Organ Bash III March 10, 2007

Dan Miller... who designed and voiced this organ was here as our featured organist. Dan entertained us all in two separate sets, returning for two encore performances due to the immense and nearly unending applause.

81 Years... difference between these two fantastic organists. Eric, age 14, assists Archie, age 95 with registration changes. What a treat this was to those who stayed until 10 PM! Archie had her own band, playing in saloons in the early 1920's.

Eric Fricke a resident of Arizona, is a 14-year-old theatre organ student of Lew Williams. Eric has studied piano for eight years and classical organ for two years. He currently studies classical organ with Dr. Craig Westendorf and piano with Jenny Weatherwax. He also studies solfege and music theory with Professor Snezana Radojevic of Belgrade, Serbia, a Doctorate student at Arizona State University.

The Crowd... stands absolutely still and quiet for Dan's performance of "Come Sweet Death". Dan chose the Virgil Fox edition of this Bach favorite for this performance. Nearly 100 organists and friends enjoyed this very difficult arrangement, made to look easy as Dan's fingers stretched accross 3 manuals to fill in the chords.

Bill Swayze made his first appearance at an Organ Bash. Bill is Senior Staff Accompanist at Arizona State University's Dance Dept. playing for Ballet and Modern technique classes forr Dance majors improvising for classes everyday, playing many divergent styles of music. He also trains and supervises hourly musicians who play for classes, and operates the Dance Dept.'s recording studio. Bill is also a jazz pianist who performs at numerous corporate gigs and conventions with some of the best musicians in town.

Dan meets Dan ! Finally, the two Dan's meet. Dan (in the blue shirt) sits in for the real Dan during his absence. In the past, we have played Dan's music courtesy the MR-200 Sequencer. As Dan was busy performing in other cities, "Little Dan" sat quite silently on the bench as Dan "played".