Barber Adagio for Strings at the Mother Church, Boston
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
- The Mother Church shares the unfortunate tendency of many American churches/concert halls to smother the reverberation with carpet &, I seem to recall, cushioned pews. The result: a huge room with acoustics more suited for chamber music.
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So gentle and comforting, reminds me that it is never too late to discover your true identity as a child of the Creator. The organ through its many voices makes this truth so much clearer, having spoken to me since childhood.
I can't believe I live right down the street from this building and have still never been inside. Now I must go. Great performance.
LORD, those strings! So beautiful! If a sound could make you melt... THIS is that sound!
Yep, nothin' like 'em
No strings, just pipes.
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One of my most loved pieces performed on the organ. Truly a delight!
I first began to appreciate Barber's Adagio for Strings when I heard it as the theme for the movie Platoon. It has been a favorite ever since, and this organ adaptation is special.
And the choral adaptation (Agnus Dei) is nothing to sneeze at.
Beautiful building and organ ......Especially, the pipe arrangement for show. Will visit when I come to Boston.
I'm proud to call Tom Richner my friend. I miss him. His command and love for the organ at the mother church is unsurpassed.
This is a superb performance. Thomas Richner was a magnificent musician...pianist. organist.....he could do it all.
My professor.
Simply wonderful. Thanks Mother Church for sharing. CVD
Beautiful! It reminds me so much of Bach's "Come, Sweet Death."
These strings are beautiful! And thank you for the shots of the interior. I thought the exterior was stunning; never made it inside. It's drop dead gorgeous!
The crescendostarting at around the 4:30 mark always hits hard.
I viewed your video from the Washington National Cathedral. What a marvelous sound! You have described so well this current video's "completely different" acoustical environment, smothering the innate reverberation of the room with carpet and pew cushions. This would make a perfect (hopefully, mandatory) listening assignment for church building committees. Thanks so much!
One thing dry acoustics do........it leaves you nowhere to hide mistakes.....and every note can he heard. Good for people like me who are trying to learn to play the piece....Dry acoustics are unforgiving of errors......so you have to be good.
It is fantastic so what is the name of the this song??
Very fine performance, on a truly great organ! Too bad the room is fairly "dead" though, as others have noted.
The older I get, the more picky I get about listening to the dry acoustics of most American venues. I've discovered that I'm listening almost exclusively to recordings of Eurpoean instruments -- recordings made in rooms that know what to do with the sound coming out of these glorious music machines.
1:47 like the moon shining, and the stars coming out.
beginning at 3:01 like the sun when it rises, and golden light floods the room.
If carpeting and padded seats bother a performer at work, how is he/she going to feel once you add the people-wearing clothes, which further damps the sound? Your acoustics are found in the superstructure of the building-towards the roof, not what's under your feet or under your backside.
I think that there is no denying the negative effects to any acoustic of over use of carpeting or permanent cushions. A hard, reflective flooring reflects sound that aids the acoustic, and a carpeted floor simply soaks it up. Here in Scandinavia, fitted carpets are thought of as unhygenic, because they trap dirt, so carpeted sacred spaces are almost unknown.
frigging heck...I know this tune..but unsure of the name of it...I have a ambient tech version of it somewhere..!!! ~ I absolutely love this organ version...so very eerie & ghostly towards the ending...AWESOME...!!!.
You’re kidding right.. the name of the piece and composer are both in the title..
Thanks for the inside info. My bad. As long as it takes to edit these things, though, I'll have to let it stand.
The reason ( an absurd one, too... ) for padded pews? Holy silence and stealth farting capability. Thus it is lost to all time:"The trumpet shall sound!" No more the sound of the "pebble-fall" staccato roll of a long anticipated bout of flatulence... alas.
I think (& I may be wrong about this because it's been about 15 years since I visited the place) that it also has carpeting in the aisles. Another pet peeve of mine ;-)
Get over it.
Not that I'm aware of. There was only the one Virgil recording at Wanamaker's (as far as I know), & this isn't on it. And I don't think he recorded it @ Riverside -- but old Virgil recordings seem to pop up occasionally that I've never heard ;-) And I've been a Virgil fan for almost 50 years
You wouldn't happen to have mp3 recordings of either this or the Washington performance? I would love to have both of these recordings.
6:53 like gentle repose.
Love the pedal at 5:20
Even those designed to be "not so dry" are now drying up! [Forgive me; I don't mean to sound negative. It's just ... I can see the writing on the wall for so many churches here in the US.]
Five-second reverberation is a must for any quality organ. I prefer seven or eight.
5 is a good measure of reverb - neither too long nor too short. Fronch music in a big cathedral can take that kind of reverb. That is where it was all written. Most other music is happier with 4 to 5 seconds when the building is occupied. The cathedrals are not bothered by people because they are so high with so much columer the clothing absorbtion is nigligable.
Well, I lived in Washington for 20 years before I visited the White House ;-) No organ there, though.
0.75 speed
unfortunately, it's now the norm :(
1:45
Well, what a man can know.. Maybe The POTUS has some secret organ in one of the basements :D