Fanfare for the Common Man at Washington Cathedral

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  • Опубликовано: 22 окт 2024

Комментарии • 167

  • @poissonnoir
    @poissonnoir 14 лет назад +8

    This is not a religious piece -- this is a class piece. This work celebrates the common man as Handel celebrated monarchy ("Water Music" - "Fireworks") - it just makes me smile -- This is us. We are great.

  • @danyarger
    @danyarger 3 года назад +10

    This is still the best version on RUclips. I play this song some mornings meditating during the sunrise. It lets me know I'm alive.

    • @a55b47
      @a55b47  3 года назад +2

      Have you heard this other version that I posted a few years ago -- recorded when I was taking my daughter to NYC to do her college visit at Columbia University -- across Amsterdam Ave. from the cathedral? It features maybe the most famous organ stop in the world: the breathtaking State Trumpet. (It's, unfortunately, out of commission, and has been for a couple of years) ruclips.net/video/pemt2XGJYAk/видео.html

    • @christianfeldmann8287
      @christianfeldmann8287 2 года назад

      I habe a Version heared that is 10000× bether in this
      ruclips.net/video/pemt2XGJYAk/видео.html
      This Version!

  • @jerrycallender9927
    @jerrycallender9927 2 года назад +2

    Religions one contribution to humanity;
    stunning architecture, epic music and monumental organs.

  • @MeatGuyJ
    @MeatGuyJ 4 года назад +9

    For the Essential workers who were called "unskilled laborers" prior to this pandemic.
    You deserve better.

    • @jamesslick4790
      @jamesslick4790 2 года назад

      You are the FIRST comment I have seen on ANY playing of this who "gets" WHO that piece was FOR.

  • @MeatGuyJ
    @MeatGuyJ 4 года назад +11

    During this pandemic, look out for the common man.
    We serve your food.
    We stock your groceries.
    We take care of the sick and dying.

    • @mccxcccx7793
      @mccxcccx7793 2 года назад

      And yet they are villlified for not taking the toxic vaxx!

  • @ARFRC1
    @ARFRC1 16 лет назад +6

    Thanks for the info.
    Diane Bish has taught me well and ultimately I received the highest award from the American Guild of Organists in 2001.
    I played was in London at Westminister Abbey to Honor the Queen's Anniversary.
    So, from an organist to another, I wish you many more years at the console.

  • @a55b47
    @a55b47  17 лет назад +11

    I said this in reply to another comment, & I'll say it here: I've been visiting the cathedral intermittently for almost 40 years (I live just across the river), & every time I walk up to the building, I'm awestruck. It's one of the great edficies of Western Civilization.

  • @cinegraphic
    @cinegraphic 14 лет назад +12

    How bizarre to see this...that's me smashing the gong. I was the bass/baritone soloist for many years. I thoroughly enjoyed working with Doug Major and Nicholas White.

  • @accousticdecay
    @accousticdecay 11 лет назад +17

    I tuned organs decades ago and this is correct for that time. With a digital tuner these days, you can just plug your ear, let the gadget listen, and set the tuning wire by the LED display. But in a huge cathedral it is hard to control temperature, an enemy of fine tuning.

  • @jimamia77
    @jimamia77 12 лет назад +19

    Funny how one reads tour guide manuals of great cathedrals which focus in how individual bishops "built" the edifices. No credit goes to the commoners that actually carved the stones, Installed the stones, and placed the organ pipes. Great piece to hear as it resonates throughout a monument to many commoner trade skills and man hours.

  • @poissonnoir
    @poissonnoir 9 лет назад +62

    I hope I can say this properly - without offending anyone. (The Herman version IS interesting.) I always loved this piece, but when I learned it was written/performed during WW2, it took on special, profound meaning: a resounding, brilliant, final response to the über-mensch mentality that would subjugate those deemed inferior. This celebrates the Common Man. So - for me - played in the National Cathedral on the most magnificent of instruments -- there is no higher celebration of our commonality.
    (BTW, I'm not American.)

    • @trespire
      @trespire 7 лет назад +9

      +poissonnoir I think you expressed your position in a most amicable & concise way.
      We, the common men, have good cause to reflect & celebrate on what was accomplished by Western democracies at great cost in life & limb in WWII.
      Never forget, never forgive, never again.
      Regards from Israel.

    • @SuperStevelp
      @SuperStevelp 7 лет назад +2

      wir rauchen den gleiche hirnzerballernden scheiß

    • @benjammin6692
      @benjammin6692 5 лет назад +1

      Well said.

    • @brookeggleston9314
      @brookeggleston9314 5 лет назад +1

      @@SuperStevelp LMFAO!!!!

    • @jamesslick4790
      @jamesslick4790 2 года назад

      You are NOT wrong! 👍😊👍

  • @thecorknicehero3073
    @thecorknicehero3073 Год назад +1

    The percussion instruments playing along with the organ on it’s trompette en chamade stop are are thunderous timpani and a resonant, echoing, loud-crashing gong. They made an incredible combo with the Washington Cathedral Organ and this is the best version ever and I will keep watching this forever an ever.👏👏👏

  • @charlesdavis7087
    @charlesdavis7087 Год назад +1

    Perfect! Perfect time, perfect place, perfect organ, perfect orchestration, perfect organist. Absolutely historic... and well recorded. Congratulations all around including the sound engineers.

  • @wyster14
    @wyster14 4 года назад +4

    I don't even know why, but just the first few seconds had me tearing up

  • @dorkandproudofit
    @dorkandproudofit 15 лет назад +21

    Additional trivia: It was written as a memorial piece for all the soldiers from the Allied nations in WWII who did not return to their home countries.

    • @trespire
      @trespire 7 лет назад +6

      In my humble opinion that is not at all trivia.
      It is central.

    • @pamconnelly8798
      @pamconnelly8798 11 месяцев назад +1

      Exactly!,

  • @MrPeter3011
    @MrPeter3011 Год назад +2

    fantastic organ-version of the Copland-Classic.....

  • @richblacklock
    @richblacklock 3 года назад +2

    I heard this live at a July 4 concert decades ago. The CD version of this particular performance is an audiophile recording and is stunning on a big audio system. It’s pretty darn close to what I remember from the live concert.

    • @a55b47
      @a55b47  3 года назад +1

      This is a recording I made of a radio broadcast by WETA

  • @christianfeldmann8287
    @christianfeldmann8287 4 года назад +3

    I love the reeds

  • @a55b47
    @a55b47  13 лет назад +3

    @09WestTexas I'm not aware of any CD of this, either. I recorded this from a radio broadcast of the Independence Day recital (back when public radio stations were still performing worthy services like this ;-)

  • @meanmon
    @meanmon 13 лет назад +1

    My brother-in-law is Tom Strout and a very good friend of mine is Dr. Ladd Thomas, both great organist which I would enjoy hearing and watching them play the organ at your Cathedral. One more side of Copland's "Fanfare"...It is the segue between the third and fourth movement of Copland's Third Symphony with a woodwind intro...Outstanding work along with your playing...Thank You, Sir.

  • @RayGettings
    @RayGettings 14 лет назад +3

    This brings tears to my eyes

  • @highphlyer
    @highphlyer 5 лет назад +4

    Now is the time for us, the common to rise up again and use our power for the common good!

    • @trespire
      @trespire 3 года назад +1

      One intentions is everything.

  • @gmc0422
    @gmc0422 15 лет назад +9

    I had the thrill of playing that organ myself several years ago when I was assigned to Andrews AFB for my annual (summer) tour with my Air National Guard unit. The organ does NOT have any percussion stops, per se, with the exception of some chimes. The tympani and cymbals you hear are real, being done by others, not by the organ. Does this help? G. Mark Caldwell, MMus, Major, (USAFR, Retired),

  • @henkdegroot5872
    @henkdegroot5872 10 месяцев назад

    I've played this masterpiece more than a thousand times and every time it gives me the shivers, especially the part after 1:40, with the sharp sound of the trumpets. Great tunes!

  • @linddaipauls3584
    @linddaipauls3584 3 года назад +1

    This organ, all 210 ranks, are sheer heaven.

  • @a55b47
    @a55b47  17 лет назад +1

    Yeah, you can't beat those old State Trumpets for sheer hair-raising effect. I still remember the first time I heard them in the mid-1960's. It was one of my organ epiphanies -- along with hearing Virgil Fox play Louis Vierne at Riverside.

  • @ChristianSchonbergerMusic
    @ChristianSchonbergerMusic 13 лет назад +1

    Magnificent pipe ranges on this organ! It faithfully represents the sound and fel of the brass instruments of the original arrangement but it clearly is a beauty of a pipe organ in all its glory.
    This composition never will be a cliche. I always feel a mix of being humbled and pride when listening to fantastic renditions like this one.

  • @accousticdecay
    @accousticdecay 17 лет назад

    Totally awsome. I attended church there one Sunday a few years ago and was very impressed with the organ. I never got to play it, although I tried to got to the organist before the tours started.

  • @kwakduckee
    @kwakduckee 15 лет назад +1

    Is it normal to have chills vibrate ate every note?....This was amazing

  • @felson99
    @felson99 14 лет назад +1

    Could this be more beautiful? I think not! Thanks so much for posting this beautiful piece.

  • @robbiemccarthy
    @robbiemccarthy 16 лет назад +1

    im pretty sure the rock trio emerson, lake and palmer did a rock version using a hammond (c3) organ. it has a couple variations much more in the rock style of 'yes' and ELP'. there is a great video on RUclips, as the first result when you search 'elp fanfare'.

  • @a55b47
    @a55b47  15 лет назад +3

    Bob, they're real tympani. You're right: it's pretty damn impressive;-) This piece seems to have become a standard of the Cathedral's 4th of July repertoire.

  • @Widor1
    @Widor1 5 лет назад +2

    Inspiring When I first heard It was so excited. It's majestic.

  • @trompettechamade1
    @trompettechamade1 13 лет назад +2

    @a55b47 THis is a reply to your original comments. I have been to several July 4th concerts by DOuglas Major. He always started with this piece, and he always played the entire piece on the Trompette en Chamade. The lower registers of the en chamade have a slightly more "snarly" sound, somewhat ike a Spanish Trompetta Real,and that might be what led you to think the chamade comes in at 1:40 or so, but the entire piece is played on the Trompette en Chamade.

  • @ARFRC1
    @ARFRC1 16 лет назад +1

    WOW!!
    This was well played and sounded awesome. This organ looked small, but the sound, the sound was outstanding.
    This organ would be compared to our masonic grand lodge in Helena, MT. However, the sound is not the same as this organ, but just as prestigious.
    PS - Keep up the good work.

  • @TheZynMan
    @TheZynMan 15 лет назад

    as always a fantastic piece of music; the architectural beauty of the place is a great compliment to the tune.

  • @jmeister321684
    @jmeister321684 17 лет назад +3

    My favourite interpretation of this piece is Dorothy Papadakos's at St-John-the-Divine on GOONY (1996 Great Organ of New York)

  • @tornspeedo
    @tornspeedo 15 лет назад +1

    I am pretty sure that console has percussion section with cymbals etc...as part of the organ. This is very common on high end pipe organs and theater organs.

  • @trompettechamade1
    @trompettechamade1 14 лет назад

    @1950Bob I was at many July 4th concerts where this was played by Douglas Major. All the trumpets(three are used: The Trompette en Chamade, the Tuba Mirabilis, and the Posthorn (to carry the sound doen the nave)) are on the Great Organ. They bring in a percussion section consisting of a set of 4 timpani, a bass drum, and a tam-tam.

  • @hjbpnb
    @hjbpnb 16 лет назад

    Yes, ARFRC1, it was performed at the right speed and yes it IS a very GOOD arrangement.
    Very well performed !
    THANKS FOR SHARING, A55B47 !

  • @gondolacrescent5
    @gondolacrescent5 14 лет назад +1

    @zukavatar
    I heard the same thing--not the sharp bit at the beginning but the flat note.
    The pipes involved are extremely sensitive and change pitch easily. I also suspect the organ tuners have trouble tuning it as it's so loud they likely can't tolerate standing next to the pipe for more than a few seconds while it's played. "Close enough" is often regarded as good enough with the tuning of pipes of this sort. The hope is that no one will notice the slight pitch deviation. Few can.

  • @ARFRC1
    @ARFRC1 16 лет назад

    Thanks,
    In the video you can't tell, but I am sure that this organ is amazing.
    I have not heard it, but Diane Bish, my mentor and close friend, has played all over the world and I recall her saying the world's largest is in Germany, 15 stories high.
    Couldn't proove it by me, I only have played in Helena, MT and on Tabernacle in SLC, UT.

  • @willemvantwillertorganist
    @willemvantwillertorganist 9 месяцев назад

    Beatiful. The percussion instruments playing great.

  • @dorkandproudofit
    @dorkandproudofit 15 лет назад +1

    Agreed. This is an absolutely fabulous instrument! I wonder how the Overture from Phantom of the Opera would sound on this thing.... Probably just as amazing!

  • @trompettechamade1
    @trompettechamade1 14 лет назад

    @1950Bob You are quite welcome, and thank YOU very much for the video. I love it!

  • @ericfisher1203
    @ericfisher1203 Год назад +1

    Incredible instrument

  • @poissonnoir
    @poissonnoir 14 лет назад

    @gondolacrescent5 - I suspect that we are arguing different points entirely - but I hope that we would agree that this is a magnificent rendition of a magnificent piece celebrating the genius of the common man.

  • @AllCanadiaReject
    @AllCanadiaReject 12 лет назад +1

    I searched for this song on bagpipes but it gave me this. I love it.

  • @gondolacrescent5
    @gondolacrescent5 14 лет назад +1

    @1950Bob
    The tympani is not from the organ. A church organ would be subject to ridicule if it were equipped with appliances normally found in Theatre organs. A tympani could be installed in a pipe organ and made to play by mechanical means at the discretion of the organist but it'd be extremely difficult to keep something like that working properly all the time. The organ tuners are hard pressed to keep 30-40 (?) ranks of reeds in tune.

  • @RedPop4
    @RedPop4 15 лет назад

    What a fantastic instrument. Reeds in tune? What's that all about. Simply wonderful.
    Populous what?

  • @accousticdecay
    @accousticdecay 11 лет назад +9

    It is really difficult to keep sensitive reeds in tune in a huge space like that. I have perfect pitch and it isn't that bad.

  • @Larsky1010
    @Larsky1010 15 лет назад +1

    All pipe organs should have Washington National's acoustics! Stunning!

  • @AirchimeLTDproductions174
    @AirchimeLTDproductions174 4 года назад +3

    Wow this is beautiful!! Are both the Trompette en Chamade, and Tuba Mirabilis sounding?

    • @a55b47
      @a55b47  4 года назад +3

      I think so, but can't verify. I taped this from a radio broadcast; was not in attendance.

  • @thecorknicehero3073
    @thecorknicehero3073 3 года назад +2

    0:21 fanfare on organ begins

  • @RocketmAAnU
    @RocketmAAnU 14 лет назад +3

    I'm having an ELP flashback from this.

  • @imanoob4
    @imanoob4 14 лет назад

    This is a place where I want to hear and see for myself before I die.

  • @philiprutter1
    @philiprutter1 7 лет назад +13

    Ok. i'm pretty sure Copland would have approved. The organ has good points to add- but there are aspects of the brass that I miss. You know what I want to hear? I want to here this in the National Cathedral- with the organ AND - the Marine Band; together. Seriously. :-)

    • @shiningarmor2838
      @shiningarmor2838 7 лет назад

      The organ's trumpets are an amazing sound, but they are not meant to imitate brass instruments. I feel that they are not a substitute for real brass, and should not be compared with them as such.

  • @a55b47
    @a55b47  16 лет назад +1

    Actually, the largest organ in EUROPE is in Germany-- Passau Cathedral, to be precise. I've uploaded 3 videos of it. The largest in the WORLD is in Atlantic City, NJ, with the Wanamaker organ in Philadelphia running a close 2nd. Very little of the Atlantic City organ is operative, & very few recordings have been made as a result. The Wanamaker instrument has been almost fully restored after a disastrous couple of decades.

  • @a55b47
    @a55b47  13 лет назад +1

    @bachluthology2 I'm not aware of one. I recorded this from a radio broadcast many years ago -- back when radio stations were still broadcasting classical music ;-)

  • @TimMackFamilyEnterprises
    @TimMackFamilyEnterprises 10 лет назад +2

    Working on a personal transcription of this very arrangement for an organ composition course toward a Master degree..

  • @birdebyrd
    @birdebyrd 13 лет назад +1

    that deserves a REPLAY

  • @Dragmack
    @Dragmack 14 лет назад

    truly, the king of instruments.

  • @comradejames451
    @comradejames451 3 года назад +2

    Beef: It's What's For Dinner

    • @MeatGuyJ
      @MeatGuyJ 3 года назад

      Wrong song, right composer.
      You want Hoedown.

    • @comradejames451
      @comradejames451 3 года назад

      @@MeatGuyJ oh yeah

  • @PEPEDEBARRO
    @PEPEDEBARRO 14 лет назад +1

    Absolutamente impresionante. Gracias!

  • @a55b47
    @a55b47  16 лет назад +1

    Don't know for sure about the Tuba Mirabilis -- I suspect that's what we're hearing, from the triforium above the main organ case on the north side (I think). Unfortunately, I recorded this from an old radio broadcast, & it didn't provide a whole lot of information. I've got my fingers crossed about how they've treated all those great old Skinner reeds (including another Tuba Mirabilis, as I recall) in the St. John the Divine restoration in NYC.

  • @bobjohn3916
    @bobjohn3916 9 лет назад

    Fantastico ! Wish I could view the video with the live musicians.

  • @k22984
    @k22984 14 лет назад +1

    I kind of think that Mr. Copland wrote this for me, and anyone else who has ever served.

  • @ARFRC1
    @ARFRC1 16 лет назад +1

    Too Fast?
    No way, this was an awesome performance and actually is at the same speed as it was originally written, at least that is my understanding.
    This was not too fast, it was right on.

  • @gramps2matt
    @gramps2matt 14 лет назад +1

    I'm going to try and find sheet music for this as well. I tried several years ago from a top notch sheet music store near me and the best the owner could come up with was a piano reduction. Then 2 years ago I tried an on line source and it only had the piano reduction as well. It seems a waste to have composed this arrangement for organ and NOT have had it published.

  • @1TUBAMAGNA
    @1TUBAMAGNA 11 лет назад +1

    i believe it would be the trumpet at 16ft pitch as well to get that full sound, great sound i have to say!

  • @BH061595
    @BH061595 15 лет назад

    I just love those trumpets!!!!!

  • @oofahman
    @oofahman 10 лет назад

    Gives me chills!

  • @topper2142
    @topper2142 15 лет назад +1

    Outstanding!

  • @ANTIESTABLISHMENTAL
    @ANTIESTABLISHMENTAL 11 лет назад +1

    Pipe organs are some of the most impressive creations of men

  • @trompettechamade1
    @trompettechamade1 12 лет назад

    The only recording on CD of Copeland's Fanfare for the Common Man at the Cathedral is on Scott Detra's Majestus. However, The mikes werre located at the crossing, as were the percussion instruments (timpani, bass drum ans tam-tam). This maked the trumpets sound distant, and the percussion over-prominent, even dominant. In this arrangement, two sets of mikes shoult have been used, one in the choir and one in the crossing, and balanced with a mixer.

  • @Benajsa
    @Benajsa 11 лет назад +2

    thank you very much excellent !!!

  • @accousticdecay
    @accousticdecay 11 лет назад +1

    I have his recording done here. Wish this piece was on it.

  • @totallyremiss
    @totallyremiss 14 лет назад +1

    Fantastico!!!!

  • @BH061595
    @BH061595 15 лет назад

    Beautiful!!!

  • @BH061595
    @BH061595 14 лет назад

    This is just great!!!

  • @JOEH11
    @JOEH11 16 лет назад +1

    that church on the interior looks like westminstr abbey

  • @Einaudi
    @Einaudi 14 лет назад

    Excellent! Fantastic! Marvellous!

  • @chrismusix5669
    @chrismusix5669 10 месяцев назад

    Organist handles the reverb like a pro.

  • @eoghdes18
    @eoghdes18 15 лет назад

    Several organs around the world do have percussion and other 'joke stops' (aside from the almost standard Zimbel, a sort of wind chime on a wheel that spins around), but not this one.

  • @robbiemccarthy
    @robbiemccarthy 16 лет назад

    i actuall ylike this tempo, it suits the reverb of the hall/ instrument combination.

  • @CECS1
    @CECS1 15 лет назад +1

    copeland wrote those percussion for a reason.

  • @a55b47
    @a55b47  15 лет назад +1

    I think this might have been an arrangement by Doug Major, who was cathedral organist when this recording was made (mid/late-1980's, I think). Google his name; I think he's somewhere in New England now.

  • @linee2009
    @linee2009 15 лет назад

    THANK YOU AS I HAVE BEEN STATING THIS
    TO OTHERS...
    i STATED THAT HE WROTE THIS WHEN AMERICA ENTERED THE WAR

  • @somesillysap
    @somesillysap 14 лет назад +1

    WOW ! !

  • @charlesdavis5802
    @charlesdavis5802 10 лет назад +1

    For me, it's doing things like this, namely, bringing in the great trumpets en chamade that breaths new life into a work like this. Too close an adherence to the written score can strangle the imagination and the vitality of any great masterpiece. A number of years ago, I heard Beethoven's 5th Symphony set to a disco rhythm and yes, I danced… and so did we all. It was glorious. Tom Johnson, a well known D J from here in Los Angeles, set the Carmina Burana (full orchestra and voices) into a dance form, and boy did the gods ever come out that night and dance. Seeing something old… in a new way… can open the doors perceptions, wonder and awe. "How to turn straw into gold," is the lesson Rumpletilskinz comes to teach us. Every child know that. Sent with love. CVD

    • @corvus1374
      @corvus1374 9 лет назад

      Charles Davis Have you heard Emerson Lake and Palmer's "Pictures at an Exhibition"?

    • @TARKUS359
      @TARKUS359 9 лет назад +1

      corvus13 ELP did Mussorsky's Pictures very well. Also Copland's Fanfare For The Common Man as well as Hoedown, taken from Rodeo. Maple Leaf Rag by Scott Joplin and Ginestera's Tocatta to name a few more. Probably the best classical rock group ever. Please forgive my spelling.

    • @charlesdavis5802
      @charlesdavis5802 9 лет назад

      Thanks ever so much. CVD

    • @trespire
      @trespire 8 лет назад

      Like your insight :-)

  • @accousticdecay
    @accousticdecay 11 лет назад +1

    Splendid!

  • @marcuslacroix7426
    @marcuslacroix7426 12 лет назад

    This made it onto Scott Dettra's CD called Majestus. Though I wish the mics were more in the great choir instead of the crossing.

  • @kyleyounger8287
    @kyleyounger8287 Месяц назад

    Magnificent ❤

  • @Missashlife
    @Missashlife 15 лет назад +1

    Does anyone know who arranged this piece of music? Thanks! :)

  • @Glamrma
    @Glamrma 13 лет назад +1

    Awesome!

  • @wheidelberg
    @wheidelberg 16 лет назад +1

    Why was the decision made to keep only 40 of the 189? Sounds as if it will not be the same instrument, or is this a return to a previous state?

  • @benjaminzedrine
    @benjaminzedrine 14 лет назад +1

    If you lived in Melbourne you could get it on Collins street, top end.

  • @caysonstaples
    @caysonstaples 15 лет назад +1

    Where can i get the sheet music? I have looked but all I can find is the music for a full orchestra...is this an improv?

  • @werwolfabwehr8034
    @werwolfabwehr8034 6 лет назад +2

    Sublime!!

  • @rbmoser
    @rbmoser 11 лет назад +6

    Happy Veterans Day!