by Fraser | Jul 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
What is it about Toccatas? Mention Widor or Boellmann, Gigout or Dubois and organists all over the world start recounting their stories of when they played XX’s Toccata in St. X in a concert on a wet Sunday afternoon in London/Paris/New York etc… Ask an...
by Fraser | Apr 10, 2020 | Composition, Fraser Gartshore, Improvisation, Music, Organs, YouTube Videos
Organists are funny creatures. They have an unexplainable love of an instrument, actually a machine, that lurks in cold buildings and has the power to both intimidate and impress listeners. And there we have it – power – organists love power. Even the...
by Fraser | Apr 8, 2020 | Cars, Gartshore's Garage, Reviews, YouTube Videos
Back in 2015, I leased a daily driver. it had to be reliable, economical, large enough to carry musical instruments and passengers and, if possible, not boring. It also had to be affordable. Obviously, I would have loved to have leased a Porsche Panamera or an AMG...
by Fraser | Mar 31, 2020 | Composition, Fraser Gartshore, Music, YouTube Videos
In the good old days when I was a student at Edinburgh Uni – we’re talking the early 90s – the world of recording was getting used to the idea of digital. This new way of converting sound into bits and bytes was going to revolutionize the audio...
by Fraser | Mar 19, 2020 | Blues, Fraser Gartshore, Music, YouTube Videos
As the world closes its doors to recover from viral disturbances, I have decided to use the time to add to my online outpourings and delve deeper into the world of popular music and its history, beginnings and developments throughout the 20th century, in the vain hope...