{"id":52,"date":"2018-10-07T14:58:07","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T14:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jongillock.com\/2018\/?page_id=52"},"modified":"2024-12-22T15:50:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T15:50:00","slug":"press-reviews","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jongillock.com\/2018\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Jon Gillock, Organist<\/span>
\n<\/strong><\/span>Concert Artist – Master Teacher – Recording Artist – Author<\/span>
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n


\n\u201c\u2026incomparable organist Jon Gillock\u2026a miracle\u2026<\/span>
\nthe festival\u2019s sublime conclusion!\u2026\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/strong><\/span>American Record Guide, EROI Festival<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n

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Photo: Nicholas Prout<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
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\u201cCertain ones [organists] play it better than me. There is the excellent American organist
\nJon Gillock in New York.\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/span><\/b>Olivier Messiaen\u00a0<\/i>in Claude Samuel\u2019s 1986 book
\nEntretiens avec Olivier Messiaen<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cUtter authority, sensitivity, and
\nunderstated brilliance\u2026\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/strong>The New York Times<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOrganist Jon Gillock delivered a tour de force<\/em> of the first magnitude\u2026<\/span>
\na revelatory performance.\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/i>The Buffalo News
\n<\/i>North American New Music Festival<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPhenomenal\u2026\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>Time Out New York<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cA miracle of suspended time\u2026\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>The New Yorker<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cA powerful experience\u2026<\/span>
\nMasterful musicianship\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>Kalamazoo Gazette,\u00a0<\/i>The Gilmore Festival<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cA model of sensitive interpretation\u2026\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>The Diapason<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u201cThis concert showed me a miracle.\u201d
\n<\/span><\/b><\/span>The Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo, Japan<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026superb organist Jon Gillock\u2026riveted audience\u2026\u201d<\/span> \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><\/b>The New York Times<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026perception\u2026insight\u2026authoritative, passionate interpretation\u2026
\nthat passion is infectious in a performance as potent as the one Mr. Gillock produced.\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/b>The New York Times<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBefore an audience that packed the church, Mr. Gillock played Messiaen\u2019s M\u00e9ditations sur le Myst\u00e8re de la Sainte Trinit\u00e9<\/em>,
\na 90 minute work in nine parts: music of awesome, mystical, eerie and shattering power\u2026
\nMr. Gillock\u2019s palpable command of this daunting piece came through in every moment\u2026
\n<\/b><\/span>What a privilege to hear Mr. Gillock play this eclectic Messiaen masterwork.\u201d
\n<\/b><\/span>The New York Times<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou played wonderfully: technique, registration, and especially the spiritual and mystical side which you communicated. Under your fingers, the sublime \u201cmessage\u201d of this music was present. The public felt it with great emotion. The success was immense! I thank you for your talent and your wonderful understanding of this inspired music. Messiaen was present yesterday in each of us!\u2026\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen,
\n<\/i>Festival Olivier Messiaen homme de foi: Regard sur son oeuvre d\u2019orgue<\/i><\/b>,
\nEglise de la Sainte-Trinit\u00e9, Paris, 1995<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cJon Gillock\u2026an awesome executant of Messiaen. [His] performance delivered poetry in the beatific sections and tremendous power in the Gothic sections\u2026an exercise in artistry.\u201d
\n<\/b><\/span>The American Organist,\u00a0<\/i>Centennial National Convention of the American Guild of Organists<\/span><\/p>\n

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Jon Gillock, Organist Concert Artist – Master Teacher – Recording Artist – Author \u201c\u2026incomparable organist Jon Gillock\u2026a miracle\u2026 the festival\u2019s sublime conclusion!\u2026\u201d American Record Guide, EROI Festival \u201cCertain ones [organists] play it better than me. There is the excellent American organist Jon Gillock in New York.\u201d Olivier Messiaen\u00a0in Claude Samuel\u2019s 1986 book Entretiens avec Olivier […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-52","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jongillock.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jongillock.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jongillock.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jongillock.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jongillock.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"https:\/\/jongillock.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":412,"href":"https:\/\/jongillock.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions\/412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jongillock.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}