1993 C.B. Fisk Organ - Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas, Texas

Brent Johnson talks with Bradley Welch, Organist of the Dallas Symphony, about the Lay Family Organ installed in the McDermott Concert Hall in the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, Texas. This is C.B. Fisk Opus 100, completed in 1993. This organ will be featured in the 2019 OHS Convention.
Specification of the organ: www.cbfisk.com/instruments/opu...
Register for the 2019 OHS Convention: organhistoricalsociety.org/ev...
Organ Historical Society website: organhistoricalsociety.org/
Meyerson website: meyerson.dallasculture.org/
Builder's website: www.cbfisk.com/
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[@speedstick77]

The delighted grin on the organist's face says it all.

[@jdbreaux8080]

Oh yeah. He's lit!

[@michaelmiller1215]

I have heard Bradley play twice at my Alma Mater, Emory & Henry College in Virginia. He is amazing!

[@jdbreaux8080]

Now in Austin, I miss "The Mort" six blocks from my Dallas home as I watched it being built. I've heard nothing, NOTHING better. Also thanks to Mary Preston. You both rock my world!

[@camilloflaim8933]

Very nice the sound of Principal.

[@rowanlidbury]

Oh we need a Fisk in the UK.

[@jjtint]

Mary Preston was fantastic on this organ

[@markbeggs2256]

Bradley is the absolute best! You should have heard him last night at the DSO Christmas Pops Concert . . . par excellence.

[@personsofinterest2342]

I wasn't ready for it to end. Love the sound of a pipe organ. Thank you.

[@phillipbaggio7915]

The Franck Final in B-flat is probably my favorite pieces of organ literature. Seldom played, but great every time.

[@leonardeast3389]

@@phillipbaggio7915 Thanks so much for identifying that piece! It's a shame we only got to hear the ending.

[@jdbreaux8080]

@@leonardeast3389 Encore!

[@Mrsnichols1965]

Just as a reference, three feet of that rail is about 110lbs, which gives an idea how much is on each chest.

[@raymondmoderski3216]

Wow great instrument and magnificent playing Bradley! Thank you.

[@KSL1972LLC]

Great presentation and nice to get a chance to hear the Resonance division by itself. Still is funny to hear how when close to the organ, it sounds like being stuck in a traffic jam of honking cars (but sounds majestic out in the venue)

[@garysmith8455]

William and Joshua from Czelusniak et. Dugal Inc. are at the convention and I am sure have enjoyed the concert by Mr. Bradley Welch TODAY, others of us are at the shop keeping the organ rebuild/restoration projects running along smoothly (O: Enjoy the rest of the OHS convention guys! (O:

[@Pipe-organ-recordings]

Great job guys. You have come a long way in lighting, mic ing. Keep up the great work!!!

[@petehelme7714]

agreed, the mics picked up the low pedal tones quite well at 10:52 and 20:35 if you have capable headphones or subwoofer you can actually feel them. :)

[@MrEd2466]

Great Video, Looking forward to her you at Ocean Grove playing the GREAT HOPE JONES ORGAN !!!!!

[@bobh5087]

Great demo. Thanks. 👍 ❤️

[@brandonbell5066]

I’ve been waiting for this video for my whole lifeeeeeee.

[@marioribeirodeazevedoneto311]

I like very much deste programa. Cada órgão de tubos é mais fantático que o outro. Congratulation, parabéns! Brazil!

[@SingerGeneLeonard]

I sat right under the metal ‘32 in the DSC.

[@evoandy]

I was playing The Planets at the Meyerson center with the UT symphony when I was in undergrad when I first heard this instrument. it startled me a great deal because it felt like the earth shifted when the organ first entered. I had entirely forgotten there was even an organ in The Planets because I had only played it with the comparatively wheezy organ in the hall at UT

[@judithminzer8097]

Loved the teaser: Eugene Gigout’s Grand Choeur Dialogue!!!

[@billraty14]

The many D.C. power supplies are needed for the stop action. It takes quite a bit of current to drive a slider board back and forth across a windchest.

[@orgue3461]

Good job, especially given the time pressure! Thanks for this one - cool Fisk, & I reckon it's a good match with the fabulous BW, no? Keep it up!

[@michaelhodge9902]

Do a video about the segrestrom center for the arts organ

[@ZestyLemonBoi]

Блестящий!

[@phillipbaggio7915]

So that I understand this organ a bit more, the Resonance division is electric-action but the pedal is not. Also, when looking at the specs, I see the couplers labeled "...to Resonance" and "... to Great". What are the differences between the two sets? Finally, how much of the organ does the General Tremulant affect?

[@ksbear2]

The link for the organ specification at the CB Fisk site is not correct. It is now: cbfisk.com/opus/opus-100/

[@theoptimisticmetalhead7787]

Any chance y'all are gonna check out the Fisk organ in Caruth Auditorium at SMU in Dallas?

[@MrKmoconne]

I would have liked to see how they hid the Untersatz mentioned at 10:45.

[@chrisandhisdrums4215]

its on the side towards the back in both sides

[@MrKmoconne]

@@chrisandhisdrums4215 I think I see them now, highlighted with blue light in the picture. Thank you.

[@chrisandhisdrums4215]

You are very welcome I was there to see Thomas Ospital @@MrKmoconne

[@androidbox3204]

What cameras do you shoot with?

[@cmusicmanx]

What piece is he playing at 7:33??

[@OrganMediaFoundation]

That would be Kommst du nun, Jesu, vom Himmel herunter, BWV 650 by Johann Sebastian Bach ks.imslp.net/files/imglnks/usimg/2/2a/IMSLP129113-WIMA.153c-Bach_Choral_BWV650.pdf

[@bridgediscovery1011]

What 8s the song playing at the end ??

[@richardharrold9736]

César Franck Final.

[@juliancalvin9040]

I swear I've heard the piece starting at 9:40, but I cannot for the life of me remember what it is. Does anyone know?

[@chrisandhisdrums4215]

Grand Choer Dialogue by Gigout

[@colinandpeter]

Your microphones are picking up the 32’ pedal stops just fine my speakers and amp are reproducing with wall shaking excellence

[@jimsummers9704]

Lay family......as in Frito Lay..!

[@shawnhampton8503]

Exactly. Lay's Potato Chips. Based in Dallas.

[@davideanes3425]

The pipes have Funyuns in them

[@bridgediscovery1011]

What is a trommeten

[@richardharrold9736]

Trumpet in a Nordic language, I think. German is Trompet.

[@HenrikBergpianorganist]

@@richardharrold9736 Nope, it's old German. Up north we say trumpet or trompet. Modern German is Trompete.

[@SAMSON12321]

For those LOW NOTES a better microphone is needed as it could barely reproduce/capture those low frequencies. I have really good headphones that go down to 5Hz and I could barely hear those low notes

SAMSON12321 - Probably KZbin limitation.

[@arionthedeer7372]

It was still pretty good. It’s better than not hearing it at all, which is something they pointed out. Stop it lol

[@raymondbeecroft4209]

Too much talking .

[@timdaugherty5921]

no way hes married to a woman

[@parrotlover9035]

Whatever. He's taken, so back off :) Lucky husband or wife.

[@davef.2811]

His skill as an organist doesn't impose boundaries.

[@fluteceleste]

positively WRONG. Bradley is married to Kara Kirkendoll Welch, a flutist in the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Adjunct Professor of Flute at Southern Methodist University. www.bradleyhunterwelch.com/performance-biography

[@rdub4218]

It shouldn't matter whether he's married to a woman or a man. It's rude of you to speculate and cast your narrow-minded stereotypes onto someone because you're either jealous of them or your bigoted worldview doesn't allow for variations in talents and skillsets across the gender spectrum. I'm sure that he, his wife, and their family, friends and fans will be just fine carrying out their beautification of this world without paying any attention to your sad ignorance. Hopefully you'll grow out of it someday and learn to appreciate the worth and value of every human being whether or not they conform to your expectations.

[@user-tn4nr5hm6u]

I think you are saying this, Tim, because of his shoes. Keep in mind, playing organpedals involve an elaborate technique of alternating heel and toe. So the shoes might look a little feminine, rest assured it´s about technique.