@AnOrganCornucopia people obviously do feel they get more out of a lady ga ga concert because lady gaga can fill a venue whist theatre organs can't! I don't understand it, but there we go!
People have been saying the theatre organ will die in 10 years for around 40 or so years to my knowledge, it still carries on.
@3dwurli - you might ask that of all organists, theatre or 'straight'. Great does not equal popular. I challenge anyone to say that you get more out of a Lady Gaga concert than an organ recital on a fine organ with works such as a Vierne organ symphony - but Lady Gaga fills stadia while worthwhile organ concerts struggle to attract hundreds. So it is with the theatre organ - now everyone wants to hear Blackpool style, but their preference is based entirely on nostalgia. They will soon die out.
@56Packman Yea, Moller had the fattest largest scale tibias ever made. If you ever seen them, they are so large scale, that they look almost square in shape. Dave Junction has a good picture of them in his book showing them jammed into the factory voiceing machine. They where so fat and big scaled, they factory had to make a new rack board to accomidate them for the voicing machine.
If you're going to emulate someone, why not Johnny Seng. He was one of, if not the best technically and artisticlly. Fortunatly, Simon doesn't need to imitate any other organist, he's fabulous in his own right.
@AnOrganCornucopia people obviously do feel they get more out of a lady ga ga concert because lady gaga can fill a venue whist theatre organs can't! I don't understand it, but there we go!
People have been saying the theatre organ will die in 10 years for around 40 or so years to my knowledge, it still carries on.
comptonplus 3 months ago
@3dwurli - you might ask that of all organists, theatre or 'straight'. Great does not equal popular. I challenge anyone to say that you get more out of a Lady Gaga concert than an organ recital on a fine organ with works such as a Vierne organ symphony - but Lady Gaga fills stadia while worthwhile organ concerts struggle to attract hundreds. So it is with the theatre organ - now everyone wants to hear Blackpool style, but their preference is based entirely on nostalgia. They will soon die out.
AnOrganCornucopia 3 months ago
@PlayerElectone If that is so, wheres the bookings? Wheres the audiences?
3dwurli 4 months ago
Nobody does it better. Simon is truly one of - if not THE - best theatre organist of this generation.
PlayerElectone 5 months ago
This is so fantastic. How does he move his fingers so fast? Hours of practice as a lad I guess.
Why does he keep 'pumping' the swell pedal(s)'?
MrTenonSaw 9 months ago
I saw /heard Simon Gledhill get a standing ovation at Harworth about 1994/5,when he played'The Thieving Magpie' an unforgetable experience.
barneyboscoe 9 months ago
@56Packman Yea, Moller had the fattest largest scale tibias ever made. If you ever seen them, they are so large scale, that they look almost square in shape. Dave Junction has a good picture of them in his book showing them jammed into the factory voiceing machine. They where so fat and big scaled, they factory had to make a new rack board to accomidate them for the voicing machine.
JoePeterzak 11 months ago
Sounds like John Seng in places
richardst1968 1 year ago
Could someone explain the Möller stop tab colour meanings? They're much more colourful than WurliTzer's and Kimball's...
tregnier279 1 year ago
If you're going to emulate someone, why not Johnny Seng. He was one of, if not the best technically and artisticlly. Fortunatly, Simon doesn't need to imitate any other organist, he's fabulous in his own right.
TheBaritoneCrooner 1 year ago