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Friday, August 21, 2009

Organ Recessional after the Tridentine Mass on Divine Mercy Sunday - 2009

This one video has two parts. It breaks into Part II about 5:20.

The first part was taken after the Tridentine Latin Mass at St. Stanislaus on Divine Mercy Sunday in 2009. The organist is currently working on his DMA from Eastman. He just won a major organ competition in Dublin. After the organ recessional you will hear clapping. Normally the regular attendees of the TLM do not clap after Mass. It's not that they don't like the music, or aren't appreciative of the efforts, or they are just plain nasty -- they aren't. They believe Church is devoted to God. Some stay to listen to the organ postlude and it's not uncommon to see people with their heads down and crying. They aren't sad; quite the opposite, the are gloriously happy to be in the house of God with so much beauty around them. They believe Church is a quiet, oasis in which to pray. Church should be a house of devotion; not commotion. When they socialize it is either outside on the Church steps, or in the narthex.

The people who did clap are not usual attendees of the TLM. So they didn't realize what the Catholic protocol is at the TLM. That's okay, they usually return anyways.

The second video is of Dr. Jennifer Pascual playing the organ at St. Patrick's Cathedral in NYC. She was awarded her DMA in Organ from Eastman. She was choir director and organist for our Latin Mass Community in Rochester along with playing at Sacred Heart Cathedral, before the wreckovation. Jenny just got married last weekend at the Cathedral. I was invited but couldn't go.

Both piece are the Toccata from the 5th Symphony of Charles-Marie Widor. The video was taped by a former choir member in Rochester.

The 5th is a major piece of French Romantic organ music. It is, as they say, a "warhorse" among organist.
Promulgated by In the choir loft on Friday, August 21, 2009

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

What beautiful music. This is pleasing to the Lord!

August 21, 2009 at 10:44 PM
Ben Anderson said...

This is my favorite post yet! I love organ music!

August 22, 2009 at 6:24 AM
In the choir loft said...

Ben, I like organ music too. Any special genre of organ music that you like better than another? Maybe I could post some organ music for ya. Tell me what you like? It truly is the King of Instruments.

August 22, 2009 at 11:13 AM
Ben Anderson said...

I'm not enlightened enough to describe what I like and don't like - I just don't know that much about it - except that I generally like organ music (and almost all classical music for that matter). I've been listening to on Internet radio station (wcpe) for the last year or so and have been learning more about classical music as time goes on, but there's so much I don't know.

August 22, 2009 at 1:54 PM
In the choir loft said...

If you like what I posted, then you like French Romantic period. I'll find a few more of them and post, but now I'm thinking maybe not everybody would like it.

Have you tried listening to the organ station/s on Radio365.com?

August 22, 2009 at 3:02 PM

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