Hill, Norman & Beard, Harrison & Harrison, J. W. Walker, Compton, Wurlitzer, Austin, Kilgen, Midmer-Losh, Möller, Kimball, Welte, Casavant... sure, a big Skinner is a masterpiece, but he was only one of scores of voicers who could achieve such great results.

[lrover03]

Maybe it's just the environment, but this organ sounds a lot cleaner and more responsive than the one at Trinity Wall St. in N.Y. that she played the year before. Really love the sound of this! Kudos to Barbara for another fantastic performance. :))

[TheMadMusicMan]

@lrover03 The Organ at TWS is virtual and was programmed by Cameron Carpenter. In my opinion, he is a great player but has a very odd desire of tones...

[lrover03]

@TheMadMusicMan Yep, I knew it was a virtual organ. I wonder if the sample set was derived from the original organ or if it's one of Milan Digital Audio's creations? You're right, they could have picked some better registers for that environment. :))

[steelersfanhawaii]

@lrover03 and Barbara used them masterfully, BRAVO!!!!!

[1a2a3a4and]

great, absolutely great

[Zylstra555]

That organ totally has a back-rest!

I'd love to have a backrest for some of the organs I play..

This is a great example of the many different types of music a "regular church organ" can cover. It doesn't have to be something out of a 1900 hymnal.

Beautiful.

[shorttim77]

SOooooooooo Nice! When are you ever coming back to Philly and the Kimmel Center - hasn't been the same since you were last here!

Bob

[carlissimo52]

Barbara, YOU ROCK... I have adored watching you put this giant through its paces... What rich ensembles and the bloom of the space just give it all a kiss of magic. I was recently in Edinburgh and heard that your performance there was knock-out. GREAT! Blessing be on your head for sharing such a fab gift with the world! Greetings from the heart of England... Best regards, Carlo Curley

[RAPIERJ2]

Nice music, that organ bring back memories.

I played Fugue in D minor on that organ.

The sound is brilliant.

I also had my High School Graduation Ceremonies there. Rockefeller Chapel the great organ beautiful.

John Rapier

[boogierolf]

Thanks for all the great music ! Barbara - You are fantastic ! Thank you do much

Boogierolf

[invisiblebridge]

I attended this concert and found Dennerlein quite rude to the audience--she made several comments to the effect that she was disappointed at the size of the audience.

[DesireeDeFete]

@invisiblebridge From what I know of Barbara, she is a sweetheart...one of the nicest and least pretentious Organists I know.

[OrganNLou]

Really? She is one of the kindest people you will ever meet

[Rigilkentarus974]

J'aime beaucoup, comme d'habitude grandes performances ! Et vive l'orgue d'église ! 5*

[praestant8]

Certainly not your every day organ performance. Fun.

[TonyBurrell2]

Girl an PLAY the blues! No matter what on, she swings like mad! Awesome! Always one of my favorite players. 'Nuff said!

[Organsk8er]

Wow...I love this...so cool! Who needs a B3 anyway?... :-P

[stormyweatherblues]

What a nice Birthday present for Barbara!

I congratulated her yersterday and we chatted for a while. She told me that a video of her concert at Rockefeller Chapel was being prepared. Many thanks!

[carol9820]

You idiot! Why wouldnt you show her playing the pedals too? That is part of playing the organ and nice to watch!

[a55b47]

Well, it's unfortunate we couldn't see the pedal work, but as someone who's discovered the difficult logistics of filming organ concerts, I'd be hard-pressed to call them an idiot. Your comment is a perfect example of an old Washington idiom: "No good deed goes unpunished."