Organ recital
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An organ recital is a concert at which music especially written for the organ is played.
The music played at such recitals was typically written for pipe organ, which includes church organs, and symphonic organs (also known as concert organs). However restoration of theatre and cinema organs (such as the Wurlitzers) allows performances of many pieces that can only be played on theatre organs.
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[edit] History
Recitals appear to have arisen from playing before and after religious services. In 19c synagogues organs appeared before their use in services was allowed; instead their purpose was to give concerts before the sundown Shabat service. e also find that Sweelinck's duties included the giving of extra-litugical concerts in Amsterdam's Oude Kerk.[1]
[edit] Logistics
Pipe organs are not, in general, portable instruments. The venues for organ recitals using those instruments are thus the churches, theatres, or halls where the organs are housed.
However, with some organs the console is portable to a limited extent (such as, for example, being attached to a platform that can be raised or lowered, which is often the case for theatre organs, but rarely the case for church organs). Where this is the case, the console is moved during the recital so that the audience can see the organist playing.
[edit] Notable venues and recitals
The Dane and Polly Bales Organ Recital Hall at the University of Kansas was specifically constructed for organ recitals.
To show off its new concert organ, the Walt Disney Concert Hall held a series of organ recitals in 2004 and 2005.
The Harvard Organ Society holds regular organ recitals at the Adolphus Busch Hall.
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[edit] External links
- Walt Disney Concert Hall Organ Recitals 2004/2005
- Dane and Polly Bales Organ Recital Hall
- Scheduled organ recitals for 2006 on the Madison Symphony Orchestra's Overture Concert Organ
- The programme for a 2004 organ recital at the University of Mississippi
- Harvard Organ Society recitals
- UK Cinema organ recital schedule
