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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: By "everybody else" you mean the rest of Western Europe, right? posted by vacuous on May 17, 2007 at 21:07:48:
Howdy.
In no particular order.
There are American organ composers, such as Sowerby and Searle Wright; I think Barber wrote some stuff too, but it is not my favorite school.
There were organs in pre-Revolutionary halls in Russia, but it was a matter of not a critical mass. Church music in Russia could only be unaccompanied male voices, no instruments, so only concert hall organs existed, and there were not enough to support composers. Whereas Poland was Catholic, and so Baroque esthetic and liturgical norms welcomed organs, I have a great recording of the organ at the cathedral in Gdansk.
Jehan Alain lived in a house with an organ there built by his father, IIRC. Organs in France like cars in Detroit in the early 1900s!
There has been an "organ culture" for quite some time in Japan and Korea, and it is catching on in China. Nothing as far as I know in India, but perhaps in Goan communities there is some organ culture. In the Philippines, yes, there is a long established organ culture.
Here's a factoid: in Baroque times, the organist in the cathedral in Mexico City was paid more than the one in Madrid. There are still surviving Baroque organs in Mexico and perhaps there are a few in Peru.
This week I am producing a segment for National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" about the oldest (1680) pipe organ in the Western Hemisphere still in regularly scheduled use for worship.
You must read Craig Whitney's "All the Stops," if you have not already.
CHeers,
JM
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