Rob Adlers
David Smits
Steve Cochrane
Leif Bloomquist
Stephane Vera
Aris Plampe
Jofus Smith
Steve Mann
Ryan Janzen
John Farah
Britton Vincent
David Carswell (Technical Director)
It's now been over a year since ORGANic Evolution 2 and we have begun preparations for the the third installment of our live showcase.
ORGANic Evolution III will celebrate the marriage of the old with the new, the traditional with the modern, the past with the future. Long before computers and synthesizers and electric guitars, the King of musical instruments was the Pipe Organ. This show is not about crowning a new King, but more, providing the King with a new wardrobe – providing the grand artist with a new pallet from which to create masterpieces for a new generation.
David Smits, Music Committee Chairman and Organist at St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church in Toronto, and Rob Adlers, musician and computer software analyst, have taken the classic pipe organ to a whole new level. With the help of Classic Organ Works, the link between this century-old Casavant organ console and the pipes has been updated with MIDI capability, which allows the organ to control and be controlled by MIDI capable instruments and computers. The duo has been testing this technology with various musical genres, including classical music, jazz, folk, contemporary and music from other cultures, including their own compositions and in May of 2007 premiered a number of new pieces of music composed specifically to showcase this technology and the grandeur of the pipes.
In the near future Smits and Adlers and a number of special guests, in collaboration with Classic Organ Works, will be presenting the next step, ORGANic Evolution III, a concert at St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church which will pick up where the earlier showcases left off. As Rob Adlers states, "David Smits and I wanted to show the congregation and other folks what the restoration and upgrade efforts to the Casavant organ at St. Andrews meant. There was a lot of new technology that had never been showcased, and the organ really has a new life, with new possibilities. From that show and demonstration, we're now taking forward those promises and wish to apply them in a proper performance. The most interesting realization was that even with all the automation and technology, live performance is still key to a successful show. You can not take away the organist."
This concert is a "must see" for anyone who is interested in preserving the pipe organ and in how to make the pipe organ relevant and exciting for the next generation.
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