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

4/72 1933 Skinner

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• organ
• kellogg
• skinner

[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!!

[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.

[fluteceleste]

there's nothing like those skinner celestes!!

[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.

[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

[LJBSasha]

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

[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...

[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...

[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...).

[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!!

[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]

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?