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foraloysius wrote, There are several performances on Youtube. I like this one. EEEEEEEEK! Ouch, my ears!! (With all due respect) To me, the mixtures (shrill-sounding stops) in this organ are not well regulated and finished, and sound too loud and too screechy. That may be partly due to the...

The entire Eastertide season is early this year. It's because Easter is based on the lunar calendar: Easter always falls on the first Sunday following the first full moon following the spring equinox. http://geography.about.com/library/misc/uceaster.htm

There really is no set answer for this, Gary. It will depend on the type of organ, the size of the church, the acoustical environment, etc. I would play it more slowly and somewhat "detachée" on a big romantically voiced organ in a very resonant space; as opposed to somewhat faster and more...

Did you also post this to Vacuumland?

Thanks - that's the sort of comment that a thereminist really cherishes. Most of us do the "oooeeeoo" stuff because it pays the bills, but we're really happier on the concert stage playing classical music. btw, this coming April I have a mini-tour [four concerts] of Western Maryland and...

Contemplating the rapidity with which the ratio of chaff to wheat has exploded in every corner of the Internet offers a fascinating glimpse into human nature, or, if you will, even the Human Condition itself. "The Internet" [long before it was called that] was devised in the late 1950s during...

Yes, the "dark side" of the theremin is what we call "Hollywood oooEEEooo." But just as the organ is capable of far more than subterranean phantom dirges, so too is the theremin capable of much more than creepy spine-tingling sounds! I have made a sideline career out of concertizing on the...

I will be playing the theremin! http://www.137.com/theremin

I will be flying to Cincinnati on Thursday, January 30 to do four performances and a Telarc recording of Milkos Rósza's Spellbound Concerto with the highly acclaimed Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Erich Kunzel, conductor, at the Cincinnati Music Hall. I will rehearse with the orchestra Friday...

My favorite: "Nasty Habits" http://stage.blockbuster.com/outlet/catalog/movieDetails/24239#readMore

Mea Culpa Well, premature senility rears its ugly head once again -- OF COURSE, I meant that the organ part of "The Sound of Music" was recorded on a 20th Century Fox sound stage and not MGM. Duh. And, similarly, the Wurltzer I was referring to was at Fox - not MGM. A couple years ago, I had a...

Good Grief. The filth and racial slurs remind me of why I really just can't stand HipHop and Rap. Who needs all that hatred and negativity? Give me Brahms or Debussy over that violence and bleakness. Music? Marginally.

Yeah. We felt that one all the way down in L.A. I was working in Century City, on the 37th floor of the 44-story twin towers. We felt the building slightly tremble and someone yelled, "Earthquake!" It was hardly felt - the building regularly bowed and buffeted in the wind which was a stronger...

I have a good friend who is a film music 'fanatic' and most particularly of the 1940s and '50s. If anyone knows the answer to your question about Rósza, he will. Incidentally, this past October I went to a special screening at the Directors Guild in Hollywood of another epic film with a Rósza...

Cute outfit, Rick - look like you're on your way to a HipHop concert haha!

hmm... six hours of polka would be a bit much for me! But, then, you ARE "polkanut!" *smile*

Here are a few photos of our new year festivities -- first, having our annual "Garlicky" dinner at one of our favorite restaurants, The Stinking Rose - where everything on the menu (even ice cream!) is made with garlic. Thanks to our Indiana friends the Franklins once again for this annual...