Labdad:
No kidding? I didn’t look it up or anything - it’s what I imagined.
I agree with you about the piece of music. In 1997, I was walking around inside Bath Abbey , just after the organ had been rebuilt. They were testing it and the organist played T&F in Dm, presumably to put the organ through its paces. Hearing that was an amazing musical experience for me!
It was fairly awesome back in the 1970s. As I said to the guy in the piano shop last weekend, I was there once when the organist was playing Widor. The Tuba Mirabilis on that instrument should just have been called “Wrath of God” and be done with it.
Although :
More likely what I was hearing was the Trombone 16’ and Contra Posaune 32’… same comment though.
I can’t imagine him playing anything else.
NDP
September 30, 2011, 5:17am
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I’d be in if he’d close with “Green Onions” and for an encore do "Gimme Some Lovin’ ".
Nava
September 30, 2011, 8:30am
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Huh, I’d thought “baroque, if you have a proper organ that’s what you play on it”. I don’t imagine he’d stick to a single song, though: even if he stuck to the works of JSB, that alone is an enormous body of work.
I thought James Mason did a good job “pretending” to play the organ.
Doug_K
September 30, 2011, 4:14pm
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Yesterday I thought of 96 Tears, but saw that it had already been suggested. This morning it occurred to me that a good one would be: Skater’s Waltz
For some reason I’m picturing him playing Stayin’ Alive .
I think it would’ve been fun to hear him play Hoedown (even though the song hadn’t been written yet)
BMalion
September 30, 2011, 6:15pm
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What song was he playing in the silent version?
In the book, FWIW, the narrator observes him playing “solely on the black keys, which gave the music a Scotch character” - as pentatonics would.
Also FWIW, in the 1961 Ray Harryhausen version of Mysterious Island (which dovetails nicely with the Disney 20,000 Leagues, and features a Nautilus that looks a lot like Goff’s version from Disney), Herberet Lom as Captain Nemo also plays Toccata and Fugue in D Minor .
I doon’t know what people at the time played, but in 2010 a showing of the 1916 film featured an original score by Stephin Merritt.
I’ve got a copy of the film on tape, but I don’t recall what was played on the (pre-2010) video recording. I’ll have to have a look.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a 1916 American silent film directed by Stuart Paton. The film's storyline is based on the 1870 novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne. It also incorporates elements from Verne's 1875 novel The Mysterious Island.
On May 4, 2010, a new print of the film was shown accompanied by a live performance of an original score by Stephin Merritt at the Castro Theatre, as part of the San Francisco International Film Festival.
In 2016, the film was deeme...
http://www.sffs.org/content.aspx?catid=9&pageid=1537&TitleId=
Known mostly for concise, brainy pop songs, Stephin Merritt might not be an obvious choice for soundtrack-composer extraordinaire, usually the territory of folks who have a 10-minutes-plus song on every album, use a bow on their guitars, are...
The DVD release of the silent version has an orchestral score amnd piano score by Alexander Rannie and Brian Benison. It doesn’t mention any Bach in it:
http://www.silentera.com/video/twentyThousandLeaguesHV.html
Just for the record, Toccata and Fugue in D has been used in “horror” associations in:
The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao (during the destruction of Woldercan)
The Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565, is a piece of organ music written, according to its oldest extant sources, by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750). The piece opens with a toccata section, followed by a fugue that ends in a coda. Scholars differ as to when it was composed. It could have been as early as c. 1704. Alternatively, a date as late as the 1750s has been suggested. To a large extent, the piece conforms to the characteristics deemed typical of the north German organ school of the B...
The Black Cat (1934)
The Phantom of the Opera (1962)
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La Dolce Vita
http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/ladolcevita.php
An Episode of Supernatural has the Phantom of the Opera playing it
There have been many literary and dramatic works based on Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera, ranging from stage musicals to films to children's books. Some well known stage and screen adaptations of the novel are the 1925 film and the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical (see The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical)); Susan Kay's 1990 Phantom is one of the best known novels and includes in-depth study of the title character's life and experiences.
Finnish Symphonic metal band Nightwish c...
The Night Gallery episode Phantom of What Opera? has The Phantom playing the Toccata and Fugue:
http://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play?p=phantom%20of%20what%20opera&tnr=21&vid=1253069882036&l=275&turl=http%3A%2F%2Fts1.mm.bing.net%2Fvideos%2Fthumbnail.aspx%3Fq%3D1253069882036%26id%3D5e3fb3fbfb2332bf5843e1ed67e4c711%26bid%3DJtHWLs%252bamOW6Hg%26bn%3DThumb%26url%3Dhttp%253a%252f%252fwww.dailymotion.com%252fvideo%252fx7ivt6_ng-phantom-of-what-opera-vo_shortfilms&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymotion.com%2Fvideo%2Fx7ivt6_ng-phantom-of-what-opera-vo_shortfilms&sigr=12eo872gp&newfp=1&tit=ng+-+phantom+of+what+opera+(vo)
(I love, by the way, the fact that the actor playing the Phantom apparently can’t get his taper to extinguish. Lawrence of Arabia he ain’t)
