"Pictures at an Exhibition - Promenade" on pipe organ - Rachel Flowers
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Rachel Flowers performs an excerpt from "Pictures at an Exhibition" by Modest Mussorgsky on the beautiful pipe organ at the First Methodist Church in Ventura, California, under the watchful eye of church organist Ivan Shobe.
"Pictures at an Exhibition" is a suite of 10 pieces plus a recurring and varied Promenade, originally composed for the piano in 1874. It has since been arranged for orchestra by Maurice Ravel, transformed into an epic rock performance piece by Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, and, as heard here, is perfectly suited for the queen of instruments, the pipe organ.
Recorded in this video on July 13, 2014, Pictures at an Exhibition is as relevant today as the day it was first composed.
This video is just one of the bonus features available July 11th on the BluRay release of “Hearing is Believing”, a film by Lorenzo DeStefano. Visit www.gravitasventures.com soon to pre-order the BluRay, DVD, and the June 20th Digital Release. For full movie information visit www.hearingisbelievingfilm.com.
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And he said: "hm..."
My God! This girl is a living MIRACLE!
I'm sure that she was one of the brightest stars in Keith's universe before he passed R.I.P. Keith, one of my heroes!.
Just beautifully played. She is amazing and there is no one that plays ELP music like her. God Bless her. What a gift and talent . Thanks for your Vids for all to enjoy.
i bet keith emerson sits in heaven hearing this with a smile on his face....
I love hearing Rachel play Emerson. I’m sure he’s smiling every time she played his music.
I too love hearing her play Emerson, and Zappa as well, but this particular and beautiful piece was written by Mussorgsky.
@@Matty88K ELP played Mussorgsky on Pictures at an Exibition. Very good album.
@@fw1421 Agreed, ELP's album is excellent, but the composer is still Mussorgsky. Just wanted to clarify for all the commenters crediting Emerson....Greg Lake also worked on writing the ELP version.
Priceless reaction at the end - first the "hmm" from the guy's reaction and then Rachel's reaction to his "hmm". Two syllables that aren't really even spoken but together, they speak volumes.
Mussorgsky would be happy to listen to Your rendition. BRAVO!
That sound of acceptance by the man was high praise in the language of organists.
This woman is astounding! I've seen a couple of her videos and each one is better than the last. She's a true music prodigy.
In every way!
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Wish that I could get a link to her performance at a trade show that she did WBMFTTSTNE part three every single note. Especially when it crescendos so fast at the climatic end. I think that Keith used Echoplex ™, but our Rachel Flowers here keyboarded the whole thing! Remarkable!
🎹🎼🎶🎵🎶🎹🔊🎧 ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ
Rachael, you're making me cry. Keep up the beautiful artwork.
Oh man, at 1:08 when the piece turns around and the full glory of the organ kicks in. Ecstasy.
Ecstasy is the perfect word for it. Just exquisite beyond compare.
Ecstasy
Brings me to tears.
Every time.
Agreed.. , Yes.., INDEED..!!! ❤🎶👍
Hearing Is Believing is a wonderful movie, a must see…
In a world of insanity, Rachel's talent does my heart good.
Just like hearing Keith again! Of course, she's amazing in her own right
she makes a believer out of everyone....does she not? Way to go Rachel!
Rachel Flowers impresses the heck out of me every time I see her play. Keith Emerson is smiling down on her, I'm sure.
The guy's one-sound reaction at the end was priceless!
The response when they realise she is not a dog and pony act, but the real deal.
Haha, and rachel's little chuckle..priceless!
I think he was jealous
Yeah, not too shabby...! :-D
@@Ed-lz4jv Probably not, but in awe. I mean he showed her the power of the organ, and all it's intricacies.
I've seen her playing guitar, piano, organ, etc, and there are people willing to help her with the technical details of technical details. Let Rachel play the music and do what she can do, let others carry her wings.
Exactly what I expected. Beautiful sound from one the great gifts given to us by the universe. Bravo, Rachel!
That is awesome. Rachel keeps Keith Emerson alive. Rachel is amazing!!!
Why Keith Emerson, and not Modest Mussorgsky?
@@tswrench because Rachel is playing the Keith Emerson version.
Keith Emerson could have kept Keith Emerson alive. What a waste. He had so much to offer, even if he could no longer play to his previous ability.
I can't imagine the sorrow and pain this young woman must have felt; and wondered why he would take his own life considering the adversity she herself has to daily overcome. Life is very strange.
by far the best version of this on this website. Bravo.
I couldn't even make it halfway through the video without loosing it.
I grew up listening to ELP pictures on vinyl.
Recorded in my home town....
Same here. Beautiful instrument, beautiful sound and beautiful talented lady.
That is 1 of the most beautiful pieces of music I've ever heard. Can't stop playing this video!
Rachel, I put my head back and closed my eyes and just let it fill me. Thank you for this!
From seeds of confusion Illusions dark blossoms have grown
1:08 when my goosebumps get bigger. And those "hmm"s at the end !!! Awesome Rachel.
Love Rachel and her gift of love for the world
Ms. Flowers, you are my new hero and I have very few. Bravo!
Rachael has a legion of Angels in her
Have always LOVED hearing, or performing, Pictures At An Exibition. . It has been a favorite of mine since childhood.. and yes..., I LOVE the sound (and feeling) of live pipe organ music... Standing in the church... it shakes the air, your body, and, the ground.. I LOVE IT..❣🎶👍
Rachel is AMAZING..!!!
Goosebumps... checkLump in throat... checktear in eye... checkWhat I wouldn't give to have been sitting in one of those pews... Incredible!!!
First time i've had a tear in my eye listening to this for a long time.Just awesome !!
The pipe organ is an utterly unique musical instrument, its sound is that of the building in which it is installed, there is no separating the two. The musician comes to the instrument. JS Bach made a living testing and tuning the organs of his day and composed specifically for the pipe organ.
This is an example of an intimate pipe organ, with a compact ambience that dictates the way it is played, very differently from the instrument with which we commonly associate from classic recordings. A specialist in location recording, I’ve had the pleasure of capturing a number of pipe organs, from the ‘intimate’ to the ridiculously sublime. The latter run the risk of being unusable for many compositions so long is the room reverberation time. ‘Pictures’ is a piece that can benefit from the longer decays with its call and response themes.
The pipe organ was a crowning technical achievement of humankind, some dating back over two thousand years and requiring a team to play. Climbing through the passageways and chambers of an instrument’s structure is like a journey into the past, revealing workrooms with parts under repair, locations not seen, spelunking inside a musical instrument. Entire chambers can be shut off for improvements, repairs, and of course, by the player’s controls for musical reasons.
The complexity is mind-boggling, with quantity of keys and pipes having no direct relation, the sound of a given note including from one to many pipes to build the harmonic sequence desired, as set by the mix (literally) of the controls. In a larger instrument the delay between pressing a key and hearing its sound is quite disorienting, demanding that the player musically execute fast passages well before hearing the result, which is frankly amazing.
Thank you, Rachel. Honored to hear from you. I am a serious fan. 🌺
She is so awesome and I love when she smiles!
Rachel, the soul of Keith is living in you. Watching you playing is always a great pleasure. Merci, merci et bravo!
Rachel is a gift of God!
If she really was a gift from God, you'd think her eyes would work.
Alex Paulsen - You sir are a douche. Regardless of your personal beliefs, whether valid or not, the statement you posted above is a very low-class example of what you could have conveyed if you felt the need to post anything at all.
😭😭😭so beautiful...very hard not to cry
As always................ WOW!! A spine tingling WOW! Thanks Rachel, always a pleasure.
She is a gift to all of us.
he was glad for the good use of the instrument, she was happy like a child with a new toy :-)
This lady is awesome! So gifted and modest. A joy.
Fantastic.
I'd love to have been sitting at the back of that church.
Brava 👏
I love the little grunt of approval at the end!
She is truly amazing..why do I well up in tears whenever I see and hear her play..
WOW! Rachel always blows me away. EXCELLENT!
Brilliant,
Mussorgsky would have been proud as for Keith Emerson 🎹🎶👍
This awesome, majestic, and solemn melody‘s her playing is off the charts
Bravo, Rachel!!! Fabulous work as usual, my dear!!! Keep it up!!!!
That was the most eloquent exchange of "huhs" in music history.
William Crookshank .... What's a " Hum " ...
@@jamiemorgan4146 What they both said at the end of the piece.
Quite! I thought he might have been a tad more appreciative!
absolutely amazing... and the main organist reaction "Hm!" is priceless 🥰
It would be so nice to hear Rachel playing on the great organ of Notre-Dame de Paris, masterpiece of Cavaillé-Coll, as soon as it will be repaired following the disaster of April 15th 2019.
effectivement ça serait impressionnant !
JEANIE FLOWERS.... I send love and pink light to the beautiful heart of Princess Rachel. Rejoice sweet girl, Keith lives!
Seems every she lays her hands on becomes an Instrument of her soul and we are invited to listen , Bless you Rachel
I need more of this please Rachel...it's like a great wave of joy that inflates my being...I want to laugh and cry at the same time.
Rachel, you are so amazing! You keep the spirit of Keith alive.
She's is so adorably creative .. but it reminds me of Keith, and how sad that his early end was.. Thanks for keeping the music alive, dear Rachel.
Absolutely beautiful! Rachel is truly gifted.
I loved when he said hum. Simply amazing
MORE! MORE! Please, give us MORE!
I can't believe I just now found this. TH-cam has become such a convoluted mess over the last year or so, I barely see any of the people I originally was subscribed to, or somehow have been unsubbed from their channels.😜 This is yet another solid gold performance by Rachel, and I'll bet that was probably her first experience with a 'real' pipe organ! You have no idea how I feel right now, *knowing* that you are blind and ultra-talented at the keyboards (and pretty much whatever instrument you pick up)! I've been playing off and on since I was 6 or 7, but never had formal lessons, due to too many other interests, projects, etc. Now at 63, I wish I could go back and at least become half as proficient as you are. Wonderful performance Rachel... keep it up!😍👍👍
Old guy - "This is a pipe organ." Rachel - "Hold my beer."
I love the little laugh at the end....your awesome Rachel!!
This is amazing. Rachel I admire you without reserve. I am a 73 yo man from South Africa. I am really impressed. Even if you could see this would be excellent. Without vision it seems lile a miracle brought about by countless hours of hard work and practise. Gpd bless. Keep it up. You are a inspirational example of what may be achieved. Thanks for sharing!
WoW !!! What can you say .... Rachel is just so Amazing and a Gift to all. : )
Wow....no words.
Hum is a synonym of speechless!!
Incredible keith is smiling from the other side hearing this
He must be.
Wouldn't Modest Mussorgsky be smiling too? After all, it is his composition.
Mussorgsky..smiling..Keith shouldve stuck around
even though he did not create it?
I'm confused,. He covered it.
Both Mussorgsky and Emerson were blessed, they had eyesight.
Rachel on the other hand doesn’t but she nailed this tune her blood is worth bottling.
Love Ivan's reaction. Hum.... You blew him away!
perfectly normal reaction from someone realizing theyre owned
I got the impression that he was saying "whoop-de-do", like, "Big deal!". That he wasn't impressed. And so Rachel went " Hmph!!" in disbelief!
theres no way he wasnt impressed. that was the "hmmph" of "sonofabitch"
it's a translation of I'm speechless!!
An organ is an imposing instrument for anyone. Rachel is an amazing angel making music to share her feelings with us. There are times when an angel needs to have help with her wings. Here was a perfect example of someone knowing when to support the wings and when to listen.
Just listening to her play really makes a day much brighter.
God bless Rachel Flowers !!
My goodness; look at all of the switches, pedals and knobs on that organ! Unreal!
that was knocked out of the park just now
She may have opened a door for that gentleman that he will never be able to close.
That Sounded Wonderful... (and the man's response at end... priceless)
My god Rachel, you are one unreal lady.....goodness me....superb superb superb. Such feel and touch....bless you forever...such musical talent
This is absolutely incredible and inspiring. Beyond words, really. The world needs more young artists like Rachel.
I don[t know how many times I have seen this vid, I still choke up when Rachael opens it up.
love you Rachel !!!!!!! What a great artist !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I forgot to mention that the sound quality on this video is EXCELLENT!!!!!
SHE IS A TRUE GIFT OF GOD
truly exceptional! Rachel never ceases to amaze
Love it !!! Eye's teared up absolutely wonderful
Re: the "views" count. I'm probably accountable for half of them. This... is amazing.
And I have a third of them!
Again Wow..Keith..would be proud.
William Earney: Never mind Keith, BACH would have been proud of this.
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky is smiling from beyond
Superb!
This is magnificent Rachel, one of my favorite musical works of all time played to perfection. Much love, - wright sublette
Youc are playing very Well. GOD BLESS YOU
I’m in tears.thank you!
Excellent. She plays like a Angel.
She is pure genius!
I only get goose-bumps from this if it's played exactly right ... it's going to take ten minutes for them to go away. Now I'm either going to go listen to Mussorgsky or Emerson, Lake, and Palmer.
I thought this was going to be boring... BUT not with Rachel & could you imagine with her learning all the controls on that pipe organ! WOW
Rachel is so talented - wonderful!
Outstanding performance on the pipe organ....
Wonderfull woman! From Sevilla city, Spain, thaks lovely girl.
You go girl. Just love 💕 it
Just now having this pop up on my TH-cam app. When she began playing the second manual, chills enveloped me. Truly amazing.
Quelle classe...quelle maîtrise !!!! Magistral...!
Seeing/hearing her play this with both hands AND both feet on a completely unfamiliar instrument just takes my breath away!!
Magnificent! Rachel is a national treasure. Fabulous!!!
I love her. So fantastic!
When Keith Emerson performed this opening Promenade on the pipe organ on the ELP album of Pictures at an Exhibition I LOVED IT! Then when Rachel played ELPs version on TH-cam I was VERY IMPRESSED (as everyone is with everything Rachel does)! BUT, THIS IS THE PIECE D' RESISTANCE!!! BRAVO, TO YOU, RACHEL! AND, TO YOU, JEANIE, for posting this!!!!! I LOVE THE SOUND AND POWER OF THE PIPE ORGAN.