ska invita
back on the other side
Youtube threw up this tourist phone video at me
seems there is a rich tradition of frightening (unimpressing more accurately) small children at Notre Dame with organ improv!
Which lead me to look into it a little. Olivier Latry seems to be the improv king of France these days
And the organ version of Messiaen's - L'Ascension (1932) is supposedly the work that kind of set the whole tradition off (though not sure why, presumably there is no improv in it...or is there? i havent listened yet)
(ETA: this is uneasy unpleasant listening...reminiscent of the Blakes 7 soundtrack in a lot of places!!)
Thats as far as I've got. I cant find a good beginners article to the tradition
seems there is a rich tradition of frightening (unimpressing more accurately) small children at Notre Dame with organ improv!
Which lead me to look into it a little. Olivier Latry seems to be the improv king of France these days
And the organ version of Messiaen's - L'Ascension (1932) is supposedly the work that kind of set the whole tradition off (though not sure why, presumably there is no improv in it...or is there? i havent listened yet)
(ETA: this is uneasy unpleasant listening...reminiscent of the Blakes 7 soundtrack in a lot of places!!)
Thats as far as I've got. I cant find a good beginners article to the tradition
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