Howard Goodall's Organ Works-
"The Life and Times
of the King of Instruments"
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Videocassette
4-part series totaling 95min
Part #031-1002
Price: $19.95
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Written and presented by Howard Goodall
Producer: Paul Sommers, Director: Rupert Edwards, 1996
This informative, yet highly
entertaining insight into the historic and bizarre world of the
organ is presented by Howard Goodall, composer for television and stage.
His personal odyssey traces the birth of the traditional pipe organ and
includes spectacular footage of some of the finest organs
in Europe and the USA. The program goes on to explain how the organ moved
into the secular world, reinventing itself time and again. It follows
the Hammond organ into jazz, blues and rock, the Wurlitzer into cinemas
and dance halls, and the electronic keyboard into a world market. Finally
it arrives at the pipeless Allen digital organ, and asks whether the pipe
organ has met its match at last.
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