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The Organistas

The Organistas

By Bert Shapiro

United States, United Kingdom 27 minutes 2007 English
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Awards
  • Best Director - 2007 Black Maria Film and Video Festival (Jersey City, United States)
Festivals
  • Haydenfilms.com Film Festival 2007 (Online)
  • Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival 2007 (Hot Springs, United States)
  • New Filmmakers 2007 (New York City)
  • RiverFest Film Festival 2007 (Frenchtown, NJ, USA)
  • Rochester Film Festival 2007 (Rochester, New York, United States)
  • SouthSide Film Festival 2007 (Bethlehem, United States)
  • Zoie Film Festival 2007 (Online)

Synopsis

Master musicians reveal why they are passionate about the pipe organ, the King of Instruments. Designers, craftsmen and women show the rarely seen skills of voicing, or molten metal forming, and the many sophisticated hand and eye skills using hand-made tools to make the organ speak with its unique sound.

The Organistas features music from Bach to the contemporary masters. These glorious sounds are heard and seen in magnificent churches, chapels, concert halls and private homes. From the Los Angeles Philharmonic Hall and its more than 6000 pipes to a tiny organ built about 1680 played in a private office in London, these special performances are rarely filmed, and have never been collected in a single documentary.

Wind, air, wood, metal, ivory and ebony...all combine to create tremulous pianissimos and thrilling fortissimos in the many voices of the pipes. The Organistas opes the door to this hidden world of epic beauty and dedicated craftsmanship.

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