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...outstanding characteristics of the Bach-type organ are brilliance of tone, clear definition of the various musical parts, absence of the variously colored orchestral effects prized by "romantic" organists...
...other instrument has such a range; the highest and lowest notes of the biggest organs nudge the limits of human audibility. No other has such a variety of sounds; the $100,000 contraptions of the cinema palaces can imitate anything from a peanut whistle to the crack of doom. No other instrument has such elaborate controls; organ playing, involving several manuals (keyboards), sundry pedals and sometimes hundreds of stops, makes 20-mule-team driving an utter cinch in comparison. An organist's opportunities for musical sins of commission are almost limitless...
Generally speaking, there are three types of organists. There are those who have no objection to the thunderously schmalzy organs, full of trick sound effects, of the cinema palaces. Second are the vast majority of church organists who cannot bear the cinemorgans but will make discreet use of the variously colored "romantic" effects possible on all modern-style organs. Third are the growing number of classicists, who favor the 17th-Century style of organ used by the great Johann Sebastian Bach - and who make modern-style organs sound as much as possible like Bach organs, or play instruments made...
...last week's meeting, one of the top-ranking U.S. classicists, Princeton University's young Choirmaster Carl Weinrich, who at Princeton University's Chapel plays an $18,000 modern organ as if it were Bach-type, offered modern organ compositions by Virgil Thomson, Roger Sessions, Walter Piston...
...Kremlin Line. Izvestia (News) is the official Government organ, as such is scarcely distinguishable from Pravda. On a given day it will carry with Pravda, an identical Stalin prikaz and an identical svodka in the same type and positions. When there is no Stalin Order, Izvestia and Pravda fill their two left columns with a peredovitsa (leading editorial...