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Download Download JOURNAL 0 F THE AMERICAN THEATRE ORGAN SOCIETY JULY | AUGUST 2012 -~ · . •··· ' , , , ' ' ..••. •. .•. • ..' ·· ·•·•·4- ..., , ' ········I ··• ·I ·I· ·I ··I I ~· ....• ·o.·e· . • ••••••• • •• ,, /. ,. ,; - ,~,. , . ' . / ,. • : '! .• J ~ :·.: ' . CLIFF HIPKINS KEN CROME WALKER TECHNICAL COMPANY ROB RICHARDS RESIDENCE ORGAN CONSOLE CONTROL SYSTEM & VOICES TONAL CONSULTANT 5M/ /JD RANK fl/;e1 WALJ<ER. Digital UNIT0R.CHESTRA ;· ,.,: ~I. • .. THEATRE ORGAN JULY | AUGUST 2012 Volume 54 | Number 4 FEATURES Radio City Music Hall 12 Gala: The Rest of the Story The Society of Theatre 16 Organists Technical 20 Experience Taylor Trimby’s Virtual 24 Wurlitzer/Marr & Colton The Best Show in 29 Las Vegas Yes Virginia, Young 38 Kids Can Like the Theatre Organ The Virginia 46 Theatre DEPARTMENTS 3 Vox Humana 4 President’s Message 6 News & Notes 10 Letters 11 Vox Pops Phil Maloof at his Roxy Kimball console (Photographs ©2012 Kim Cochrane, DesertSpiritPhotography.com) 48 For the Records 50 Chapter News On the Cover: The Roxy builders plate was somewhat more ornate 60 Around the Circuit on this unique console than what was typical of Kimball (Photographs ©2012 Kim Cochrane, DesertSpiritPhotography.com) 64 Closing Chord THEATRE ORGAN (ISSN 0040-5531) is published bimonthly by the American Theatre Organ 68 Meeting Minutes Society, Inc., 7800 Laguna Vega Drive, Elk Grove, California 95758. 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The more we have launch in this issue. instrument that relies on a computer, to choose from, the better our coverage The topic is virtual and digital theatre and a sound engine and samples (such will be. Contact the editors (editor@atos. organs. For several years, ATOS has had as products from Artisan, Hauptwerk, org) and we’ll tell you the best way to get the E-Tones special-interest group and Miditzer, jOrgan, etc.). We’ll refer to them to us. We need them as soon as you their excellent newsletter. That made the former as “digital” and the latter as get home from the convention, since our sense, because for many, many years, “virtual” even though at their core, there’s deadlines are very tight for the issue. electronic organs weren’t believable as a great deal of overlap. As has been our Keep in touch. theatre organs. Oh, some of them were practice in Around the Circuit for some —Don Feely quite good, but they weren’t going to fool time, we’ll call pipe organs that have a —Mike Bryant anyone. That “believability gap” has significant amount of digital tonal sources narrowed so much over the years that we “hybrid” instruments. can’t make such a blanket statement any We want to recognize Bill Van Lenten longer. for his role in bringing this series to In the past, we’ve run articles about life. Bill contacted us some time back incorporating MIDI and building a virtual with the idea, and he has lined up most theatre organ on a budget, and received of the authors. Our first article is about favorable comments when we’ve done a pretty straightforward “right out of it; we’ve reviewed CDs recorded on the box” virtual instrument controlled digital and virtual organs; we now accept by a very nicely re-purposed Marr & entries for the Young Theatre Organist Colton console. The next article in the competition recorded on digital/virtual series (September/October) features an organs; and we’ve always acknowledged instrument at the other end of the scale, the roles that digital voices play in with multiple sample sets (voicings augmenting pipe organs—such as a selectable on the fly!) and a custom Ken 32' or 16' extension or a sampled tuned Crome console. Beyond that, we’ll fill in percussion when there isn’t space in the the wide gulf between the two. chamber for the real thing. We’d also like to call your attention In short, digital/virtual instruments are to the article about the organ program here to stay, and some might argue that at Roosevelt High School in Hyde Park, they are more likely to achieve success in New York. Without a digital organ, that expanding the reach of the theatre organ program simply could not exist, nor would art form than the real thing, if for no other other programs around the world that rely reason than (wait for it…) there may soon on the portability of digital instruments to be more of them around than the real pipe “take the music to the people.” jobs.
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