The virtual world has opened new possibilities for disseminating music both new and historic. This 2020 virtual concert, created in collaboration with The Friends of the Erben Organ and described in this article allowed for a...
moreThe virtual world has opened new possibilities for disseminating music both new and historic. This 2020 virtual concert, created in collaboration with The Friends of the Erben Organ and described in this article allowed for a wide-ranging presentation about the harmonium and reed organ and its relationship to the pipe organ. In addition to introducing music world-wide that was written for important restored antique instruments, the virtual format allowed for technological/cultural narrative analysis via the insertion of spoken clips. Functioning like program notes of old, the extensive narrative clips do not disturb the flow of the concert because they can be electively clicked on by the viewer at any time. The concert featured music for a 1903 Mustel Art Harmonium, a Mason & Hamlin Liszt Organ from 1887, a 1925 portable preacher's organ and the historic Erben Organ. Composers included Kodaly, Bizet, Widor, Karg-Elert, Harry T. Burleigh, George Templeton Strong, Dudley Buck and Carson Cooman.
