#organist

[strange-doll-child]

Oh dear, it appears I've become a bit obsessed

#i love him very much #he is standing so politely #i love when disney makes it look like he has eyeliner/hj #disney haunted mansion #haunted mansion #comic #the haunted mansion #frights of fancy #haunted mansion frights of fancy #haunted mansion comics #the organist #organist #herr victor geist #victor gesit #heeee #random post

[aneverlastinghalloween]

👻🎵🎶🎹

#halloween #an everlasting halloween #happy halloween #halloween forever #halloween vibes #the haunted mansion #wdw #organist #grim grinning ghosts #haunted mansion

[ahedderick]

Weather?

Well the day just went from bright sun to, uh, horizontal snow? Did not see that coming.

I got a call Friday from a Lutheran church organist asking (very hoarsely) if I could play this morning's service for her. I was a church organist for more than one church when I was younger, but only fill in once a year or so now. I didn't realize until I got my adhd diagnosis at age 50 why being the organist was so darned hard for me . . you can't let your mind wander if you're required to start playing the hymns in a timely way. I couldn't believe I was the ONLY person in that church who had a mask on. I came home and washed up very, very thoroughly.

My 'best' organist story isn't technically mine; it happened to my mother. She was the organist at that same church for quite a while. They have a nice, old pipe organ. One day a wire inside shorted out. During the service. The organ caught fire (in a relatively minor way). Service stopped, everybody evacuated, the fire company had to come but I think all that really happened was somebody cut the electric to the organ and the smouldering stopped. An electrician was summoned the next week and fixed it right up. But my mother had to endure about ten year's worth of jokes about playing "hot licks" in church. Every time I play there, to this day, I finish up the postlude and think, "Well, the organ didn't catch fire this time - so it was a successful service!"

#sunday #church #musician #music #organist #i have had SO many different jobs #it's ridiculous

[opera-ghosts]

102 years ago today is the French Composer Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) died. Here we see an original letter from 1892 to his friend, the composer Paul Dukas

"Oh, my dear friend, I cannot be found. I have a thousand things to do and I am never with you. Even so, I still love you and I would be very happy to see you.

C. Saint-Saëns "

With his symphonies and the opera “Samson et Dalila” as well as many other works, he will remain unforgettable.

#Camille Saint-Saëns #Saint-Saëns #composer #classical composer #classical music #opera #music history #bel canto #aria #classical studies #maestro #chest voice #organist #conductor #pianist #classical pianist #piano #Romantic era #Concerto #Concert #Danse macabre #classical musician #classical musicians #classical history #classical voice #musician #musicians #music education #music theory #historian of music

[danskjavlarna]

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My modest collection of vintage musicians is humming along.

#pipe organ #organ #musician #vintage yearbook #vintage illustration #yearbook #organist

[postcard-from-the-past]

Austrian composer and organist Anton Bruckner on a vintage postcard

#postkaart #anton bruckner #carte postale #briefkaart #austrian #old #sepia #postkarte #vintage #postal #photography #organist #ephemera #bruckner #postcard #anton #tarjeta #photo #ansichtskarte #composer #historic

[maison-des-feuilles]

Instrument des anges

Via baroqueblockbuster

#mesbaladesnumeriques #baroque #anna lapwood #orgue #organist

[edsmusicblog]

ethel smith 22/11/1902 - 10/5/1996

ethel smith - tico-tico

1944

#Youtube #ethel smith #tico tico #organist #hammond organ

[vaticanblog]

❤️🙏🏻🫶🏼

#catholic #religion #religous #faith #christianity #Catholicism #catholiscism #organist #faithful #vatican #vatikan #Youtube

[asktheghosthost]

How's the organist been as of late? And what about 'boo', how have you been?

"Boo-lieve it or not, he recently started a new project. He attempted to teach the pipe-dwelling wraiths how to play the organ.

"Now, I know what you're thinking: 'How do you play the organ without any hands?' I'll tell you... hm hm... By bonking your tiny, skull-like head against the keys as fast and as hard as you can... Heh... hm hm... Ah... Well, after several concussions, it was decided they would take a break from the lessons while a more suitable hobby was figured out. Those little darlings did try their darndest, though.

"As for myself... Maybe it was the... ah... music lessons, but I've felt an increased desire for quiet and solitude as of late. Often I'll find myself on the roof at night, stargazing. A few days ago, while exploring the staircases, I found a door that lead to a beach. I didn't question it, I simply stepped through.

"I took a long, barefoot walk along the moonlit shore. The sound of the surf, the white crests of the breaking waves coming and going... It was hypnotic. At one point, I dove in and just... kept swimming.

"I don't know how deep into the ocean I went. Without functioning lungs screaming for oxygen, it wasn't a matter of 'how far?' but 'why not?'

"And down into the depths where the only light to guide me was the shining of my own soul, I brushed past creatures not even mentioned in any of the books in our library-- fish with pale eyes larger than my fist, and mouths wide enough to swallow me sideways. And yes, there were ghosts here, too--great behemoths that drifted by slowly without thought for the creatures around them whose great-great ancestors hadn't even evolved by the time they had gone extinct.

"Oh, I could have floated there for eternity, embraced in the dark, silent liquid space, forever observing this alien world around me. Maybe, I, too, would have become like these pale, bulging- eyed beasts, never to see daylight again...

"However, I knew that I had to come home.

"I cannot fathom how long it took me to make my way back to the surface. Exhausted, I finally broke through and beheld sky above me. I let the waves carry me back to shore, and laid there for a bit before having to chase after my shoes, which had been compromised by two hermit crabs looking for a new home.

"Of corpse, I'm back at the Mansion now, but I know that the beach isn't far away if I ever need a vacation again.

"So to answer your question, aside from a near- existential crisis, I've been faring fairly well, I should say."

#ask #anonymous #organist #the organist #Beau #asktheghosthost

[rhapsodynew]

On March 31, 1685, the German composer, organist, kapellmeister and music teacher was born

Johann Sebastian Bach

(March 31, 1685 — July 28, 1750)

He is the author of more than 1000 musical works in all significant genres of his time. Bach's creative legacy is interpreted as a generalization of the Baroque musical art.

#Johann Sebastian Bach #sebastian bach #classic #composer #organist #music time #my music #music #spotify #music love #musica #my spotify #history music #borocca #Spotify

[maestroforte]

A little re-work of a three years old drawing of the Lord.  © Sarah Belmas 

#maestroforte #maestro forte #Forte #forte beauty and the beast #Disney #disney villains #Disney fan art #beauty and the beast #beauty and the beast the enchanted christmas #the enchanted christmas #tim curry #court composer #18th Century #organist

[moment-japan]

Jimmy Smith

ジャズピアニスト、ハモンドオルガン奏者。

ジミースミスはキーボーディスト憧れのハモンドオルガンB-3を世に広めた第一人者でもあります。

ハモンドオルガンは1934年、大掛かりなパイプオルガンに変わる次世代のオルガンの開発を目指していた米国エンジニアのローレンス・ハモンドによって発明されたキーボードです。

Bー3オルガンは、パイプの変わりにシンクロナス・モーターで磁性金属円盤のトーンホイールを電気的に回転させることによって、パイプオルガンと同等またはそれ以上のサウンドを作り出すことに成功しました。

内蔵された多数の減速歯車によって、思い通りの周波数を発生させることができ、コントロールはキーボード上部につけられた複数のドローバーによって、あのハモンドオルガン独特の煌びやかで奥行きのあるオルガンサウンドが作り出されます。

#jimmy smith #jazz #organ #hammond #organist

[gasparodasalo]

Alexandre Pierre-François Boëly (1785-1858) - Three Melodies for Cello and Organ: No. 3 in G-Major (Andante sostenuto). Performed by Christophe Coin, cello, and Eric Lebrun, organ, on period instruments.

#alexandre pierre francois boely #romanticism #classical music #cello #organ #chamber music #period performance #period instruments #rarely performed composers #duet #duo #cellist #organist #keyboard #melody

[opera-ghosts]

OTD in Music History: Composer Antonin Dvorak (1841 - 1904) leads the London Philharmonic in the world premiere of his immortal Cello Concerto, with English cellist Leo Stern (1862 - 1904) playing the soloist’s part. It is immediately hailed as a masterpiece, and to this day, it is widely hailed as the finest cello concerto ever written. Upon hearing it for the first time, Dvorak's good friend Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897) allegedly remarked: “Why on Earth didn’t I know that one could write a cello concerto like this? If I had only known, I would have written one myself long ago…” The first Bohemian composer to truly achieve worldwide recognition, Dvorak is notable for the strong "nationalist" bent of his music. Bedrich Smetana (1824 - 1884) -- Dvorak’s senior by 17 years -- had already laid the foundations of the Czech nationalist movement in music, and is recognized as “The Father of Czech Music” within the Czech Republic, but after Smetana’s tragic early death from syphilis, it fell to Dvorak to develop and extend this legacy in an impressive series of works that have achieved lasting popularity comparable with any music to come out of Germany, France, Italy, or Russia. The secret to Dvorak's success lies first and foremost in his incredible gift for melody, and secondarily in the instantly recognizable and delightfully fresh Czech folk character displayed in much of his best music. Dvorak composed in all major musical genres, and his oeuvre contains works that can justifiably be hailed as true masterpieces in every single major form – a very unusual accomplishment, even among the rarified ranks of “the great composers.” PICTURED: A beautiful “Imperial”-sized cabinet photograph of Dvorak, which Dvorak signed and inscribed to Hungarian music critic Andor Merkler in Budapest in 1899. This photo was signed on the occasion of the first performance of Dvorak’s Cello Concerto to take place with Dvorak conducting *and* Hanus Wihan serving as the soloist. (Wihan was the cellist who had requested that Dvorak write the concerto, as well as the dedicatee of the work – but for logistical reasons, Stern had ended up giving the world premiere several years earlier.)

#Antonin Dvorak #Dvorak #Antonín Dvořák #Dvořák #classical music #music history #composer #classical composer #classical #classical studies #Seventh Symphony #Symphony #organist #Concerto #Concert #ouvertura b moll #Overture #Sonata #Organ #Piano #classical piano #classical pianist #pianist #maestro #Romeo and Juliet #Nocturne #Serenade #Slavonic Dances #Violin Concerto #Othello

[danskjavlarna]

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My modest collection of vintage musicians is humming along.

#organ #pipe organ #musician #vintage yearbook #vintage illustration #yearbook #organist