Wall Street, had no doubt that this new technology would give me exactly what I wanted. And when it did, it was fabulous, but it wasn’t a surprise. It was exactly what I predicted -which is better. FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES, TO THE WASHINGTON POST, TO CBS NEWS, YOU HAVE BEEN LABELED THE “BAD BOY” OF THE ORGAN. WHAT DO YOU THINK THEY MEAN AND WHAT DOES THAT MEAN TO YOU? One knows perfectly well what they mean. Being the bad boy of the organ is no special achievement in itself. The organ community is generally a religiously observant, highly conservative place in which one’s personal, let alone artistic worth, tends to be judged, in both stated and unstated ways, by one’s ability to be cohesive to a crowd and to be conformist to musical and liturgical expectations. Anything really creatively undertaken in the organ world would make you a ‘bad-boy’. The thing that we learn, which is much more interesting to take away from this, and the thing about it that I resist is, that when we call someone a ‘bad boy,’ it is an attempt to weaken a character. If we can find a way to ‘cuten’ them … we can find a way to put a nice box around somebody, then they are less threatening. Then, of course, it is less incumbent upon us as observers to actually understand what they are doing or why it has a context. Not to mention, it’s not at all interesting and it says nothing at all about music!
THIS ALBUM TO HIGHLIGHT THE NEW TRAVELING ORGAN? Yes and no. An organ, like any musical instrument, is just that, an instrument. It is a vehicle for expression, it is not the message itself. And so, while this organ is unbelievably dynamic, coloristic, and for me is by far the best and the most satisfying organ in the world, it is also an instrument, like every other organ, [that] has been brought into existence from the ethical standpoint of being a vehicle for expression. While the music on the album does a fantastic job of showing off the organ, that is not its purpose. The music on the album was chosen to make a personal statement. Although it’s my 3rd album, it’s the first album on the touring organ, and I’ve always viewed the moment at which the touring organ will finally begin is actually the start of what I consider my career. It’s basically the start of a 2nd career. My intention is that with in 2 years of this launch, the International Touring Organ will be the only instrument I play.
New York will have the exciting opportunity to witness Cameron’s dream come to life at an all-day festival in honor of the International Touring Organ and the 2014 release of his first album with SONY. Join Cameron on Sunday, March 9th, at Lincoln Center for two dramatically different performances (one at 2 PM and another at 7 PM), a hands-on demonstration of his new instrument, and many YOUR FIRST ALBUM WITH SONY CLASSICAL WAS other celebratory events. Information and ticketing RECORDED ON YOUR NEW INSTRUMENT AND IS DUE options can be found at www.lincolncenter.org OUT IN APRIL. DID YOU SELECT THE REPERTOIRE FOR
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