Organ, The: Simon Preston at the Organ of Westminster Abbey

Synopsis: WE MAKE MUSIC is a series of films made in the 1960s for the study of music. Devoted to the study of a single instruments and its family, each film is presented by an artist chosen for excellence as a performer and teacher.
Simon Preston was sub-organist at Westminster Abbey in 1965. He speaks of the history and construction of the Abbey’s Harrison organ, explaining the how sound is generated from pipes and how a single person can master over six thousand speaking pipes. Musical extracts include works by Mozart and Purcell. Preston then visits the organ builders to see pipes being manufactured and ‘voiced’. At the Abbey he shows the five separate organs (the Great, the Swell, the Choir, the Solo and the Pedal) and demonstrates the instruments in Liszt’s prelude on the letter B,A,C,H.
Series: We Make Music, Series
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video; Videocassette. VHS. col. 39 min.
Year of production: 1965
Availability: Sale; 1996 sale: £9.95 (+p&p)
Notes: Released for sale on video 1996.
Subjects: Music
Keywords: musical instruments; organs - musical instruments; Westminster Abbey

Name: Educational Foundation for Visual Aids
Notes: 2006 - titles now possibly in the Elsbury Images archive collection (0117 965 5952, e-mail: david@elsbury61.freeserve.co.uk)

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