Word: organically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oklahoma City's northern edge, in 41 acres of what was once part of a golf course, workmen are busy this week installing an organ in the Church of Tomorrow. That is what Pastor Bill Alexander calls it. Some Oklahomans refer to it as Space Headquarters, and that is all right with Pastor Bill. For his First Christian Church is all but out of this world...
...near-capacity crowd poured into M.I.T.'s huge new Kresge Auditorium last night for an organ recital by E. Power Biggs. The three-manual Holtkamp organ has just recently been installed. It is designed along Classical rather than Romantic lines, with all the pipes unenclosed. The instrument speaks with great clarity, although some of the ranks of reed pipes are harsh and unevenly voiced. The Auditorium itself is truly an acoustical marvel...
Biggs' program constituted a virtual historical survey of organ styles, going from the late 16th-century Byrd through Sweelinck, Louis Couperin, Bach, Handel, Soler, Schumann and Franck to Jehan Alain, who was tragically killed in his youth during World...
...heresy around these parts to say so, but Biggs is far from the last word in organ playing. He approaches almost all pieces in the same way, and they come out with a universally choppy, detached phrasing. Muddy playing is a grievous sin; but Biggs goes to the other extreme with his constant staccato jabbing. It grates on the nerves, and after about 15 minutes I was yearning for some sustained chords and some smoothly flowing lines. He also often attacks the keyboard from such a height that he strikes neighboring notes...
Blasted Out. The chorused fanfare of a horn group (ranging from six to eleven members) is deafening, as the audience at Laarne discovered. The day's festivities began with a Hunter's Mass at the Laarne Chapel, at which pink-coated, blackbooted horn players substituted for the organ and choir at the service, and all but blasted the congregation from their seats. On the lawn afterwards, the groups lined up in traditional V-formations, took turns tooting their bulge-cheeked way through an intricate variety of fanfares. It was a glorious afternoon for the horn players...