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Meet Milldred Allexander ~ Vila Video Tape Meet Milldred Allexander ~ Vila Video Tape The announcement that Mildred drunks and organ fans. "They don't. She's the first one." Alexander's methods of learning to "Sir, we're closing now." "Her name?" play the organ are now available on "But I just returned from overseas, "I dunno - Mildred something. video tape comes as no surprise to and I haven't heard music like this She's new here. Been playing about a those who have observed her remark­ since before the war." week - and she'll keep it up all able career, which is divided among The chief usher was not unsympa­ night." teaching, philosophy, writing, com­ thetic. "You're not the first one to I looked at that lovely mop of au­ posing and concert engagements. It is linger. In fact there's someone down burn hair and the spiked heels as my one of the most fascinating success here nearly every night - with their ears soaked up the music. The gal un­ stories, and one which validates the ears wide open.'' dulated slightly as she played. I never musical scene in the USA in recent "Who is the organist? I didn't saw her face. She was unaware of a years. Millie has been in the vanguard know the Hall presented gal organ­ worshiper across the expanse of the of American musicality since her ear­ ists." orchestra pit. The usher glanced at his liest days, and she couldn't have been more than three years old when she first picked up finger exercises she heard her older sister playing, and plunked them out with great accuracy on the family piano. That was in Dur­ ham, North Carolina, Millie's home town. This writer's first encounter with the Alexander magic came about by happenstance. He had just returned from living for many years in Europe, and wanted to catch up on the current American scene. As his port of entry was New York, what better cross sec­ tion than the Radio City Music Hall? He caught the last showing of a for­ gettable movie, and then it happened. The little curtain which then masked the organ console opened and the the­ atre was flooded with organ music for exiting patrons. The organist was a girl and she was pedalling with spiked heels! I edged down to the wide or­ chestra pit and simply gaped; no the­ atre in the USA had featured an organ "march out" for many years. I soon caught the attention of the chief usher, an elderly man whose attention at that time was focused on clearing the auditorium of stragglers, sleepers, JULY/AUGUST 1983 watch. Sadly, I left, but with the lift was proper . So were the instruments to get adequate instruction. Mildred only good organ sounds can generate. they played. When Mildred tried was well aware of this; on her numer­ That was my first sampling of the some of their tunes on her church or­ ous Hammond demo concerts she Alexander styling and it made a per­ gan, the results were far from satisfy­ was approached many times by peo­ manent impression, yet I didn't learn ing. ple asking for instruction. She ex­ the full name of the organist until ten She asked her teacher about the amined the teaching material then years later. But we are getting ahead great difference, and was told in available. Most was warmed-over of our story, so back to Mildred, the scornful tones that those people courses by pianists and pipe organ­ child, in Durham, North Carolina, a played on those god-awful theatre or­ ists, and much of it was over the heads town remembered largely for that gans, and that their music was an and abilities of home organ pur­ daring (for that time) billboard pic­ abomination. chasers, or simply inadequate. Mil­ turing a very complete bull and plug­ She lost no time in tracking down dred recalled the difficulty she had in ging Bull Durham ''pipe terbacky.'' one of those "abominations." It was her early years obtaining organ in­ The trademark caused a furor among during the '30s when many theatres struction, not to mention the narrow '20s bluenoses. No matter, tobacco sold their unused organs to churches. range of that instruction when avail­ country survived, and one happy by­ One was located in the recreation hall able. product was Mildred. of a Durham church, a sweet little Why not a practical course which At the age of 12 she made her piano two-manual Wurlitzer graduated cum would instruct beginners, intermedi­ concert debut before an admiring au­ laude from a movie house which no ates and advanced students and at the dience of Durham parents. During longer needed it since the installation same time maintain a high interest the same year she discovered another of "Photo-phone" - "talkies," that level? A course based on her experi­ musical wonder - an organ in a is. ence, with easy-to-understand in­ church. This little wheezer had to be It wasn't long before Mildred was struction books plus a network of her dream instrument, so she switched broadcasting the Wurlitzer over teaching studios staffed by instruc­ her studies to classical organ. Before WDNC, CBS radio outlet in Dur­ tors well-versed in the Alexander ac­ long she was an accomplished church ham. She was hired sight unseen, cumulation of music styling started to organist, capable of belting out through an audition record. She take shape in her mind. The course hymns, spirituals and a few pieces of didn't dare approach the manager in would eliminate most of the rigid and classical organ literature. person because she knew he would tedious formalities connected in times She began to feel that she had not hire a child! past with organ instruction. Instead, learned all she could in the old home She graduated from high school at her courses would follow an informal town - but not quite. 15 and was immediately hired by the approach. Emphasis was put on the On the radio and on records she station as musical director. On learn­ ease of playing organ, be it a parlor was hearing a quite different type of ing that Duke University had a pop spinet or a four-manual giant. organ music. Broadcasts by names organ course, she enrolled, but also Mildred had always kept notes con­ such as Jesse Crawford, Eddie Dun­ continued her classical studies. Why cerning her observations, impres­ stedter and Ann Leaf were brought to was the opportunity to learn to play sions, shortcuts, musical values and Durham by network radio. The music the organ so rare? Mildred vowed that talent quotients of interested parties. they played from studios far from one day she would do something She outlined her courses to fill several Durham was very different from about it. short volumes, designed to accommo­ what young Mildred had been taught Then the "big time" called and date the students' levels of accom­ Mildred moved to New York. Long plishment. Then to find a publisher "Omigawd, it's the President!" cries an excited Millie before that historic move she had dis­ who could be convinced of the value as she rallies the troops to greet a presidential look ­ alike during a Home Organ Festival concert . The lady covered the pioneer electric organ, the of her approach. There were then on obliged with a majestic "Hail to the Chief." Hammond. It would change her life. the market a number of hastily assem­ (Stardust Photo Service) In New York, she scored, arranged, bled, simplistic books on how to play conducted, played and was musical the organ, but they rarely went much director for many network TV shows. beyond a rudimentary version of Then Mildred's artistry came to the "Long, Long Ago" and similar easy attention of the Hammond Organ ones. Mildred was determined that Company and an association started her courses would not be self-limiting which would benefit both artist and just to show fast progress. After manufacturer over a period of many many disappointments she located years. The Hammond is still her fa­ the right publisher, Charles Hansen vorite electric organ, although it has Publications, Inc. changed considerably over the years, One of Mildred Alexander's most discarding Laurens Hammond's orig­ notable traits is her ability to establish inal tone wheel generating system for rapport with an audience immediate­ solid-state oscillators. ly. She soon has each individual feel­ The electric, and later the electron­ ing as though she is addressing him ic, organ made the instrument avail­ personally - and she is. Two of the able for home use. And the initial reasons she has been able to establish price was right - $1,250.00. Many arrangements with nearly six hundred people bought them but were unable music studios across the country to THEATRE ORGAN JULY/ AUGUST 1983 of these often very commercial events, it's Millie. She provides the human touch. Millie's instruction in person is so much in demand that she often ar­ ranges for some classes to be held after the "extravaganza," holding the dedicated students in her spell usually for a one-extra-day cram ses­ sion. She calls such extensions "hap­ penings" but they are actually well­ planned, intensive learning sessions, attended mostly by advanced students of the Method, or those who simply want to bask longer in the Alexander charisma. She also runs teacher qual­ ification exams during these extra days. Not all who try pass the tests; Millie can be an exacting taskmaster Millie with Leroy Davidson.
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