Are There Living Mortals of Organ Music Virtuosity?
I have a suggestion for Halloween music...a grand proposition!!!!
Music virtuosos, organists, songwriters, composers, enterprising sheet music arrangers and/or music professors please observe!!
How about a rendition of John Carpenter's "Halloween" (1978) movie score in a solo pipe organ version?? Can you imagine the bass line and harmonies and melodies and rhythms of this eerie classic opening theme manifested complete in 5/4 time arrising from air columns generated inside thousands of magnificent hollow tubes which stand anywhere from a half an inch to over 50 feet in height? Arrangement for solo organ should be a faithful reproduction of the original. There would be absolutely no vocal or instrumental accompaniment to the world's most grand and harmonious instrument of music. Call it the "Gimme Five Graveyard Tocatta" or the "Cryptkicker Five Tocatta". "Five" of course, alludes to the sordid time signature and a "tocatta" is a piece written to display organ virtuosity, though Mr. Carpenter's composition is rather relatively unsophisticated, but something awesome for the ear to behold!! The use of the term "tocatta" might be questionable here because Mr. Carpenter did not originally intend "organ virtuosity demonstration" let alone organ performance period, for this music. Organ music may have been inspirational, though. This is my ultimate musical "Pipe Dream" as I can only imagine it playing in my head. I have yet to this day to hear a genuine pipe organ render the opener of John Carpenter's 1978 halloween Hollywood classic though somebody tried their musical hand at it on a solo piano...no thanks!!!........how about printing this pipe dream rendition onto music CD to boot???? The pipe organ after all is the only true instrument of witchcraft-and-ghoulery, and yet, divinity. The Organ God, J.S. Bach would frown upon electronic keyboards. The very "soul of music" is eternally preserved within the hallowed interior walls of organ pipes. No electronic gizmo can compare. The lofty pipe organ, in effect, is the Temple of Music's Soul. A pipe organ , after all, does deserve a break from 4/4-time conventionality, however.
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Jon the Uncanny Organ Aficionado
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