Bach Organ

For almost 16 consecutive hours on Sunday, musician Calvin Bowman played the entirety of Bach's organ works at the Melbourne Town Hall.

This was yet another part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival. Though, Bowman resides in the state of Victoria, so I don't believe internationalism is necessarily a criterion.

He started playing at 8am and continued on through to 12:40am. There were only several short breaks scheduled during this feat for rest and meals.

Color-changing lights lit the 32-foot organ at Town Hall in all of its splendor. At times it glowed red, then shifted to a light blue or green. There is only so long my interest can remain piqued by one man with his back to the audience, and the shifting hues of the room made for additional observations. Some parts of the organ were only very visible in certain colors so each change was an opportunity to see more.

I attended just part of the performance for "Major preludes, toccatas and fugues II."
Take a listen, if you'd like. The video itself is unexciting for its entire duration, if at all, so I did not bother to make the dimensions large.

After the session of organ amazement, I went to the airport to pick up my sister. In addition to the long flight from Honolulu, she'd spent two days of her Hawaiian vacation in the hospital with inflamed intestines and was feeling ill. So we came home, she settled into the house and got some much needed rest.