From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npois!alice!rabbit!ark
Newsgroups: net.music
Title: Re: Organs worth a visit
Article-I.D.: rabbit.466
Posted: Mon May 17 20:32:20 1982
Received: Tue May 18 01:48:36 1982
References: eisx.146

If you're in New York looking at the organ at the Cathedral
of Saint John the Divine, don't forget to visit Saint Paul's
Chapel on the Columbia University campus.  It's a small chapel
with a large organ -- about 5,000 pipes.  Last summer they gave
a series of free Bach concerts there -- an opportunity for local
organists to show off.  They were GOOD!

The tracker organ at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center is also
first rate.  It's almost as large as the one at Saint Paul's, but
it's usually invisible, being tucked in behind the panels at the back
of the stage.  For organ concerts, the whole thing is exposed.
The acoustics of Alice Tully are superb for chamber music and rather
unusual for organ music -- the hall is much less live with a much
shorter decay time than the average cathedral!  The result is that
pieces sound quite different, with less lingering sound after chords
are let up but with much more inner detail exposed to the ear.
Anthony Newman is doing a series there this Fall -- I can't wait!