[rodgersorgan] Re: Organ at Walt Disney Concert Hall???
- From: William E Ehrke <diapason@xxxxxxx>
- To: rodgersorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 22:36:07 -0500
Boy, that Disney mockup....... Sure to generate a ton of conflicting
reactions. You know, the teenagers in my life have pronounced me hopelessly
resistant to change so I ought to be an old stick in the mud about this. But
there's something "fun" about this entire concept. Not that you'd want an
instrument that looked like that in your church, but maybe we organists are too
protective, just a tad paranoid. If it's possible for an architect and an
organ builder to kid around with an organ, the King of Instruments isn't on its
deathbed after all. No less an arbiter of pop culture than Mickey Mouse says
it's still alive and well.
Remember reruns of those early Disney cartoons, the Silly Symphonies? Trees,
buildings and automobiles took on life and swayed in time to the music. And
wasn't it the Seven Dwarves who had an organ equipped with little hands that
opened and closed across the mouths? The Disney hall is a logical extension of
those organic cartoon creations. A crowning touch would be for the pipes to
gyre and gimble as the organ is played.
B.E.
Soon to be published for the Rodgers Organ: Sommer Sonaten für Orgel - Summer
Sonatas for Organ and MIDI Orchestra!
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