The wedge finally a spiritied and fiery performance you can watch

#1

Well my music post was shunted off the page by all the post-election talk, so one more time:

At LAST… a performance of the Wedge that does not drag, and is spirited and fiery! I could’ve wished for a few more manual changes, but he gets the crucial fireworks in the development section of the monster (sonata allegro form!) fugue right! As I said in Thrice Great Hermetica and the Janus Age, the nickname “wedge” is NOT appropriate to the fugue, but typical of the tendency to forget the role of Affektenlehre in Bach’s works…a more appropriate nickname would be “St. Michael’s Arrows and the Serpent’s coils…” This is a good performance because you can watch the monster being played by an organist who is “into” the piece…

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#2

Enjoyed watching/listening to this, and the 4-way coordination I can well relate to. What I can’t relate to is sitting on a wooden stool! Remember, I started playing drum set after a car accident in which I fractured my pelvis multiple times lol Just watching this great performance makes my lower back feel ‘sensitive’…thank goodness for padded drum stools (I have had the same one for 30+ years now)! Oh, and yes, given how far the performer needs to move as he plays the foot pedals especially, I can understand the need for the stool. Still hurts my thinking hahahahahaha :slight_smile:

#3

OK…I know I’m not going to turn you into a drum solo afficiando Joseph, but were I to try, I might start with Mr Terry Bozio, featured in this short live piece. I’m sure you can clearly both see and hear that this is not a ‘simple’ drum set…all components are tuned, and I have seen performances in Melbourne at a drum festival, where Terry played various composed pieces, a string quartet by Mozart, and ‘Ionization’, by Edgar Varese, on a drum set that had a full 7 octives of both tuned drums and cymbals! Amazing to hear for the first time. It might be an acquired taste - the idea of all the ‘long tones’ being produced by multiple short strikes, or rolls - but it does have a more musical flavour to it, IMO, than mere jungle drums. :slight_smile:

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#4

…no one ever said it was easy!

#5

I love it when people “feel” the music they are playing!! :boom: