Here’s a good article about the diminishing legacy of pipe organs in Beacon, NY as well as the few that are actively being maintained. https://highlandscurrent.org/2024/08/30/free-pipe-organ/ Photo of Joseph Bertolozzi by Brian Cronin for the Highlands Current. Here are a couple informal demonstrations: Recessional from my “Suite for a Wedding” and (on the pedals) an excerpt of the hymn “Holy, Holy,… Read more →
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The Wolfman, Halloween…and Joseph Bertolozzi!
This Halloween I’ll be playing the organ and providing other chilling sound effects for this immersive showing of Lon Chaney Jr’s classic 1941 film “The Wolfman“, Oct 29 & 30 at The Chapel Restoration in Cold Spring, NY. Watch out for creepy puppets and wolfmen lurking about! Tix info below.#horror_movie, #horrormoviefan, #hudsonvalley, #hudsonvalleyevents, #coldspringny https://www.eventbrite.com/…/the-wolfman- oct-29th-at… Read more →
Bertolozzi in Montreal…again
My Tarantella for organ pedal solo was performed by Yves-G. Préfontaine May 7th, 2021 at the Sanctuaire Marie-Reine-des-Coeurs in Montreal. Read more →
PLAYING THE WORLD’S LARGEST PIPE ORGAN
Joseph Bertolozzi had the singular experience of playing the great pipe organ at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, NJ, the largest pipe organ in the world. Yes, that’s seven keyboards! Thanks to Nathan Bryson, Curator of Organs and Scott D Banks, Event Coordinator. Powerful, yes; smooth, yes; versatile, yes. But there was an unexpected phenomenon (N.B. this gets pretty technical, so… Read more →
TM5TET in California
Left Edge Percussion, under the direction of Terry Longshore, continues its tour of the west coast with a performance of the Tower Music Percussion 5tet, Sunday May 5, 7pm at Trinity Alps Performing Arts Center, 101 Arbuckle Court, Weaverville, CA. Read more →
Premiere of “Partita on ‘O Lumen Ecclesiae'” for organ
If you are in Houston, Texas on Feb 25, you can catch the premiere of my latest non-percussion composition: “Partita on ‘O Lumen Ecclesiae’” for organ. The concert will be performed by Dr. Anna Marie Flushce, O.P. at St. Justin Martyr R.C. Church Ashford Point Houston, TX Feb 25, 2017 7pm No tix required, and also on the program are… Read more →
#7 of 7 – BERTOLOZZI 1985 STATE DEPT CONCERT TOUR OF PORTUGAL
CALDAS DA SAÚDA- July 27, 1985 I closed out my concert tour with a performance in the church at the Instituto Nun’Alvres, Caldas da Saúda (Santo Tirso), a Jesuit secondary school in a spa town. There actually had been another planned concert in between Porto and this one to be held in Braga. The visual effect of the double organs at Braga… Read more →
#6 of 7 – BERTOLOZZI 1985 STATE DEPT CONCERT TOUR OF PORTUGAL
PORTO – July 26, 1985 Porto (or Oporto in English) has an important organ in its cathedral. I was looking forward to this concert. However upon arrival at the consulate, I was told by Teresa the cultural attaché (also known as “Beluca”), that I’d be playing at a modern church with a modern organ. Not one of those old things.… Read more →
#5 of 7 – BERTOLOZZI 1985 STATE DEPT CONCERT TOUR OF PORTUGAL
ÉVORA – July 23, 1985 (Part II) There is a another organ in the Cathedral up over the Gospel side of the altar (on the left as you look at the altar). The architecture of the altar area is in a baroque style quite different from the nave and certainly the outside, which dates back to the 11th-12th century. The Gospel Organ was built… Read more →
#4 of 7 – BERTOLOZZI 1985 STATE DEPT CONCERT TOUR OF PORTUGAL
ÉVORA – July 23, 1985 (Part I) At the university town of Évora, I encountered an instrument largely untouched since its installation, c. 1562 by Heitor Lobo. Pasquale Caetano Oldovini added the fashionable horizontal trumpet in 1772 and Flentrop did a restoration in 1967. This is one of the oldest extant playable organs in the world. The Sé (or cathedral) of… Read more →