Mormon Tabernacle Pipe Organ- processional in e flat

This is a live recording from March 8, 2009 from the Mormon Tabernacle. Recorded on my Canon S5IS digital camera.

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Music

Tags:

• pipe organ
• mormon tabernacle
• chorus
• church
• temple

[azapachekid]

it's easy to sit back and be critical, what work of yours is posted? like your some musical expert? I don't think so...just a nasty critic...a tick waiting to be popped.

[Shenandoah58]

I DO love the way this instrument is voiced. It is smooth; not harsh, FULL but never overpowering.

[davewvu1]

Who is the organist playing here?

[cornwall59]

Wonderful ! i gather its a David Johnson piece ? can you tell me what its called please ? iam a fan of Johnsons organ music.

[09WestTexas]

If you can find it...listen to the G. Donald Harrison/Schreiner organ (I think the 1957 ventage) on the 33 recording of the "Great Organ at the Mormon Tabernacle" (Columbia) with Schreiner playing. See if you can hear the difference between the renovated instument, that you hear on this website, and the one30 years ago. You be the judge.

[AECEntertainment]

@4iwilllive behind the casing i think

[cnmmnc8852]

@Shenandoah58 Do you remember Dr. Johnson's talk on improvising on the other side of that record? I remember him even illustrating/playing examples of what used to go for 'contemporary'/'modern' music in the loopy 60's/70's - playing in 2 keys simultaneously or wacking the manuals at random with a hymnal and opening-closing the crescendo pedal, ah, what a wacky time in history. His improvisations were classic, concise and logical. He was a brilliant man and did more than "Earth and all Stars".

[Shenandoah58]

I checked my recording by David Johnson.....the tempo on this piece is spot on to David Johnson's recording on the studio organ at the Wicks factory in Hightland, Ill

in the 70s.

[Shenandoah58]

Perfect tempo, registration, execution, etc. I have a recording of David Johnston playing his own work. He would be pleased......very.....

[Spelvin1964]

The crowns of the pedal towers, and in fact the whole case, are modeled after the Herter Bros. case of the 1863 Walcker organ in Boston Music Hall (now in Methuen Mass.) Joseph Ridges, the original builder of the Tabernacle organ, was in Boston buying materials for the Salt Lake organ in 1863. He saw the Walcker organ in the process of being set up in the Music Hall, and he based his case design for the new Tabernacle organ on the Boston organ case.

[4iwilllive]

where is the organ blower