[rodgersorgan] performance indication

there's a performance indication written on the 1st page of "A Gothic 
Cathedral", and while I understand the rules of grammar, and the english 
language, something here doesn't make sense. Maybe I'm reading it wrong. Can 
someone please help me understand this.........

"The effectiveness of this piece depends on the gradual crescendo from pp to 
full organ. The secret of this is the judicious and all but imperceptible 
diminuendi in the course of the crescendo so that the general effect is one of 
continued piling up of tone until it becomes a veritable avalanche of sound."

Does this mean that during the crescendo, the dynamic (volume) should remain 
low, THEN open the boxes at the end? Otherwise, it's impossible to have a 
'diminuendi' and a 'crescendo' at the same time. Mind you, I tend to think of 
'crescendo' as an increase in volume, whereas it really means 'to add stops' 
(hence the crescendo pedal). 

carlo pietroniro

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