My 1996 performance on homebuilt electronic organ. Despite limitations of the recording equipment, low budget & organ balance calibrations at the time, this was a highly acclaimed performance topping the classical charts for a long time on the former mp3.com before that site tanked from the piracy lawsuits. It's on my 'Pipe Organ Story' CD here: http://www.MuSeeks.com/ArthurSulit This recording has often been mistaken or compared with that of E. Power Biggs (on the Harvard Flentrop Organ). Obviously influenced. His blows away Virgil Fox's, in capturing the Heavenly Essence, IMHO. The CD made the Year-In-Review Top 20 all-time on mp3.com in 1999 (in sales and listens). Mp3.com was the only site paying Artists per click, (youTube doesn't), and was the first time that independent classical artists could actually pay rent and food based on merit rather than on what Label you were on. This helps the Economy, because the more genuine artists can then focus on their craft rather than give it up to wear an employee badge. More people would be inspired, less cynical, more constructive and so on. Unfortunately, mp3.com's revenue base got demolished when Napster, Kazaa etc. popped up, and everyone flocked from legit sites to piracy sites, like moo-ing cows. (Say "mooo!"). Little piglet kids were pirating left and right with full parental approval (Say "Oink Oink!"). Those parents should be sued, and should lose their car and house like I nearly did. Even people earning a good living, who could easily afford CD's just like food, preferred to go to Piracy sites. The Cow-people left the legit sites to rot in the dust, which in turn destroyed many classical Artists' living. Thus ended a unique chapter in history. The first time that Beethoven's wishes for an Agency where composers could just turn in their works, and have it paid for based on quality rather than having to spend 90% of one's time sucking up to Patrons, came and went. The moo-moo pirates, many of them church-goers, still want everything for free, thinking no harm was done. What they don't realize is the Social Sin which begets more sins, causing damage not just to the composers, but to the world which is now denied the opportunity to hear more great, godly stuff. Do any of them repent? Most haven't a clue. Their little devil-ly horns, they just shrug their shoulders and say, "Whatever". Pirates don't realize what they're doing when they file-share once, they do it as a huge group, destroying otherwise great artists. So if you look around you, the news, the world blows up, because everyone wants to steal. Nehemiah 12-13 For those of you who still pirate but want "world peace", after all the warnings about your own complicity in damaging entire economies, take a look at yourself. You're part of the cause, not the solution. Heavenly music like Bach is designed to help people pray, and become better persons. But if you deny that music to people, by destroying the wages of the better artists, then people instead turn to empty music. So think twice, before pirating again. The relation between tithing for great music (Nehemiah 12-13) and church attendance is real, because it is great music which draws people away from the noise of the world, to reflect upon that Other world. That's what this music says.
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