Cathedral of St. John the Divine in 1927 with sound
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- Опубліковано 28 лют 2020
- Excerpts from the service for the groundbreaking for the north transept of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York held December 5, 1927. The filmed excerpts feature the great organ as originally built by Ernest M. Skinner in 1911. The organist is not known, but could be Miles Farrow who was organist during this time.
INDEX
Prelude - 0:19
Opening Hymn - 1:45
Doxology - 3:20
Postlude - 4:22
Fox Movietone News Outtakes from the Moving Image Resource Collection at the University of South Carolina - mirc.sc.edu
Wow. Skinner built superlative instruments. Always a treat to hear an original example. These vintage clips golden.
So true! And I think we are fortunate today that money was tight in the early 1950s,
and G. Donald Harrison couldn't throw out as much of the organ as he might have liked! Just my opinion, of course.
1927 was the year of the first “talkie” movie. It is amazing that those same resources were used to record this service!
Awesome in many ways
This is just amazing. The organ is spectacular. The reredos now being removed, the current configuration is much more inspiring with a full uninterrupted view of the ambulatory behind the great Table of the Lord. What an wonderful video to share. EM Skinner knew what he was doing. What a gem!
Love the old altar!!!
O yes! Why they destroyed the marvellous originally altar??
@@canticus7068 They removed it because they wanted something more bigger and better but somehow that didn't go to plan also they wanted more space.
Why they took it down?
AT THE END THE ORGAN SOUND IS TRULY PARAMOUNT.-
Great to hear it. Technically would be Skinner Organ Company.
Samuel Nelson Not when this Organ was built. The company name didn’t change until 1919 when Arthur Hudson Marks bought the company and reorganize it into the Skinner Organ Company.
What a treat it was to hear this magnificent instrument and see footage that is nearly 100 years old. Any idea what text they were using with Regent Square?
This was recorded in December so it's probably Angels from the Realms of Glory.
@@whs1325 The Text is "Christ is made the sure foundation" set to Regent Square.
This is 27 years before the 1954 AS rebuild by GDH.
The three of these 1920s era videos Ive watched seem like the sheer sound level and dynamics of the organ and voices were overmodulating the mic and recording equipment leading to distortion big time, but it was a case of they recorded and had to develop the film and then discover the sound was terrible and no do-over.
I remember doing audio tape casettes years ago and if the sound level needle hit the "red zone" on the sound level meter on newer/better devices the recording would come out sounding like it was dragged over a gravel road. I have cassette tapes from the 1970s and 1980s I transferred to digital mp3, some were very bad with bleed-thru from the opposide side of the tape being heard faintly in reverse, and some sounding "rocky" and noisy, so maybe some of the distortion in these videos is from age of the film.
The nave was not built
When Bishop Manning was in office