Music appreciation

[3.0L]

Dad loved this piece. He'd fire up the Philco, start the record, and then tell all of us to be quiet. We didn't need any orders as the music was simply breathtaking:

[Buug959]

Originally Posted by 3.0L

Dad loved this piece. He'd fire up the Philco, start the record, and then tell all of us to be quiet. We didn't need any orders as the music was simply breathtaking:

Your father had great taste.

[hubbahubba]

Can you imagine hearing that, and feeling that in person? The bass in person must have been overwhelming. Truly incredible.

[rpseward]

This is awesome

[Esteban]

A classic song. A version of this was posted a few days ago in the "What song are you listening to" thread. Post #10846, if you're interested in hearing that version.

As I mentioned in that thread, I had a computer game many years ago called Dark Castle that started with this song. I spent a lot of fun hours on that game. When I hear the song it makes me think of the game.

[BMWbiker]

It is a beautiful piece of music, performed on a majestic instrument by a skilled organist.

Here are a few pieces of trivia.

Note how the organist pauses for a significant amount of time in between phrases. Listen to the decay time in that cathedral: the amount of time that sound in the church continues to resonate after the organ stops playing. It's several seconds long—quite impressively resonant.

Note how low the organ can play, especially the pedal tones. It has three ranks of 32 foot pipes. Depending on whether they are stopped or open, that means it can play either over an octave lower than an electric bass, or over two octaves lower. Those tones are subsonic—the fundamental pitches are lower than what we can hear. However, we can feel them, we can hear the overtones depending on how they were designed, and we can most definitely hear their effect on other notes. You can also see the organist operate the pedals, including the pedals alone in a few spots.

I enjoyed it. Thanks for posting it.

[2000cs]

My dad would occasionally sit at the piano and play Claire de Lune. Just the first few bars. Makes that piece sentimental for me.

A couple of times he played “drop the needle” where he would select an album, put it on, and set (drop) the needle in the middle of a track. We had to guess the album, composer, piece, performer (orchestra) and conductor. Learned a lot.

Now I listen to a wide range of music: country, classical, jazz, opera, rock. A broad music education is a great thing.

[Esteban]

My dad's favorite music was Frank Sinatra. When I was a kid everyone in my house would sing along to “ol' blue eyes.”