Widor-Toccata last page – How to not turn into a pretzel + a look inside the organ console
· 31.03.2024 · 18:00:11 ··· Sonntag ⭐ 23 🎬 346
📺 Christoph Bull
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A note from Christoph (a day before Easter):
It's become a tradition at many churches to play Charles-Marie Widor's Toccata in F Major from his Organ Symphony No. 5 on Easter Sunday.
So, every year I enjoy working this hypnotic piece back up.
The last page provides an anatomic challenge that I like to address with playing aids available on the organ console.
I had been experimenting with the console's transposer and it was still turned up a half step, so on March 29 of 2024 Widor's Toccata in F was in F#.
I was prepping on a Friday afternoon, before the organ techs at First Congregational Church of Los Angeles, Scott Clowes and Roger Hardesty, had closed up the organ console after a day of servicing the instrument.
So, this video affords a rare look at the console's innards.
Filmed by Scott Clowes on an iPhone 7+.
(Yes, I know I'm supposed to get a new one, but I'm holding out as long as I can :)
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