Pimped Out Ride, Valkyrie Style
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- You've never had such a ride! The organist takes this audience on the ride of a lifetime, Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries. It's hard to believe that this is just ONE organist and was recorded LIVE with NO edits. Incredible! To have Dr Hohman perform in your area, contact Michael's Music Service.
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That is a beautiful pipe organ.
ABSOLUTELY INCREDEBLE! Nothing and I mean NOTHING compares to the SOUND of a REAL PIPE ORGAN!
Here is some more. th-cam.com/video/4x9QIt_fqQE/w-d-xo.html
oh man I wish I could listen to that in person. Amazing!!!
Glorious! It is interesting to note that the next peice on this playlist is at Stanford University because the rivalry between Stanford U and the University of California arose from personal & business differences between Edward F. Searles (Methuen Memorial Music Hall) and Leland Stanford - two of the four owners/controllers of the Central & Southern Pacific Railroads. Searles built Serlo Hall (now the Methuen Memorial Music Hall) and very generously supported UCal, while Stanford built his university as a memorial to his son, Leland Stanford,Jr. The MMMH was designed by Henry Vaughan (of Washington Cathedral fame) specifically to house the old Boston Music Hall organ, and was built adjacent to Searles' Methuen Organ Company and United States Tubular Bell Company. After Searles' death in 1920 the organ factory complex & music hall were purchased by Ernest Skinner.
That organ is truly a thing of beauty
What a masterful performance!
Absolutely incredible. Thankyou.
It doesn't really get any better than that. Thanks for the chills!
wow this guy is great! he has alot of fun :)
i love this place- methuen is so cool. and i love when he throws his arms up in the air :p
Having been a fanatic of pipe organ music for thirty years this is fabulous! Most people don't realize that the pipe organ exceeds the range of the symphony orchestra on both the low and high ends.
Especially those huge thirty two foot contra bass pedal pipes.The organist is like a pilot at the console of a 747 flying the audience on a sonic journey.He or she must not only know the music but all the controls at their hands and feet.
good gracious listen to that bass, this is one incredible organ!!!!!!!!!!
Outstanding, and I just love that case - it leaves nothing to the imagination.
How majestic!
great organ, great song, great organist!
Lots of coordination!
This is awesome...
Fantastic!
I am very tempted to drive upto my last apartment complex in the near future.. and blast this at top volume on a loudspeaker with a 74 Dart Sport as my car...I had some pretty bad memories there.
Might as well ride in style to there and my next job :)
mansharker8 And yes its still on my mind....anyone know of any good Flowmaster vendors online? Id love to get a set of mufflers with a deep rumble.
Charlie don't surf!
Ride? What a flight !!!!! I should be so lucky to play this.
I love that awsome powerfull sound of an organ.
AWESOME!!! I can't wait to go there next month! ( Methuen,MA,USA
You should see the console of the Atlantic city Convention Hall organ. It makes this look about a quarter of the size. That organ is a MONSTER!
Extraordinary!
We play this loud on the choppers when we attack out of the morning sun. Scares the hell out of Charlie.
I have this DVD!!! Midnight Pipes! He is awesome!!
This was filmed/played at Meuthuen memorial music hall in Meuthuen,MA,USA. I went to a couple of concerts there in the summer of 2009. It was breathtaking. Such awesome sound, especially with the low notes. Inside of the building is really something to see! I can't wait to go back in 2010!!
wonderful preformance
5 stars. Bravo!
I can never get enough of Dr.F.Hohman. I know I'm not supposed to talk of this but if he ever does a public concert show in Indianapolis, IN, I'd like to attend. My theatre organ friends might not understand that I do like Classical (NOT CHURCH) organ music and it's just the flip-side of the nickel. Dr Fred is an excellent performing artist and has wonderful technical expertise. I like theatre organ and classical organ, the two balance each other out though they are completely different.
GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!
Interesting history about this organ. It was built for the Boston Music Hall in 1863 as a concert performance instrument. When the BSO was founded, there was no room for both them and the organ on the stage so it had to go. Luckily A wealthy man named Searles purchased this organ and had this great building built in Methuen just to house the organ.
sheesh who opened te toes on the trebles in that organ its really screamy that cant be original. excellent playing thou love it !!
I'm an organ student and didn't realise that I alone had more range than an orchestra! That is a fascinating bit of information.
'Tis also an amazing performance.
I would love to see it and give it a try !
Wow!!!
Wow, the methuen speaks this piece with such authority.
PURE POWER. PURE PIPE ORGAN MUSCLES.
Right you are!
esecuzione strepitosa!!! Incredibile, un virtuosismo senza eguali!!!
Look for the Thalben Ball recording from the Alexandra Palace. Brilliant reeds from Henry Willis!
OK, spelling and grammar aside, this IS an awesome video. It's been years, but I've been to Methuen many times, and what an organ! And I don't think I ever heard it played this well. Amazing! (no doubt about it...)
@ryorgan Very well said.
No, it's by Edwin H Lemare, city organist of Portland, Maine, for many years. In the music I publish, there is a fine article by John Henderson, Hon Librarian RSCM, which tells about his music and life. The title is "Andantino."
Excellent performance of a very difficult arrangement. Please, please suggest Dr. Hohman to play Lemare's transcription of the Tannhauser Prelude - not just the Pilgrims Chorus, but the whole Prelude. It's a masterful arrangement and I've never heard anyone play it, heard about any performances of it, or found any recordings of it. It's VERY difficult (which is probably why we don't hear it), but considering his outstanding performance above, I bet Dr. Hohman can pull it off.
wow. takes a lot of skill to play with all fours. nice
This is the transcription by Edwin H Lemare. Fred is a specialist in his music.
Methuen, Massachusetts, is near Boston.
Don't miss Louis Vierne's First Organ Symphony Final, another thrill ride inspired by this one.
@DanFrederiksen Oh you can tell the difference between electronic organs and pipe organs when you hear them in person, fairly easily!
I've never heard of this musician until today, and never seen his playing. I thought Vigil Fox was dead. If Virgil was alive today he had to say Wow! Who is this Dr. Holman? Incredulous!!!!!
R. L. A.
Virginia
@NJPurling It was moved and altered in the early 1900s and the non-tracker console was added. You can read more in Barbara Owen's new book on the Methuen Organ. I'm reading it now and it's fantastic. You'll also find more info at mmmh dot org.
Well, sure. I hope to post some of my ACCH video soon. This Walcker was made in 1863 versus 1932.
The Lemare transcription is violently difficult, I rate it up there with Vierne 6 in difficulty!
@benenoit
I believe this piece is a transcription by Edwin H. Lemare
Bardon Music has it in their catalogue. Good luck ;)
@3dwurli I know historically synthesizers have not been perfect. that doesn't mean there is anything inherently impossible to duplicate there. look at the organ and imagine its surface as a body of water with waves on it. you just have to reproduce that wave surface if you want to be perfectly the same. and you can simplify the layout a lot and still get a sound that noone could distinguish if in the room with eyes closed
Check on George Thalben Ball's interpretation from the Alexandra Palace in 1931.
WAWGNAWHHH !!
Sure, just Google it or ask at your local music store. All of the music I have restored (and I have not yet restored this title) is available on my website michaelsmusicservice-dot-com. It is also available through many libraries.
To be more precise, i wanted to say that for the 1/16 note to befound half way between the beats and for the third (upbeat) 1/8 note to be found exatly 2/3 the way between beats is extremely difficult.
Here the organist has a tendancy to play one 1/8 note followed by two 1/16 notes as if the beats were ordinary 1/4 notes.
@DBGOGIRL This is Methuen Music Hall, near Boston. Impressive, huh?
Wonderful use of an instrument like that. THE Spirit of the V… and Wagner and Hollywood, and Now…………..You did great, dear. NOW? Can't wait to meet you. Want more. Your not-so-humbe and now, just one of your many interested listeners… CVD Rep. Of The Most High.
@DanFrederiksen I have yet the hear one, and I have heard a very high quality sample of a 32' stop and it was immediately obvious to me that a speaker was responsible for the sound. I sincerely doubt a cone speaker (even if well made and properly housed) can ever accurately reproduce the sound that an actual pipe will make in the given environment.
Not a church -- Methuen Memorial Music Hall. It was built to house the organ.
@NJPurling Oh, and I don't think anything on the tracker keydesk is connected anymore.
Isn't this the organ that the Salt Lake Tabernacle was built to replicate (and expand further)? BTW, what is your problem with G. Donald Harrison - he is the one who was tonal director for the famous Skinner at Salt Lake Tabernacle.
@benenoit It's nearly ready! Visit michaelsmusicservice . com and sign up for my email or Like michaelsmusicservice on Face book to get the announcement.
did the methuen receive a new auxillary console?
the style is different, i think.
I'll bet a few windows got blown out during this one.
Did the transcription can be buy somewhere?
Is the original console of this instrument still connected? You see it very briefly during the video..
Must invade. POLAND!!
Kill da wabbit!
Those dotted rhythms are really tricky, eh?
Even for orchestral players.
It's still a "piece" because it is not in "song" form and it is not titled as a song. We would call this an arrangement, a piece, or a section. You could also, I dunno, call it by the real name: Die Walkure Act 3 Part I.
No, sadly. It hasn't been a tracker organ for a long time. You can see the original console in the middle, behind the current one. Info at mmmh dot org.
I've published a great arrangement of the Intro to Act III from Tannhäuser (michaelsmusicservice dot com) and I've got some stuff from Lohengrin in the works. WWII really put the dampers on people hearing and playing Wagner, but current generations are more interested in what he offered.
Go to michaelsmusicservice . com and look at Overture to Tannhauser.to see Warren's transcription. (TH-cam doesn't allow links here.) It's an even harder transcriptioin that is earlier than Lemare's. I've offered free music to anyone who would play it and I've never had any takers!
@DanFrederiksen There is when you consider the work that has gone into creating the sound. An electronic/digital organ cannot match the sound of a pipe organ. Speakers work entirely differently from pipes.
Its like a digital piano doesnt sound exactly like a real piano, no matter how perfect you make it.
@kinglimochris Not many would agree with you, I think, but it would make a great video if you did!
@ryorgan Personally I feel organ builders of these's days are not capable of designing such admirable case work. They don't build them like they use to thats for sure........
Why are there two consoles to this organ?
Does the original console still work?
I can understand the reason for a detached console. the player is rather hidden under the organ at the original console.
Is it his own transcription?
@getreadytowiggle1991 How'd you guess? :)
@DanFrederiksen Hrrmm....they have spent millions on electronic organs....they are still nothing like real pipes!
It's not a song, it has no lyrics. This is a 'piece' :-)
@3dwurli nothing magical about air vibration
@3dwurli sigh, you're not listening to what I say
/watch?v=mNZwgNlhmG8 jonathan scott playing the overture to tannhauser
"Doughts"? I can see you're not "spellingmaster328"...
too much for one men, but very good
I follow you, but in this case the original most definitely had lyrics. The Valkyries is the second opera of Wagner's Ring"
youtube . com/watch?v=1aKAH_t0aXA
looks like a fairly expensive instrument.
with the right electronics you could probably match it with 1500$
@planetery -- Maybe you should be dissing the recording engineer instead of the organist. Poor microphone placement can and will obscure any articulation, particularly in a very large building like this. You can make a symphony orchestra, playing the same piece, sound like an incomprehensible pile of notes if the microphones aren't chosen and placed properly. I've heard a lot worse than this on "professional" recordings.
WTF??? All I hear is a bunch of noise. I could sit on that organ and make it sound better.
Read up on Wagner's life to learn to real story. You may not be old enough to remember that the music of the Beatles was, for a time, disparaged widely because of an ingracious comment by John Lennon. Nothing to do with the music, really.
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