SOP Podcast #13 - Vidas Pinkevicius in Demonstration of the Largest Pipe Organ in Lithuania10/25/2015 
Welcome to episode 13 of Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast!
Today I'm sharing my October 13 organ demonstration for a group of lawyers from Germany who participated at the conference at Vilnius University. They were very curious audience and quite knowledgeable about music so their questions to me were pretty thoughtful and we had a special connection. "Lead actually is quite dangerous for your health if you chew or touch too much so organ builders handle the pipes very carefully with special gloves and don't put them into their mouth carelessly. But because they have to really blow and check the pipes the officials of the European Union in 2006 tried to forbid all lead materials in electronics and manufacturing and one of the victims of this initiative would have been pipe organs because lead (together with tin) as a material is everywhere for pipework. But I believe that influential organ builders succeeded in convincing the EU officials that lead is not too dangerous if pipes are just standing in the building and handled properly during the construction process. So they allowed organ pipes to be build from this alloy as well." Here's the video version of this organ demonstration:
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Welcome to episode 12 of Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast!
Colin Andrews is an internationally acclaimed concert organist originally from England and currently living in the US. He's mostly known for his extensive concert tours - about 40 a year and he recently recorded 7 CD series of complete organ works of Olivier Messiaen. In this conversation he shares his advice and insights about practicing and preparing for recitals physically and mentally, especially because he will be travelling on a large concert tour to Russia and Italy shortly.
"We have this person who wants to sabotage everything and they call it Self One. But then there's the person inside that knows what to do, the Subconscious, the Inner Computer. And that's Self Two. So if you allow Self Two to take over, then you can get in touch with your absolutely maximum potential and all your musicianship and communication is completely without interruption."
Relevant links: Concert Artist Cooperative Colin Andrews on Google Colin Andrews on Spotify Enjoy and share your comments below. If you like these conversations with the experts from the organ world, please help spread the word about the SOP Podcast by sharing it with your organist friends. SOP Podcast #11: Sophie-Veronique Cauchefer-Choplin on the French Tradition of Organ Improvisation10/11/2015
"I decided to study improvisation with Rolande Falcinelli. And I remember the first moment when she said to me, 'if you want to be my student, I want to listen to you. I give you this theme - you have 6 minutes.' The form was very free. It was just what I can make with just one theme. I remember 6 minutes passing in my clock and I tried to make the maximum and after I finished, I turned my head, I saw the face of Rolande with a little smile and she said, 'OK, you can prepare for concourse to become my student. Now I can say to you what was good, what was not good.' She remembered exactly all. She said - 'at this moment it was too long, at this moment - it was too short...' And so I became her student. It was a very good moment in my life".
Watch the video version of the conversation (my apologies for the background sounds in the hotel lobby):
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Sophie-Veronique Cauchefer-Choplin's website Enjoy and share your comments below. If you like these conversations with the experts from the organ world, please help spread the word about the SOP Podcast by sharing it with your organist friends.
Welcome to episode 10 of Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast!
Dr. Michael Bauer is Professor of Organ and Church Music at the University of Kansas. "Arts ministry is an attempt to help human beings incorporate beauty into their individual and corporate lives in an appropriate fashion. It fosters the creative and artistic dimension of the life of God's people who are empowered by the Holy Spirit to manifest the full meaning of their creation in the image of God - the Imago Dei." Relevant links: Dr. Michael Bauer's profile on the University of Kansas website Arts Ministry: Nurturing the Creative Life of God's People |
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