Viva Brighton Issue #38 April 2016

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AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE by HENRIK IBSEN in a version by CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON Hugh Bonneville returns to Chichester in Ibsen’s thrilling play directed by Howard Davies £ TICKETS FROM 22 APRIL - 21 MAY 01243 781312 cft.org.uk
music .................................... The Secret Life of Organs James McVinnie, sonic explorer Organists are often jokingly referred to as megalomaniacs, because they’re in charge of this huge volume of sound. It’s a very solitary instrument, in a positive sense. You have ultimate control and... it’s huge fun. It’s the sheer scale, the sense of variety and delicacy and power at your fingertips. It’s pretty hard, as instruments go. It’s probably the hardest instrument, just because you’ve got to coordinate your feet. People often say ‘how do pianists learn to play with both hands?’ You know, with the organ you’re playing at least a quarter, if not more, of the music with your feet as well, so you have to have total independence of limbs, basically. When I worked at Westminster Abbey, my colleagues and I had to practice the organ at night, because it’s open for tourists during the day... so you kind of learn to have slightly nocturnal practicing habits. And you get to be in these amazing spaces after hours, which is quite thrilling as well. The organ was the most advanced piece of machinery before the industrial revolution, along with the clock. When the Victorians came along, and also the equivalent engineers in Europe, they extended and enlarged the instrument so that they’d be able to play music that would rival the symphony orchestra. The piano and violin were domestic instruments in the 19th century, hugely popular, basically every house would have a piano. The organ, traditionally, would be confined to church, and then, in the 19th century, big civic places like town halls. Those organs were designed to bring orchestral music to the masses as well. But people don’t have organs at home really, unless they have lots of money and space. So yeah, there is a huge wealth of great music for the organ, but just proportionally for the instrument, there’s less of it. In the last ten years, or last five years really, I’ve noticed that there’s been a huge upsurge in interest in the organ by composers from a classical music background who are not necessarily from the church music world, and also people like Tom Jenkinson, who’s better known as Squarepusher, who’s very much not from the classical music tradition. Tom is someone with a huge cult following in electronic music, but he happens to have had a lifelong love of the organ as an instrument, and has always wanted to write organ music, so this is a kind of consummation of that. I think people associate the organ with predominantly church services and hymns and, you know, music which maybe isn’t terribly inspiring, and perhaps goes hand in hand with being played badly by someone who doesn’t really know what they’re doing… [but] it’s an amazing instrument, with huge resources and huge scope for exploring sonic possibilities, and it’s interesting that it’s captured the imagination of so many people from non-classical music fields. As told to Steve Ramsey The Secret Life of Organs features James McVinnie playing music by Philip Glass and Tom Jenkinson, and a set by Australian improvisers The Necks. Fri 8th <strong>April</strong>, Sussex University Meeting House, 7.30pm Photo © Magnús Andersen ....45....
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