John Adams: China Gates on the Organ

I thought I'd try this on the organ. It's different, and I hope you like this twist. John Adams is one my favorite living composers.

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• john
• adams
• china
• gates
• organ
• mel
• rama
• melorama
• adaptation

[MuseDuCafe]

I've always believed that experiments belonged in the lab, and only the successes should be revealed, performed. There are pianists who lose all musical discernment when it comes to certain transcriptions, their fanaticism for 'pianisim; disrupts their usual musical discretion. Ditto for otgan fanatics. Just one guys 'ho,' though. Best regards.

[Melorama2000]

@MuseDuCafe

And YouTube is the perfect lab. Where else can you take a tiny camera and put whatever you want? But I see where you're coming from. There are some piano transcriptions that are technically advanced, but are very difficult to listen to. Busoni's transcription of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor comes to mind. I just cannot make that sound good. But I give him kudos for transcribing. As you say - to each his own!

[MuseDuCafe]

Ludicrous! An orchestration, sensitive to the harmonics of a piano, with the pedaling, might me interesting and legitimate. This is a travesty of the composer's piece ~

tasteless.

[Melorama2000]

@MuseDuCafe

I appreciate your honest critique. If you prefer to hear this on the piano, then you should check my other video: (see video response link above).

As for playing it on the organ, I'm an experimenter. I enjoy trying new things.

A travesty? At least two others disagree with you and have given me thumbs up. That's good enough for me! :)

[poddypoldi]

Thanks - I really like it. It is indeed a different twitch, but it is good :-)

[slaytesics]

yeah, if you had done the bass notes this would have been a lot better

[czechhoslovakia]

The base notes are essential! otherwise i enjoyed it