Hey Charles, what a beautiful church/organ. You are so clever being faced with that organ for the first time and producing such great music. I loved the finale as I guess you did judging by your smiles. You seemed to gel so well with the resident organist. Great vlog, love watching you ❤
Thanks for the upload. I wonder if this amazing cathedral will ever be finished. You can see from the design that it began in the Romanesque style and continued in Gothic. That actually makes this building more like the ancient cathedrals of Europe which is many cases were begun in the 11th/12th century and completed hundreds of years later.
The Walker instrument is amazing - I confess that it sounds like a real pipe organ (helped by the extraordinary acoustics of this magnificent cathedral). You were very fortunate to play it, Charles . . . maybe you will be able to return when the Skinner is playable once more!
Cool to see you inspired by the cathedral. If you can, please do yourself a huge favor and visit the cathedral in Seville, Spain. It’ll be the same experience, but it’ll be on steroids.
Wow this was incredible! I've always wanted to play at that cathedral! I have access to a 3 manual walker down in virginia beach that has almost the exact same specs! So it was interesting to hear the similarities.
This was after the fire but before the Cathedral’s 148 rank Aeolian-Skinner Organ was reinstalled. Last I researched, the Skinner was still being cleaned and restored,a project that should be completed by next year. The organ will then be reinstalled and used for services once again.
There was a more recent smokey fire under the chancel several years ago that has resulted in another cleaning of all the pipes. The Walker speakers were installed in the pipe chambers.
I did a walk through of this church a few years ago. There was only a handful of people there so it was tranquil. As large as the building is it felt intimate.
Thank you for sharing this. Years ago, I was at St. John's for Easter Sunday service (the church was full, with hundreds standing). It's so sad about the fire and the condition of the organs, after the first restoration a few years before that. When do they expect that the current organ cleaning will be finished, with everything restored and back in place? It's amazing how the 3-manual organ sounds so big in the space. Thanks so much.
Quimby Pipe Organs had just done a very thorough and excellent restoration of the Aeolian-Skinner instrument when the 2019 fire occurred! What a bummer that it needs another restoration so soon! And that restoration was after a previous fire in 2001.
Mr Reardon, my apologies. I was under the impression that the main organ of the cathedral was what we were talking about, not a temporary instrument. Again, my apologies.
You played the acoustic of the largest gothic cathedral in the world. Did they say when 150A would be reinstalled? The Walker Technical does a good job in the mean time.
The Catedral de Seville (built between 1401 and 1519) is the largest Gothic church in the world. Saint John the Divine in NYC is Neo-Gothic and not Gothic, so it is a stylistic copy since it was only completed in 1911. But the organ is fantastic!
Мир Вам народы мира !!! Идите по пути Господа Иисус Христос ! Мир Вам и Вашим семьям - нет войнам🚫 Господи просим Тебя О Даре мира между народами, любите друг друга❤ Аминь 🙏
For a large cathedral but a small organ, our church is smaller but hosts a 5 manual organ with just over 14000 pipes and, our church will be celebrating its 102nd birthday in September
@@Charles-Reardon in fact, this a mix between an electronic organ and a traditional pipe one, if I'm right! I love organs, I am a friend of Pierre Grandmaison's, organist at the ND Basilica in Montreal, Canada, a huge Casavant organ, around 95 stops or so!
Was this video made after the fire but before the main Aeolian Skinner organ was repaired and restored? It's been a few years now since the fire and after the organ had been thoroughly cleaned, repaired and reinstalled to great acclaim. It's now 2024 - this video here must have been made over a decade and a half ago.
@ThatcherNelson and @drbobdrake: Thank you both for your replies. It seems that the Cathedral of St. John the Divine continues to be cursed by bad and even EGREGIOUSLY CARELESS STEWARDSHIP of its property. It's amazing to me that a structure made almost entirely of granite could catch fire as readily as St. John's has. You'd think after its gift shop went up in flames in December 2001, that those in charge of the care and upkeep of this landmark structure would have learned their lesson. That YET ANOTHER FIRE has taken out the organ A SECOND TIME only twenty-three years later is beyond belief! At this point the cathedral might as well mothball its Aeolian Skinner organ and make the temporary Walker organ a permanent fixture. It sounds good enough to where MOST attendees at the Cathedral wouldn't notice the difference! I'm sure the insurance company underwriting this latest fire-damage claim must by now be VERY annoyed by St. John the Divine's remarkably poor oversight of its property and will surely raise its rates accordingly, if not outright deny it any further coverage. Taken together, this pair of fires at St. John the Divine on this side of the Atlantic is nearly the equivalent of the devastating fire that all but destroyed Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris in April 2019 - the HUGE expense and effort that the Cathedral of St. John the Divine on Manhattan's Upper East Side had to put into cleaning not only the organ but also the ENTIRE interior stonework of the church after the gift shop inferno was on a scale proximate to what's now being done to restore Notre Dame.
I will be glad when the pipe organ is finally restored and played again. SJTD does not record well on their streams. Washington National Cathedral mics much better. Their new temporary Walker / Hauptwerk? instrument sounds great!
when I was on the faculty of Columbia University I the blessing of visiting this cathedral during holy weeks. I now watch morning worships & holy eucharist from the Washington D.C. cathedral. While attending a workshop for deaf & blind, I prayed there. The commentary from one person was totally out of place. Cathedrals & churches, mosques/temples are places of worship & deserve respect when inside!
Gothic began in the 12th century and continued to the 16th, and was revived in the 19th. SJD I think qualifies as legitimately Gothic. It isn't a mere replica of European forms in the way Washington National is.
The Walker digital was brought in because the pipe organ suffered extensive smoke and humidity damage from the 2019 fire. In David Briggs' recordings the Walker sounds pretty fine.
A wonderful video featuring this mammoth cathedral and it's temporary instrument which, by all accounts, you played brilliantly! Thanks, Charles!
We’ve been to this magnificent cathedral many times. We love to just sit and listen to the magnificent organ.
Hey Charles, what a beautiful church/organ.
You are so clever being faced with that organ for the first time and producing such great music. I loved the finale as I guess you did judging by your smiles. You seemed to gel so well with the resident organist. Great vlog, love watching you ❤
Thanks for the upload. I wonder if this amazing cathedral will ever be finished. You can see from the design that it began in the Romanesque style and continued in Gothic. That actually makes this building more like the ancient cathedrals of Europe which is many cases were begun in the 11th/12th century and completed hundreds of years later.
The toccata from Widor’s organ symphony no 5 never fails to thrill. Heard this not along ago on the magnificent organ at Westminster Abbey, London. 😊
The Walker instrument is amazing - I confess that it sounds like a real pipe organ (helped by the extraordinary acoustics of this magnificent cathedral). You were very fortunate to play it, Charles . . . maybe you will be able to return when the Skinner is playable once more!
The trip is in the planning!
Fantastic. Your tempo for the Widor was perfect.
Widor's tocatta in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. How absolutely glorious!
Cool to see you inspired by the cathedral. If you can, please do yourself a huge favor and visit the cathedral in Seville, Spain. It’ll be the same experience, but it’ll be on steroids.
I haven't been to that church in ages the organ and inside the church is absolutely wonderful and divine in Uptown Manhattan.
Wow this was incredible! I've always wanted to play at that cathedral! I have access to a 3 manual walker down in virginia beach that has almost the exact same specs! So it was interesting to hear the similarities.
This was after the fire but before the Cathedral’s 148 rank Aeolian-Skinner Organ was reinstalled. Last I researched, the Skinner was still being cleaned and restored,a project that should be completed by next year. The organ will then be reinstalled and used for services once again.
There was a more recent smokey fire under the chancel several years ago that has resulted in another cleaning of all the pipes. The Walker speakers were installed in the pipe chambers.
It will be back this year, except the state trumpet😞
I did a walk through of this church a few years ago. There was only a handful of people there so it was tranquil. As large as the building is it felt intimate.
Thank you for sharing this. Years ago, I was at St. John's for Easter Sunday service (the church was full, with hundreds standing). It's so sad about the fire and the condition of the organs, after the first restoration a few years before that. When do they expect that the current organ cleaning will be finished, with everything restored and back in place? It's amazing how the 3-manual organ sounds so big in the space. Thanks so much.
It will be back by the end of the year. State trumpet has no eta yet though sadly
Quimby Pipe Organs had just done a very thorough and excellent restoration of the Aeolian-Skinner instrument when the 2019 fire occurred! What a bummer that it needs another restoration so soon! And that restoration was after a previous fire in 2001.
СУПЕР. Очень люблю готические храмы.
Great acoustics. My parish church is getting a Walker.
I definitely have to come visit when the organ is complete I heard the State Trumpet is crazy loud
You heard right
Babe wake up Charles posted another banger
Lol
Mr Reardon, my apologies. I was under the impression that the main organ of the cathedral was what we were talking about, not a temporary instrument. Again, my apologies.
I definitely understand with regards to the Chattering person.😏😏
You played the acoustic of the largest gothic cathedral in the world. Did they say when 150A would be reinstalled? The Walker Technical does a good job in the mean time.
by the end of the year
I LOVE the Sponge Bob Square Pants socks you have on.🤣
The Catedral de Seville (built between 1401 and 1519) is the largest Gothic church in the world. Saint John the Divine in NYC is Neo-Gothic and not Gothic, so it is a stylistic copy since it was only completed in 1911. But the organ is fantastic!
What I was told was a lie😢
@@Charles-Reardon No, you didn't know. That's a difference.
I wish 😪 that they at least completed the two towers of the cathedral.
To be fair, SJD isn't just "neo", it is quite inventive and original, re-imagining Gothic for the twentieth century.
I have heard larger organs played. I believe Riverside Church has a much larger instrument; I could be mistaken, however.
Мир Вам народы мира !!!
Идите по пути Господа
Иисус Христос !
Мир Вам и Вашим семьям - нет войнам🚫
Господи просим Тебя
О Даре мира между народами, любите друг друга❤ Аминь 🙏
For a large cathedral but a small organ, our church is smaller but hosts a 5 manual organ with just over 14000 pipes and, our church will be celebrating its 102nd birthday in September
What church?
How many audio channels and speakers are on this instrument. There must be some huge subwoofers too. The sound is incredible! 😅
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@@Charles-Reardon in fact, this a mix between an electronic organ and a traditional pipe one, if I'm right! I love organs, I am a friend of Pierre Grandmaison's, organist at the ND Basilica in Montreal, Canada, a huge Casavant organ, around 95 stops or so!
Milan's cathedral is the biggest Gothic church in the world. This one is a neo-Gothic building.
I’m confused. The Aeolian-Skinner was repaired and cleaned some years ago.
A smaller smokey fire under the chancel more recently.
@@drbobdrakewow… is Quimby involved now also?
@@dkeithtagI believe so. All the small Æolian-Skinner organs in the chapels were similarly affected.
Was this video made after the fire but before the main Aeolian Skinner organ was repaired and restored? It's been a few years now since the fire and after the organ had been thoroughly cleaned, repaired and reinstalled to great acclaim. It's now 2024 - this video here must have been made over a decade and a half ago.
It had to be cleaned again because the church caught on fire again
A small smokey fire under the chancel a few years ago necessitated yet another cleaning.
@ThatcherNelson and @drbobdrake: Thank you both for your replies. It seems that the Cathedral of St. John the Divine continues to be cursed by bad and even EGREGIOUSLY CARELESS STEWARDSHIP of its property. It's amazing to me that a structure made almost entirely of granite could catch fire as readily as St. John's has. You'd think after its gift shop went up in flames in December 2001, that those in charge of the care and upkeep of this landmark structure would have learned their lesson. That YET ANOTHER FIRE has taken out the organ A SECOND TIME only twenty-three years later is beyond belief! At this point the cathedral might as well mothball its Aeolian Skinner organ and make the temporary Walker organ a permanent fixture. It sounds good enough to where MOST attendees at the Cathedral wouldn't notice the difference! I'm sure the insurance company underwriting this latest fire-damage claim must by now be VERY annoyed by St. John the Divine's remarkably poor oversight of its property and will surely raise its rates accordingly, if not outright deny it any further coverage. Taken together, this pair of fires at St. John the Divine on this side of the Atlantic is nearly the equivalent of the devastating fire that all but destroyed Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris in April 2019 - the HUGE expense and effort that the Cathedral of St. John the Divine on Manhattan's Upper East Side had to put into cleaning not only the organ but also the ENTIRE interior stonework of the church after the gift shop inferno was on a scale proximate to what's now being done to restore Notre Dame.
I will be glad when the pipe organ is finally restored and played again. SJTD does not record well on their streams. Washington National Cathedral mics much better. Their new temporary Walker / Hauptwerk? instrument sounds great!
IT SURE DOES!!!!!!!
The place is gigantic…. And to think… The cathedral construction has not been finished.
😎 BRAVO!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏! And to that talker SHH!! 🤐 You’re being rude.
what a flag outside there?
when I was on the faculty of Columbia University I the blessing of visiting this cathedral during holy weeks. I now watch morning worships & holy eucharist from the Washington D.C. cathedral. While attending a workshop for deaf & blind, I prayed there. The commentary from one person was totally out of place. Cathedrals & churches, mosques/temples are places of worship & deserve respect when inside!
For such a grand building, the organ cases are rather uninspiring.
I honestly agree
Reverb!!!
What happened to the State Trumpets?
Water damage
Is there an eta on when they’ll be reinstalled?
Not that I know of
Please, a gothic cathedral was built in XIVth century. What was NYC in XIVth century?
Gothic began in the 12th century and continued to the 16th, and was revived in the 19th. SJD I think qualifies as legitimately Gothic. It isn't a mere replica of European forms in the way Washington National is.
St John’s organ is very small; what gives it the “massive” sound is the space.
If you think 151 ranks is very small, I can't imagine what you think big is...
pagaría 1000 dólares por que me dejaran estar solo, media hora ahí
Never gothik....this is a mixture of neo Styles....
Built by the Tartarians.
“The biggest gothic cathedral in the world” 🤣🤣🤣. Built in 1910.
Yes, and? It is Gothic, it is a cathedral, it is the biggest such.
Neo-gothic exactly
The Walker is nice, but it isn't a pipe organ - and certainly not an AEolian-Skinner.
Walker has sampled Skinner stops and is as close as a virtually organ is going to get.
Episcopal? And what fire made it such the organ had to be removed and replaced with a fake. Temporary I hope. Those key boards sound awful.
The Walker digital was brought in because the pipe organ suffered extensive smoke and humidity damage from the 2019 fire. In David Briggs' recordings the Walker sounds pretty fine.
Punk...put your shoes on. Have respect in God's house.
What?
A lot of organisms play in sock feet. Also when you are on Hoky ground you should be bare foot.
He originally had on sneakers. I don't know about you, but I'd much rather play in stoking feet than try to pedal with sneakers on.
Not gothic at all, only looks like. Untrap from pseudo knowledge!
It's Gothic Revival.