Worst ever wedding march
mainI can’t believe this has only had 33,000 views in seven years.
It’s a Youtube classic.
The groom nearly expires of hay fever on the way out.
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Unfortunately, they’re the only applicant for the new Sheffield Cathedral job
Nobody goes to a wedding for the organ. That’s for the wedding night.
There are many videos of this magnitude on YouTube.
No one gets married anymore. I now know the reason why.
What is it you sometimes sometimes write, NL —
“Remember, you read it here first.”
(The hay fever may be from the field flowers held by the guest just behind him…)
The guy is only practicing!!! Ha-ha-ha!!!
Guy? Gender assumptions all over the place in these comments.
Technique is less important than feeling. The organist’s execution of the music shows plenty of feeling and conveys his most sincere wishes for a long, happy and successful marriage.
Jose, are you some kind of wise guy? The best part of your comment was ‘the organist’s execution.’
My dear friend Arthur, nobody could deny that, notwithstanding a few wrong notes here and there, the organist is a very skilled executioner. His execution is an example of really deadly passion.
Sounds like Alfalfa playing.
I have heard worst music at weddings.
But, looking on the bright side, at least the first chord was nearly right…
Amazing, the organist is probably the father of this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhPMmuzl0-4
My guess….this is fake, with the organ added over another video. One, they don’t react. Two, that wedding would have a real organist, not a total incompetent. Three, the internet is full of fake stuff. Call me a skeptic.
It’s just a postmodern interpretation
Classic indeed. Reminds me of my grandmother’s funeral. Bach’s “Air”. Even my mother had to giggle.
Either a really bad traditional rendition or a really tame, conservative improv jazz rendition…
I am reminded of the performance of the Navy Hymn at my father’s funeral – the organist should have been made to walk the plank.
I would have refused to pay the organist if that was my wedding!
Too painful to listen to the end.
And you have posted this for why?
How quaint. I remember when there used to be weddings.
My wedding ended quickly. We fought over custody of the wedding cake.
Les Dawson lives!
Very mean of whoever posted this to YouTube. No doubt the organist is doing his/her (obviously very limited) best. Without knowing the circumstances , we shouldn’t be laughing at this.
This is right up there with a wedding ceremony I was a guest at where a hired soloist sang a then very popular song – but also VERY inappropriate – ‘You Don’t Bring Me Flowers’.
Try this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12YGmOG8DDM&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1OiXCbofbaWz0in8zZT-_EBECNfFoOEwVKY-s5L7dFjiWJUWKE39e2fdM
As someone has observed, it looks fake, given lack of reaction by anyone there. But in a lifetime as a freelance organist, several times I’ve been called to the rescue at the last minute when a friend of the family (wedding or funeral) ‘plays the organ and wouldn’t it be nice for them to play’, but when they arrive they find that their organ playing is on a home keyboard and they go to pieces in front of a ‘proper’ console (and with pedals!).
I’ve a very uneasy feeling this might have been a funeral:
https://www.facebook.com/jokonda68com/videos/456874467824141/
There’s no substitute for learning on the job. He should have chosen Lohengrin instead, or played Horowitz’s record of Liszt’s Mendelssohn march variations.
Check your gender assumptions please!
aother choice for wedding marh is St. Anthony’s chorale, used at my wedding in the Swedenborgian Church in San Francisco (because it had a working fireplace), and by Haydn and Brahms for their variations and wind octet. The church had a beautiful walled garden in which we first saw the zygocactus or Christmas cactus in full bloom in October with zygomorphic complex flowers adapted for pollinators such as humming birds, who hovered about them.
This is what happens when you hire the organist from the Portsmouth Sinfonia.
Is this video from the same wedding/church? I can’t tell.
https://youtu.be/uC2br24hDCE
In this video, the French organist’s mangling of the hymn is also matched by the minister’s mangling of the French language (“a la page WHEAT”)