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Recently, Carnegie officials had to face an agonizing acoustical problem: the hall needed a new pipe organ. The old instrument, installed in 1929 but never totally satisfactory, had been removed in the mid-'60s. But to install a new console and set of pipes would have meant tearing out the stage walls and changing their shape. To Carnegie's executive director, Julius Bloom, that would have been as risky as prying apart a Stradivarius violin. What...
What Carnegie did was go electronic. Last week at a gala recital presented by Concert Organist Virgil Fox, the hall showed off its newest feature-a behemoth that can growl, sing, tinkle, purr and blast in a way unmatched by any other organ. A one-of-a-kind creation built by the Rodgers Organ Co. of Hillsboro, Ore., the new instrument is the most up-to-date and expensive electronic organ in the world. Carrying a price tag of $200,000, it took 23 months to design, construct and install. The finished product fairly bulges with audio-oscillators, sine-wave...
...Factory, was identical to its predecessor right up to the album design. The one thing missing was imagination--almost every critic had his fun with the title of one cut, "Sometimes I Feel So Uninspired." Even worse, that concert tour was marked by the overshadowing of Stevie Winwood on organ by a part of the Muscle Shoals rhythm section and the omnipresent Rebop on bongos, congas, and other assorted skins. With Capaldi prancing about as the meaningless figurehead, one actually wondered if the Traffic known to millions had really existed...
...tune is marked instrumentally by the melodic exchange between organ and synthesizer which further on develops into an exchange of several phrases between Wood's flute and Winwood's piano. The piece reaches its climax with several rapid-fire sax glissandos and the re-entering of the synthesizer. There is not only a shift in melody and countermelody among instruments, but a shift in rhythm, too. Finally, in the title cut, Winwood delivers one of his most vocally concentrated efforts with lyrics along the same theme as "Sometimes I Feel So Uninspired...
...Busch-Reisinger Museum houses Harvard's collection of German art, both medieval and modern. On display now are some works of 20th c. German Expressionists--always worth a special trip. Open 9 a.m.-4:45 p.m., Mon.-Sat., with free organ concerts in the main hall Thursdays at noon...