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OT -- Captain Nemo plays Toccata & Fugue
Okay this is off-topic bigtime, but
somebody was just talking about the Toccata & Fugue in D-minor.
One of my all-time favorite childhood
movies was on the cable deep in the middle of the night the other night,
Disney's "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" (1954). A brooding
Captain Nemo (James Mason) sits down at the huge organ of The Nautilus and plays
the Toccata and Fugue.
(A little surfing discloses that the
great-looking pipe organ can still be seen at Disneyland in the Haunted
Mansion.)
Does anybody know who the real organist
was? Pretty durn good passionate scenery-chewing rendition if you ask me.
Perhaps geared for the sensibilities of an eight-year-old boy, but ... are we
not humans, too?
(Please don't make me join the Bach
List to ask.)
Bob / Elmer