Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article

To: AnAmericanMother

My copy is from when I played the organ at church. Your link to where to buy it is helpful.

However, a real musician wouldn’t have problems in playing it, in the same way we play from a “fake book”. True, the problem is that many organists play the notes but have little musical talent, but that is another problem...

I suspect many of us hesitate to volunteer to play the organ because of the lousy music etc.


12 posted on 06/30/2013 7:11:42 PM PDT by LadyDoc (liberals only love politically correct poor people)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies ]


To: LadyDoc
LOL! I got stuck a couple weeks ago, not my home parish, playing the electric organ bec. the organist was on vacation. With ten minutes' notice. I should have refused, but some organist is better than NO organist when the choir needs support.

I prefer having the full score because I am a MUCH better sight-reader than I am an improv player. I think it depends entirely on whether you came up through the jazz/pop side where improv is a way of life, or whether (as I did) you came up through the classical side where improv is something that you get in advanced classes specifically for that purpose. I never got that far. :-D

13 posted on 07/01/2013 11:59:29 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies ]

To: LadyDoc

And this music could not have been lousier - except for one decent tune (albeit with different, tacky words) that somehow sneaked in. I would probably have done better without the score on that one bec. it was different from the accompaniment in the Episcopal hymnal, and my fingers kept going, “Wait. What?”


14 posted on 07/01/2013 12:01:48 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson