W. K. Kellogg Auditorium Skinner - Priere a Notre Dame

[ilyich0nra]

Very nice Skinner sound. Worked on this instrument some years ago releathering all the static reservoirs and making repairs to the Solo chest action. Interesting having to work around the school lunch program whilst carting parts to and from the truck.

[LJBSasha]

Inappropriate registrations and a pile of wrong notes just make a perfectionist like me wince. I can see however the potential for you to nail this piece well - get to work on it!!! When you do (if you have regular access to that organ), re-record it and post it in place of this attempt, please! All the best!!

[dieselheart001]

@LJBSasha How about this- put up a video here of your impromptu performance of this same piece here. Then we all can compare them, and see just how much of an "expert" you are. From your arrogant response there can be only one conclusion: You must think: #1 That you are the incarnation of any organist greater than you, or... #2 You are one absolute asshole.

I'm just really not sure... but I'm leaning hard toward #2.

[LJBSasha]

@dieselheart001: once I get to a decent instrument, I'll do just that! [Otherwise, I couldn't tell if the organist was just playing spontaneously, not having practised the piece upon that specific instrument beforehand.]

As to your puerile gutter-language, wait until it boomerangs back upon you and then we'll see who you really are...

[dieselheart001]

@LJBSasha Since you were paying attention... let's make the playing field nicely level. Instead of a "decent instrument", which is the most evasive ruse one can utter- let's see how you fare on the same one in the video. I'm sure that someone of your capabilities and resources could arrange this, "with bells on".

Puerile? How sweet... someone knows a thesaurus isn't a dinosaur, quite literally. And boomerangs are used as weapons for hunting small game. I am impressed... continue, praytell...

[LJBSasha]

@dieselheart001: you just made a couple of wrong assumptions.

One can have capabilities, but not necessarily resources! Also, you don't know where I live or under what conditions - if I have any connections to people who could get me to travel to wherever this instrument happens to be (for all you know, I could be 17,000 km. away - and certainly it's > 1,000 km. in all events, not to mention the hazards of travelling. [And yes, "a--hole" IS gutter language!]

[LJBSasha]

The bleak truth is that yours truly is neither well-off or established. However, he knows what he can hear, especially if he matches what organists do relative to what pianists, violinists, singers, etc. are automatically expected to do. Also, if you think of me as arrogant, you again have made a whole host of assumptions about me that are incorrect as much as not. I critiqued what I saw and heard but made no comment about the player as a person - where's the arrogance in that?

[LJBSasha]

Finally, know that I'm not out to be either evasive or arrogant - this, if yours truly understands what criticism as published in newspapers, magazines, books (e.g., "The Penguin Record Guide"), E-reviews, etc., is what's written about people in all parts of music on a standard basis, no?

[LJBSasha]

@dieselheart001: Strange ending sentence, with its mentioning Shakespeare's "Macbeth" (in whhich Macduff is an important character) AND Doyle's "Sherlock Holmes" short stories.

Either way, this is stuff that calls for private correspondence, not for public jibes and insults. After all, my review of this performance was not meant to be insulting, just telling the truth (and I wouldn't usually tape this kind of performance anyway - maybe that's my fault as being very self-critical...).

[LJBSasha]

Missed clause: I wouldn't tape this kind of performance - for public release - anyway.

[dieselheart001]

@LJBSasha your words "The bleak truth is that yours truly is neither well-off or established." intrigues me. What has that to do with anything? One can be a monarch yet be impoverished; and one can be a pauper, and hold the wealth of the known Universe happily in the confines of his heart?

Even Russia's Katherine the Great laughed when her cook spoiled a meal.

I find it quite humorous that you arrive at the conclusions you do. Your arrogance is but the counterpoint to its "melody". Play on!!

[LJBSasha]

@dieselheart001: Don't you understand that poverty can stop somebody from traveling so as to try out great instruments like what E.M. Skinner, Æolian-Skinner, Möller and so many others have built; that can kill a potential career or even being known for any reason??

Not everybody laughs when a meal is spoiled to boot - people have died at the hands of monsters like Stáljin for even less than that...

[dieselheart001]

@LJBSasha I assume nothing- what happens when one does is quite obvious.

It was actually a veiled compliment. As far as words, and their categorization?

As you wish. They are what they are. Gutter, erudite, proper, coarse. Efficient,

efficacious or effective, as long as they are spoken "as hard as cannonballs".

Bleak, yes I know, but it beats clicks, whistles and grunts; or singing, as cetaceans do. Ah, but I am waxing verbose, aren't I?

Do continue... this is entertaining... for the time.

[LJBSasha]

@dieselheart001: Given my being overloquacious as it is, I'll NOT judge you for being verbose. However, I'm VERY poor at recognising humour (thanks to my mental disorders - Asperger's Syndrome, ADHD, clinical-depression, personality disorders {anxiety, paranoia} and unspecified learning disabilities) and have suffered consequently a great deal, even at the hands of my family!!!

No pity or sympathy needed; however, if good can come out of evil, then it's not in vain to be this open...

[oddrocketboy2]

@LJBSasha At the time this video was recorded, I had been playing the organ for less than a year. I wanted to play something to demonstrate the gorgeous celestes this organ has and this was all I knew. Mission accomplished? I'd say so.

[LJBSasha]

@oddrocketboy2: OK, if demonstrating celestes is what you set out for & you had been playing for less than a year (I forget what your piano-technique was like prior to your starting organ studies). [Some Mendelssohn "sonata" slow-movements would do well too (and they're not that hard either if one has a decent piano-technique for starters).] Maybe I started out too severely in reviewing you, but I still wouldn't wish to show myself in this kind of light - that's MY problem. Then you did well

[theremin137]

Lovely, lovely, lovely. Skinner certainly did know what he was doing, didn't he.

[fluteceleste]

there's nothing like those skinner celestes!!

[diaphone32]

I see Steven Ball.

[bhigdaddymark]

Nice, and thanks for posting. The video became much better when those around you finally shut the hell up so that you could be heard (obvious non-organists & non-lovers of organ music). That Skinner sounded wonderful, thanks again.