BACH Toca, Adagio & Fugue in C - II recital 11/11/07

Regarding the Registration: This fine organ in Palo Alto, CA offers a rich pallette of sounds.

Despite performance mistakes made here, it speaks of prayer, imperfection of what little in poverty one has to offer, yet in servitude offered, up to God. And that spirit is manifested in the most careful selection of Stops / Registrations heard here.

Gratis, for visiting!

PS:
I haven't played in over 10 yrs, and had to "cram study" the work on an alien organ, from 8pm to 2am the night before. California is like a "dry dessert" when it comes to organist positions that actually pay. This Performer was lucky enough to have brief access to this organ for only 2 days...which is insufficient to render a great performance.

However, despite the limitations, the point of this video (lesson), is that organs do not have to be played loud all the time. When an organ such as this has singular stops that stand out, use them. Do not "throw stops together in a big mush" like most organists do.

See the last movement, Fugue, for more comments.



Another lesson: Nehemiah 12-13 Scripture correlates tithing & mandatory pay for authentic liturgical music, with performance quality and attendance. In other words, like the manner of proper dress and appearance at the Master's wedding feast, Our Lord demands proper respect, and sacred presentation in church music, which is supposed to convey the mysterious the sublime, and contemplative spirit, and not come across as "party noise" run by amateurs who have no business being put in charge of something so important as the liturgy music worship. But since no one tithes anymore, the church music quality suffers in most places, and our Lord is most displeased with the out-of-tune drivel served up in most services today, bordering on sacriledge. You can see tangible proof of this in the mega-trends around the world--few people attend church any more, and a great many millions of them surveyed clearly state that they too are not happy with today's music, which lacks life and authentic Spirit. So, friends, when are you, who make up the church, going to finally listen, as Michael Jackson sang, "When you wanna-make-the-world, a bett-a place, take a look atch yourself, and make the...change"?

Because of this unspoken mal-treatment, many of my organist colleagues refuse to practice more, or have given up music, "each returning to his own fields", because the disrespectful "volunteer staff" who have taken over too many parishes, who play all sorts of games to protect their turf, and not pay real professionals for this work. Almost no one views it for the vital ministry that it is. Few have seen the intimate connection between authentic liturgy music and worldwide attendance (obviously a refrence to abortion and other ills as visible symptoms). So the cycle feeds upon itself...killing the music affects everyone, including those not yet born; so it's up to you folk to reverse it, by restoring your obligation to tithe for authentic liturgy musicians. Our Lord already gave you all the tools to do this gently, yet firmly. See Matthew 18, for instance, and "Built on Living Stone", which has the force of Canon Law, effectively mandating professional standards in every Liturgy. All it needs is a little "reminding", to those in charge of the tithes.

The Parable of the Talents says u get what u pay for, but if u Invest in good things, you'll get 1000-fold in return.

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[musicLessons2]

Fellow organist, are you afraid of truth? Then why side step the main issues: your rejecting of scripture (Neh, 10 cmdmts, Mt 18 etc. indicating inner dis-belief), and your approval of piracy & general un-accountability to anyone for sins (outward action revealing beliefs not compat. w God)?

[musicLessons2]

This is Mt 18:15-18 ("When your brother sins against you, speak to him first"), which you are violating: I've raised your specific sins to you in person, and you are not listening (by evading the specific points raised). One does not escape condemnation from God, by slithering away from one's responsibility to others who were injured. Christ was quite clear on that.

[musicLessons2]

For instance, the Kepa/kepa (Cephas) = Peter/rock used interchangeably in the original Aramaic bible, exposed your misquote of Scripture in order to "water down" the fact that Christ delegated involvement in reconciliation processes, to chosen humans, which you denied, in order to "get away" with things. It's an extreme liberal "doctrine of no accountability" which you preach, merely so you can give yourself free rein to injure others without limit.

[musicLessons2]

Good sir, what is a "real discussion" over "actual issues"? Whatever "you" decide? Why then, do you continually side-step and skirt the "actual" issues raised against you: that you distort both the letter and the spirit of scripture, in order to "get away" with injuring others? (stealing, false witness, envy, false gods / verse, etc.)? It seems your pattern is: evade, and "cover-up". side-track from the real issues at hand.

[musicLessons2]

"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone". Like them, you condemned 2 major religions, which do sin greatly, as if your denomination (?) were without sin or equal susceptibility to satan. Then you evade the issues to get off scott-free because you know you can't find fault in these scriptural citations, and you simply don't care about making peace with anyone you've injured. That's weak, brotha'.

[ccoraxfan]

"Like an atheist"

Okay, I see I'm getting nowhere and only wasting my time. You're arguing against someone else in your head, not against me. Sorry we couldn't have a real discussion over actual issues. I wish you the best.

[musicLessons2]

Like an atheist, you've mocked good people who merely quoted authentic Scripture. What you preached in return was a doctrine of "no accountability to others" (sin as much as u want cuz Christ died), when Scripture itself states you must make amends with others (Mt 18), if you are to be a true believer. By evading accountability, you've treated Scripture with cynicism, and insulted those "little ones" who defended it. If you truly believe, then you make amends, not mockery of good Christians.

[musicLessons2]

Mt 18:6 "Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin...better for him to have a millstone around his neck and drowned"--like Christ's judgment upon Judas "better he not been born". Point is, when you modify Scripture to a Mutant version (i.e. "not believing in Lord), then pick on good believers, you must make amends, because it's deathly serious for you and others you cause to sin.

[musicLessons2]

Perhaps most offending to God, and to people, is how you arrogantly told Christ how to run his Church: you denied that Christ got many other living humans involved in atonement / restitution (holding sinners bound on earth and heaven), by claiming you can get away with stealing, false witness, etc. merely from Christ's death on the cross. That directly denies that Christ instituted the entire Community with rights in Mt 18:18. It's not "you and Christ alone". "Others" rights, you attacked.

[musicLessons2]

The grievances raised against you were based on your own testimony: you said you don't "believe in" tithing (misquoting Paul about "giving freely"), and that decalogue doesn't apply today (in order to "water down" scripture to a liberal modernist outlook free to pirate anything merely because Christ died for our sins). God Himself would be deeply offended at such intransigence. Paul's "give freely" means don't tithe begrudgingly, but WILLINGLY. God hates false teachers, it denies Him.