Tag: organist

The diminishing legacy of pipe organs in Beacon, NY

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 →

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 →

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 →

#3 of 7 – BERTOLOZZI 1985 STATE DEPT CONCERT TOUR OF PORTUGAL

ÓBIDOS – July 20, 1985 Remember how I said southern Portuguese doesn’t sound like it reads? Óbidos is pronounced “HO-beech.” The “H” is a gutteral “CH sound as in “Bach.” Only the people who live in the area pronounce it this way; the attaché at the Embassy didn’t. When our English-speaking driver Carlos (KAR-loosh!) picked us up at the train station and… Read more →