Join: Aug 30, 2006

Name: gromitbilly

Gender: Male

Location: US

Videos Watched: 507

Subscribers: 4

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Books: Berlin Stories - Christopher Isherwood; Stephen Saylor's Roma Sub Rosa series; James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux series.

Movies: Auntie Mame, Wizard of Oz, A Room With A View, A Christmas Story, Little Britain, I Love Lucy.

Music: French and German Romantic organ; Bach organ; 60's - 70's and 80's rock/pop/disco; Loreena McKennitt; Welsh, Irish, English and old time American folk and dance music.

Hobbies: Pipe organs, the Wanamaker Organ, Grande Orgue - St. Sulpice, Paris, roller coasters, amusement parks, streetcars-subways-interurbans-metros, languages, travel, people and places, reading.

Videos (6)

Wanamaker Organ - Bach Fugue in A minor

  • Length: 0:41
  • Rating Average: 5.00 from 2 people
  • View Count: 662' favoriteCount='3
  • Author: gromitbilly

Tags: Bach  Colin  Fugue  Howland  Macy's  minor  Organ  Philadelphia  pipe  Wanamaker 

(Short!) extract of Bach's Fugue in A minor BWV 543 played by Colin Howland on the Wanamaker Organ, Macy's Philadelphia.

Wanamaker Organ Day 2008 - Wm. Tell Overture

  • Length: 1:21
  • Rating Average: 5.00 from 3 people
  • View Count: 977' favoriteCount='1
  • Author: gromitbilly

Tags: Conte  Day  Howland  Lucente  Organ  Philadelphia  pipe  Quartet  Stairs  Wanamaker 

Extract of the Philadelphia Organ Quartet playing the William Tell Overture. Michael Stairs, Rudy Lucente and Colin Howland play the Allen digitals, Peter Conte plays the mighty Wanamaker.

Wanamaker Organ Day 2008 - Star Wars Theme

  • Length: 1:39
  • Rating Average: 4.60 from 5 people
  • View Count: 1476' favoriteCount='6
  • Author: gromitbilly

Tags: Colin  Day  Howland  Organ  Philadelphia  pipe  Wanamaker 

Extract of the Star Wars Theme played by Colin Howland at Wanamaker Organ Day 2008, Macy's Philadelphia.

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Vierne, Adagio de la 3ème Symphonie

  • Length: 8:26
  • Rating Average: 5.00 from 6 people
  • View Count: 240' favoriteCount='2
  • Author: julorg

Tags: adagio  Cavaillé-coll  organ  orgel  orgue  symphonie  vierne 

Louis Vierne, Symphonie n°3III - AdagioJulien Girard au GO Cavaillé-Coll de Notre-Dame d'Annonay, très bel instrument hélas en fin de vie, un projet de restauration est en cours...Vous excuserez les quelques bétises, j'ai fait ça pendant mes vacances là-bas, j'ai tenté de compenser en...

The Nu Tornados - Philadelphia, U.S.A (1958)

  • Length: 2:6
  • Rating Average: 5.00 from 1 people
  • View Count: 346
  • Author: Jennyluvver

Tags: 1958  billboard  Nu  philadelphia  pop  Tornados  u.s.a 

Charted at #26 on Billboard Hot 100 in November 1958.

Organ Partita Sarabande and Stations of the Cross

  • Length: 6:39
  • Rating Average: n/a
  • View Count: 688' favoriteCount='3
  • Author: midnightpipes

Tags: 768  Bach  classical  Cross  First  gegrüsset  Hohman  Lutheran  Lyons  Midnight  New  of  Organ  Partita  Pipes  Sei  Stations  the  York 

Organist Frederick Hohman plays the ninth and tenth variations of the organ partita on the choral "Sei gegrüsset, Jesu gütig," S. 768, by Johann Sebastian Bach. The organ is the 1970 Schlicker organ, 2 manuals and pedal, 31 ranks, at the First Lutheran Church of Lyons, New York. The organ is...