Pulling Out All the Stops: 2013 Longwood Gardens International Organ Competition DVD

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PULLING OUT ALL THE STOPS chronicles the competition onstage and behind-the-scenes, and captures the drama leading up to the announcement of the first-prize winner of The Longwood Gardens International Organ Competition. Viewers will meet a cast of characters, extraordinary young organists, judges, audience members, and Longwood Garden's curators and historians. Along the way, viewers will hear great organ music performed on a legendary symphonic-style pipe organ in a setting of unsurpassed elegance and beauty. PCK Media filmed each of the ten finalists as they prepared for the competition at home in Los Angeles, CA, Rochester, NY, Bloomington, IN, Oklahoma City, OK, Houston, Texas, Paris, France, and Cologne, Germany. Organists confront a challenge not faced by other musicians. Every instrument is completely different and none of Longwoods' ten finalists had a chance to practice on the Aeolian Organ before arriving at the competition. Each had five hours to master one of the world's most complex instruments. A collection of quirky characters and personalities emerge throughout the documentary: the ten contestants and their families and friends, the judges, who don't always agree on who should win, the Longwood Gardens curators and historians, and the competition host, Michael Barone, a popular NPR Public radio personality and producer of the series Pipedreams. Viewers will see how the finalists bond and make new friendships during their several intense weeks together, even as they compete to win.