Welcome to episode 10 of Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast!
Dr. Michael Bauer is Professor of Organ and Church Music at the University of Kansas. "Arts ministry is an attempt to help human beings incorporate beauty into their individual and corporate lives in an appropriate fashion. It fosters the creative and artistic dimension of the life of God's people who are empowered by the Holy Spirit to manifest the full meaning of their creation in the image of God - the Imago Dei." Relevant links: Dr. Michael Bauer's profile on the University of Kansas website Arts Ministry: Nurturing the Creative Life of God's People
Welcome to Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast #9!
Listen to the conversation Matthias Schneider is the Professor of Church Music and Organ at the Greifswald University and the president of the GdO (Gesellschaft der Orgelfreunde -Society of Organ Friends). "And then he wrote his own tries, but not to play these pieces one to one within the service but to learn how to manage, how to improvise, how to get the right counterpoint to cantus firmus. In my opinion, this is not music to be played, as we do today but music as a starting for its own improvisations." Video version of our conversation:
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Greifswald University Geselschaft der Orgelfreunde Enjoy and share your comments below. If you like these conversations with the experts from the organ world, please help spread the word about the SOP Podcast by sharing it with your organist friends.
In my opinion, one of the best organ improvisers alive, Sietze de Vries from the Netherlands shares his inspiring insights about improvisation on the organ.
Enjoy and share your comments below. If you like these conversations with the experts from the organ world, please help spread the word about the SOP Podcast by sharing it with your organist friends. Relevant links: Sietze's website Sietze's music albums Sietze de Vries profile on Facebook
"I was talking with the Danish organist Ole Olesen and asked him the question of why the organ sometimes has an evacuant? It's an absolutely useless stop - you simply open the valve, and when you finish playing, you just let the wind out of the bellows. I have never seen an organ where the wind stays without any additional pumping for more than a few minutes. It's not a hermetical system. And he then told me that in the Renaissance times the wind somehow was considered to be similar with the Holy Ghost because the wind is the spirit of organ. The wind makes the organ come alive. And it is a bad behavior to leave the wind without work. It's like you are wasting the Holy Ghost. It's something religious."
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If you like these conversations with the experts from the organ world, please help spread the word about the SOP Podcast by sharing it with your organist friends. SOP Podcast #6: Insights from Hans-Ola Ericsson, a Swedish Organist, Pedagogue, and Composer9/11/2015 Welcome to the Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast #6! Listen to the conversation Today's guest is Hans-Ola Ericsson, a world-renown Swedish organist, pedagogue, and composer, currently the head of organ and church music department at McGill University in Canada. He shares his expertise and insights on modern organ music, the music of Bach, earlier music, his compositions, and of course his interest in the nature of sound, because he is also the creator of Studio Acusticum project in Piteå, Sweden. Below is the video version of our conversation: Enjoy and share your comments below. If you like these conversations with the experts from the organ world, please help spread the word about the SOP Podcast by sharing it with your organist friends. Relevant links: Organ and Church Music Department at McGill University Hans-Ola Ericsson's recordings on Spotify Studio Acusticum project Hans-Ola Ericsson's profile on Facebook
Welcome to the Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast #5!
Listen to the conversation Today's guests are two experts of Bach organ music - Dr. Mary Murrell Faulkner and Dr. Quentin Faulkner. They have just returned from their 4th trip to Central Germany where they led Bach's Organ World tour. Today they share their insights and wisdom about the instruments that Bach played or visited, about performance of his music, and what it feels to sit on the same bench that our master composer sat on some 300 years ago. Enjoy this inspiring conversation and share your comments below. If you like these conversations with the experts from the organ world, please help spread the word about the SOP Podcast by sharing it with your organist friends. Relevant links: J.S. Bach's Keyboard Technique: A Historical Introduction J.S. Bach - Basic Organ Works The Registration of J.S. Bach's Organ Works Wiser Than Despair: The Evolution of Ideas in the Relationship of Music and the Christian Church Duetto: Early Music for Keyboard-Four Hands Concept Tours SOP Podcast #4 - Jan Karman About Writing Organ Fugues on the Melodies of the Genevan Psalter8/25/2015 Welcome to the Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast #4!
Listen to the conversation Today's guest is the Dutch composer Jan Karman and he shares with us his insights about his project in writing organ fugues based on the melodies of the Genevan Psalter. Also in this show Jan reveals his compositional process of writing fugues and gives inspiration and advice to students who would also like to compose fugues. Enjoy this inspiring conversation and share your comments below. If you like these conversations with the experts from the organ world, please help spread the word about the SOP Podcast by sharing it with your organist friends. You can also subscribe to this podcast on Stitcher and Tunein to listen to your favorite shows whenever and wherever you are, on any device. Relevant links: www.ganuenta.com - Jan Karman's website Fugues on Genevant Psalter Jan Karman's other compositions Welcome to the Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast #3!
Listen to the conversation Today's guest is Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra, organist, teacher, composer, and a world-renown expert on improvising in the Bach style. I had a privilege to study with her at Eastern Michigan University for my Master's degree but her enthusiasm for historically inspired improvisation caught my attention even earlier, back in 2000 when we met for the first time in Gothenburg, Sweden at the Goteborg International Organ Academy. Improvisation in the Bach style has been a life-long pursuit for her and in this episode she shares her insights about improvising chorale-based works of Bach on any keyboard instrument, which is the focus of Vol. 1 of her book "Bach and the Art of Improvisation". Enjoy this inspiring conversation and share your comments below. If you like these conversations with the experts from the organ world, please help spread the word about the SOP Podcast by sharing it with your organist friends. Relevant links: www.pamelaruiterfeenstra.com "Bach and the Art of Improvisation", Vol. 1 (book review) "Bach and the Art of Improvisation", Vol. 1 - the book Welcome to the Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast
#2! Listen to the conversation Today's guest is George Ritchie, an organist whose lifelong contribution to the organ world cannot be overestimated. He's mostly known for his famous CD recordings of all Bach organ compositions on historically informed organs in the US. More recently he collaborated with FugueStateFilms to create a stunning documentary DVD and CD recording of Bach's the Art of Fugue. Also his organ method book which he wrote with George Stauffer "Organ Technique: Modern and Early" really became a classic for organists who want to learn both styles of playing - legato and articulate. Beside numerous graded exercises and repertoire pieces, it has lots of scholarly information about the performance practice issues of various schools of organ composition and historical periods as well as on some other aspects of organist profession, such as organ practice, organ design, hymn playing, and even avantgarde organ playing techniques. George Ritchie is a totally inspiring man, completely generous, full of insights - this is a conversation you will want to listen to many times. Enjoy the interview and share your comments below. Relevant links: George Ritchie's website Method book Organ Technique: Modern and Early All Bach Organ Works CD Recordings The Art of Fugue DVD and CD project Welcome to the Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast #1!
Listen to the conversation Today's guest is a very dear friend of mine and mentor, an organ builder Gene Bedient who’s going to share with us his insights about the art of organ building. Gene Bedient started the Bedient Pipe Organ company over 40 years ago. He based the company on a combined love of all things technical and music. Over the course of this journey, Bedient made many pipe organs throughout the US that are a legacy of craftsmanship, artwork, technical engineering, and audible beauty. In 1969, Bedient started rebuilding and repairing organs in a garage in Lincoln, Nebraska. His vision grew over the next 40 years. Together with a small, dedicated crew, Bedient Pipe Organ Company built more than 80 organs, large and small, each unique, each an artistic and technical work of art. Because Gene has recently retired, The Bedient Pipe Organ company is now under the leadership of Paul Lytle and Mark Miller. Both men together with the group of passionate builders are dedicated to carrying on the legacy of the founding builder and continue to craft intricate works of art. Art that endures and inspires. Enjoy the conversation and share your comments below. Relevant links: Gene Bedient on Facebook Bedient Pipe Organ Company of Lincoln, NE Bendient Pipe Organ Company on Facebook The Wind at One's Fingertips Dom Bedos de Celles English translation of Dom Bedos treatise "L'art du facteur d'orgues" by Charles Ferduson |
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