Saturday, May 12, 2007 - St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church
383 Jarvis Street, Toronto (at Carlton St.)

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“We’ve been installing these systems for 20 years now and it took this long for someone to do what you guys are doing!”
- James Chubb, Classic Organ Works

This concert is a "must see" for anyone who is interested in preserving the pipe organ and in how to make the pipe organ relevant and exciting for the next generation.

David Smits, Music Committee Chairman and Organist at St. Andrew’s, and Rob Adlers, musician and computer software analyst, have taken this instrument to a whole new level. With the help of Classic Organ Works, the link between the organ console and the pipes has been updated with MIDI capability, which allows the organ to control and be controlled by MIDI capable instruments and computers. The duo has been testing this technology with various musical genres, including classical music, jazz, folk, contemporary and music from other cultures, including their own compositions.

On Saturday, May 12 at 6:30 p.m., Smits and Adlers will be presenting a concert at St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church which will demonstrate the potential of this technology, in collaboration with Classic Organ Works. They will be playing a selection of various genres of music interspersed with a mini-lecture about the technology. Tickets are $10 at the door. For more information, contact David Smits or Rob Adlers.

Contacts:
David Smits - (416)705-2522 - dsmits@mypiano.ca
Rob Adlers - (519)573-4709 - robadlers@auralplane.com