Join: Aug 30, 2006
Name: gromitbilly
Gender: Male
Location: US
Videos Watched: 508
Subscribers: 4
Channel Views: 206
Books: Berlin Stories - Christopher Isherwood; Stephen Saylor's Roma Sub Rosa series; James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux series.
Movies: Auntie Mame, Wizard of Oz, A Room With A View, A Christmas Story, Little Britain, I Love Lucy.
Music: French and German Romantic organ; Bach organ; 60's - 70's and 80's rock/pop/disco; Loreena McKennitt; Welsh, Irish, English and old time American folk and dance music.
Hobbies: Pipe organs, the Wanamaker Organ, Grande Orgue - St. Sulpice, Paris, roller coasters, amusement parks, streetcars-subways-interurbans-metros, languages, travel, people and places, reading.
Videos (6)
Wanamaker Organ - Bach Fugue in A minor
- Length: 0:41
- Rating Average: 5.00 from 2 people
- View Count: 1262' favoriteCount='3
- Author: gromitbilly
Tags: Bach Colin Fugue Howland Macy's minor Organ Philadelphia pipe Wanamaker
(Short!) extract of Bach's Fugue in A minor BWV 543 played by Colin Howland on the Wanamaker Organ, Macy's Philadelphia.
Wanamaker Organ Day 2008 - Wm. Tell Overture
- Length: 1:21
- Rating Average: 5.00 from 5 people
- View Count: 1437' favoriteCount='2
- Author: gromitbilly
Tags: Conte Day Howland Lucente Organ Philadelphia pipe Quartet Stairs Wanamaker
Extract of the Philadelphia Organ Quartet playing the William Tell Overture. Michael Stairs, Rudy Lucente and Colin Howland play the Allen digitals, Peter Conte plays the mighty Wanamaker.
Wanamaker Organ Day 2008 - Star Wars Theme
- Length: 1:39
- Rating Average: 4.70 from 10 people
- View Count: 2785' favoriteCount='11
- Author: gromitbilly
Tags: Colin Day Howland Organ Philadelphia pipe Wanamaker
Extract of the Star Wars Theme played by Colin Howland at Wanamaker Organ Day 2008, Macy's Philadelphia.
Wanamaker Organ - Franck Chorale #1 (Extract 2)
- Length: 1:34
- Rating Average: 5.00 from 3 people
- View Count: 600' favoriteCount='2
- Author: gromitbilly
Tags: Chorale Conte Franck organ Peter Philadelphia pipe Richard Wanamaker
Extract #2 of Franck's Chorale No. 1 in E major played by Peter Conte.
Wanamaker Organ - Franck Chorale #1 (Extract 1)
- Length: 2:8
- Rating Average: 4.75 from 4 people
- View Count: 851' favoriteCount='5
- Author: gromitbilly
Tags: Chorale Conte Franck organ Peter Philadelphia pipe Richard Wanamaker
Extract #1 of Franck's Chorale No. 1 in E major played by Peter Conte.
Favorites (42)
Vierne, Adagio de la 3ème Symphonie
- Length: 8:26
- Rating Average: 5.00 from 6 people
- View Count: 351' favoriteCount='2
- Author: julorg
Tags: adagio Cavaillé-coll organ orgel orgue symphonie vierne
Louis Vierne, Symphonie n°3 III - Adagio Julien Girard au GO Cavaillé-Coll de Notre-Dame d'Annonay, très bel instrument hélas en fin de vie, un projet de restauration est en cours... Vous excuserez les quelques bétises, j'ai fait ça pendant mes vacances là-bas, j'ai tenté de compenser en...
The Nu Tornados - Philadelphia, U.S.A (1958)
- Length: 2:6
- Rating Average: 5.00 from 2 people
- View Count: 470' favoriteCount='2
- Author: Jennyluvver
Tags: 1958 billboard Nu philadelphia pop Tornados u.s.a
Charted at #26 on Billboard Hot 100 in November 1958.
Organ Partita Sarabande and Stations of the Cross
- Length: 6:39
- Rating Average: n/a
- View Count: 774' favoriteCount='3
- Author: midnightpipes
Tags: 768 Bach classical Cross First gegrüsset Hohman Lutheran Lyons Midnight New of Organ Partita Pipes Sei Stations the York
Organist Frederick Hohman plays the ninth and tenth variations of the organ partita on the choral "Sei gegrüsset, Jesu gütig," S. 768, by Johann Sebastian Bach. The organ is the 1970 Schlicker organ, 2 manuals and pedal, 31 ranks, at the First Lutheran Church of Lyons, New York. The organ...
Barnstorm - Rocky Mountain Way [Midnight Special, 1973]
- Length: 5:21
- Rating Average: 4.95 from 84 people
- View Count: 26728' favoriteCount='266
- Author: owenpetard
Tags: Barnstorm Grace Joe Kenny Mountain Passarelli Rocky Vitale Walsh Way
Joe Walsh with his band, Barnstorm, performing Rocky Mountain Way, from the Midnight Special, 17 Aug 1973. This version doesn't contain Joe's usual use of the Talk Box. Introduced by Richard Pryor. Joe Walsh: Vocals/Guitar Kenny Passarelli: Bass Joe Vitale: Drums Rocky Grace: Piano Tom...
Pipe Organ Chartres Cathedral Duruflé (3)
- Length: 7:34
- Rating Average: 4.94 from 17 people
- View Count: 5171' favoriteCount='31
- Author: a55b47
Tags: Cathedral Chartres classical Duruflé France organ organo orgel orgue pipe Suite
Recorded in 1981 by Philippe Lefebvre, now one of the 3 titulaires @ Notre Dame of Paris. This Toccata from Maurice Duruflé's Suite, Opus 5, is fiendishly difficult to play (obviously). And if it's not played crisply & precisely, with great attention to tempo & registration, it can turn into a...
