All The Stops: The Glorious Pipe Organ And Its American Masters
Autor Craig Whitneyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 sep 2004
For
centuries,
pipe
organs
stood
at
the
summit
of
musical
and
technological
achievement,
admired
as
the
most
complex
and
intricate
mechanisms
the
human
race
had
yet
devised.
InAll
The
Stops,
New
York
Timesjournalist
Craig
Whitney
journeys
through
the
history
of
the
American
pipe
organ
and
brings
to
life
the
curious
characters
who
have
devoted
their
lives
to
its
music.
From the mid-19th to the mid-20th century, organ music was wildly popular in America. Organ builders in New York and New England could hardly fill the huge demand for both concert hall and home organs. Master organbuilders found ingenious ways of using electricity to make them sound like orchestras. Organ players developed cult followings and bitter rivalries. One movement arose to restore to American organs the clarity and precision that baroque organs had in centuries past, while another took electronic organs to the rock concert halls, where younger listeners could be found. But while organbuilders and organists were fighting with each other, popular audiences lost interest in the organ. Today, organs are beginning to make a comeback in concert halls and churches across America. Craig Whitney brings the story to life and up to date in a humorous, engaging book about the instruments and vivid personalities that inspired his lifelong passion: the great art of the majestic pipe organ.
Hear the sounds of some of the pipe organs featured in ALL THE STOPS
From the mid-19th to the mid-20th century, organ music was wildly popular in America. Organ builders in New York and New England could hardly fill the huge demand for both concert hall and home organs. Master organbuilders found ingenious ways of using electricity to make them sound like orchestras. Organ players developed cult followings and bitter rivalries. One movement arose to restore to American organs the clarity and precision that baroque organs had in centuries past, while another took electronic organs to the rock concert halls, where younger listeners could be found. But while organbuilders and organists were fighting with each other, popular audiences lost interest in the organ. Today, organs are beginning to make a comeback in concert halls and churches across America. Craig Whitney brings the story to life and up to date in a humorous, engaging book about the instruments and vivid personalities that inspired his lifelong passion: the great art of the majestic pipe organ.
Hear the sounds of some of the pipe organs featured in ALL THE STOPS
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781586482626
ISBN-10: 1586482629
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 141 x 213 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: PublicAffairs
Colecția PublicAffairs
ISBN-10: 1586482629
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 141 x 213 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: PublicAffairs
Colecția PublicAffairs
Notă biografică
Craig
R.
Whitneyhas
worked
as
reporter
and
foreign
correspondent
for
theNew
York
Timesin
New
York,
Saigon,
Bonn,
Moscow,
Paris,
and
London.
He
has
also
served
as
European
diplomatic
correspondent,
foreign
editor,
and
Washington
editor.
He
is
currently
Assistant
Managing
Editor
of
theTimes.
An
amateur
organist,
he
has
played
on
and
written
about
pipe
organs
around
the
world.