Posted on 08/04/2014 8:22:57 AM PDT by marshmallow
Ping for later.
I love organs both at church and at St. Louis Cardinal baseball games.
Here’s the great Cardinal organist, Mr. Ernie Hays:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aygALzju9yw
for later read
I'm with you. Despite the "joyful noise" admonition, I don't think there's anything more out of place in a service than electric guitars and a full drum set.
I don’t mind organ music, and can enjoy it if the organist is young enough. I’m of the belief that as older organists lose hearing in the higher ranges, they just pull out the stops a bit further to compensate. And when played like that, it sounds like someone is torturing cats. They don’t seem to hear the screams, but it can drive me from the church.
It was the dedication concert for the pipe organ at Eppley Auditorium on the campus of Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa. I was just a kid taking piano lessons and my mom thought it might inspire me to learn to play the organ as well.
It inspired me all right, but I never learned to play the organ like THAT. I’d give anything to be left alone in that auditorium for an hour after someone “mistakenly” left the engine running on that beast ...
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