{"id":37831,"date":"2023-09-07T14:59:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T18:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/?p=37831"},"modified":"2023-09-07T17:08:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T21:08:38","slug":"celebrating-summer-meet-the-organ-that-drawing-music-lovers-to-the-dai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/entertainment\/2023\/09\/07\/celebrating-summer-meet-the-organ-that-drawing-music-lovers-to-the-dai\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Summer: Meet The Organ That Is Drawing Music Lovers To The DAI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Outside the large, open doors of the Dayton Art Institute\u2019s<\/a> (DAI) auditorium, instruments scream as though from another world. High-pitched trumpets and the whine of strings filter out into the foyer and its many connecting halls. It is an enticing invitation, one even the most fair-weather fan of music would find hard to resist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For nearly a hundred years, visitors just like myself have been enchanted by the DAI\u2019s pipe organ. Its voices create a window in time to the heydays of the 1920s when such complex instruments were all the rage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sitting on the bench, in full command of the great instrument, Matt Dierking <\/a>looks as far from the roaring twenties as his bright Hawaiian shirt and relaxed demeanor suggests. Yet the volunteer organist shows what decades of experience sounds like, stroking and pedaling the works of George Frideric Handel and Claude Debussy into melodic life. Each carefully selected note rang as if to say: \u201cSummer on the Ernest M. Pipe Skinner Organ is here at no extra charge!\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dierking\u2019s performances have attracted people for years. Like clockwork, he is always keen to volunteer to play the famed organ every first and third Sunday of every month. The former head of the Dayton Chapter of the American Guild of Organists has just what it takes to craft programs tailored to the season and audience. He proves that afternoon with ease. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is a symphonic organ made up of about 1400 pipes,\u201d he says. \u201cIt was built in 1929 for the museum. Back then, it was hard to have an orchestra always present, live music was expensive. But once you put an organ it, it could be played all the time.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs a symphonic instrument, it has a lot of voices that mimic what would have in a symphony. There\u2019s a really pretty clarinet, an English horn, and sassy things like tubas and trumpets,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dierking\u2019s selection was chosen to sound like summer. Quiet moments, relaxing notes, even triumphant celebrations of the season- summer in its many expressions were on full display. Handel\u2019s \u2018Water Music\u2019 and George Gershwin\u2019s \u2018Summertime\u2019 are just a few of the classical pieces he played. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As explained by Dierking\u2019s accompanying presentation, Skinner organs like the DAI\u2019s were once hotly desired commodities in the US. Andrew Carnegie <\/a>had one, which an organist played every morning to wake him up. The Rockefeller\u2019s also had one built for their use. Given his success and fame, Ernest Skinner was a busy man, constructing instruments for homes and other prestigious structures around the US. His masterpiece at the DAI was titled \u2018Opus 749, 1929\u2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Popular hits from the big screen offered the organist a chance to show his audience just how versatile the organ can be. After multiple rounds of clapping and over a half dozen tunes, it was no wonder the instrument remains as popular today as it was back then. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the perfect balance of music, science, and technology,\u201d Dierking said. \u201cThe sounds the casements can make, their power, it\u2019s all just astounding.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That afternoon, over a dozen visitors to the institute would certainly agree. Many more are bound to share Dierking\u2019s love and enthusiasm for the instrument in the near future, as his efforts to share the extraordinary Skinner organ with the world continue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ismael David Mujahid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Managing Editor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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