163 Seconds in a Lutheran Organist's Head (Preface, Sanctus, Lord's Prayer/Our Father)
Channel: welldontdothat
Date: 2020-06-08

In the liturgical climax of the Divine Service, a Lutheran organist's mind is a little distracted by a registration problem.  The Sanctus *is* and needs to be played like it's a really big deal, but when the room is maybe 12% full, how much is too much?

Filmed on Trinity Sunday, anno Domini 2020, at the console of the 1982 Berghaus II/30 organ at St. Paul's Ev. Lutheran Church (LCMS) in Brookfield, Illinois, USA.  Read about the organ here: https://pipeorgandatabase.org/organ/61195

The musical compositions in this video are being played from pages 24–27 in "The Lutheran Hymnal" (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1941), but the organist's free interpretation of them is closer to their public domain counterparts from pages 9–11 of "Evangelical Lutheran Hymn-Book with Tunes" (St. Louis, Concordia Publishing House, 1912), available here: https://acollectionofprayers.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/order-of-morning-service-or-the-communion-elhb.pdf