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Kurt List, had not found an organ that exactly met his sharp-eared requirements...
...must be a low-pressured, sweet-sounding baroque organ whose reedy stops and scintillant overtones would be similar to the sound of Bach's own playing...
...acoustics of the church must be sufficiently "sec" (dry) to let the organ sound clearly. Two years ago, a Swedish record fan sent Westminster a tape of an organ in Varfrukyrka (Our Lady's Church) in the small city of Skanninge, 180 miles south of Stockholm. The Westminster project was front-page news in Stockholm (13th CENTURY SWEDISH
Organist Weinrich recorded 76 separate Bach pieces, or about one-fourth of all the master's organ music. Last week the first two LPs of the series were released, containing the 46 chorale preludes of Bach's Orgelbüchlein (Little Organ Book). Organist Weinrich's performance is as pure and concise as Bach is supposed to sound; the distinctness of his contrapuntal lines sets off the daring harmonic progressions that so dismayed Bach's congregation, as well as the surging emotion. The recorded sound is sweet and-being hi-fi-a little bit clearer than...
...them all in a sack, and on a pitch black night took them out under an arch. First I would cough, and then immediately whale the daylights out of the cats. They whined and shrieked like an infernal pipe organ. I would pause for a while and repeat the operation-first a cough, and then a thrashing. I finally noticed that even without beating them, the beasts moaned and yelped like the very devil whenever I coughed. I then let them loose. Thereafter, whenever I had to eat off the floor, I would cast a look around. If an animal...