The most incredible performance I have ever seen

I have been a member of this site for almost 15 years now, and people who know me are aware that I am a huge fan of organist Barbara Dennerlein; she plays augmented Hammond B3 as well as pipe organs. I have always considered her to be a virtuoso of the highest grade. but sometimes you discover videos of your favorite artists that make you revere them even more, and this just happened to me with Barbara Dennerlein. I really mean it when I say this is the most f***ing awesome display of virtuosity by a musician that I have ever seen.

please keep in mind that I consider myself to be an excellent keyboardist myself. but while I am very good with my hands I can not use my feet at the same time except for pressing the three pedals of a grand piano, the damper pedal, the soft pedal and the sostenuto (sustain) pedal. Barbara however has complete independency of all 4 limbs, and nowhere does she display this more than in this video which was recorded live at the Trinity Church in New York.

and now without further ado watch this and be awed:

this is a stellar performance even by Barbara's extremely high standards. Barbara, I now hold you in even higher esteem than before. this performance just was out of this world

^ Yep--  best thing I ever saw was Stevie in '84 for the Couldn't Stand the Weather tour at the Warfierld Theater in S.F.

U2 Joshua Tree, Ronnie Lane's Appeal Tour, Yes in the Round... all great but SRV at his peak takes the cake.

still have to say the most incrediblbe performance I ever saw was Dave Brubeck in a completely intimate setting..  like 15 of us.  The performance was made crazy brilliant enough.. but was best was getting the one on one face time with him after.. even better was him making a comment on the f**king smoking hot  yooper I was with.. yeah.. she was a wild one and abolsutely rocked my world later.. umm hmmm...  

so yeah.. incredible music. then talking with a legend..  and later getting f**ked into the stone age .. 

top that for incredible performances hah....

As to OP, I go over this very topic in my head from time to time and I come up with several moments or impressions that seem to rise above the rest:

 - The ease, joy, and emotional-connection with which John McLaughlin plays his guitar--every time I've seen him.

 - The etheric connection Diana Krall seems to have with some other-dimensional place between she and her audience--a place from which she draws each and every note as if she had no idea of what was coming next, of where her Muse--the Music--was going to take her. It is truly magical to witness!

 - Several performances my daughters were involved in--choir and ballet--in which they achieved expression that seemed so far beyond their years, their abilities, as if they were being Divinely manipulated.