Allen Organ Co. crossed space-age technology with the centuries-old ring of a pipe organ, and the results are still reverberating 36 years later. Allen’s Digital Computer Organ, released in 1971, was ...
Though Mozart knew many significant instruments of the Netherlands, Germany, and Austria at the time, none would compare to the recently renovated Margaret L. Wendt Memorial Organ of Holy Trinity ...
The organ is a keyboard instrument of one or more pipe divisions, each played with its own keyboard, played either with the hands on a keyboard or with the feet using pedals. History The organ is a ...
In just ten years, the Walt Disney Concert Hall has become one of the most recognizable landmarks in L.A., but the Frank Gehry designed venue doesn’t just look good. The concert hall’s organ (which we ...
Stacy Tenenbaum’s film Pipe Dreams features four young organ players competing in the prestigious Canadian International Organ Competition, held every few years in Montreal. What’s striking is that ...
Hidden in an old converted warehouse in the West Seventh neighborhood of St. Paul is a pipe organ looking for a good home. It has about 900 pipes, a case made of American walnut, an African zebrawood ...
Luray caverns in Virginia have been a natural landmark for 50 years. They also hold the world's largest musical instrument, a Stalacpipe organ. In the rolling mountains of northern Virginia. Luray ...
The Montreal-based filmmaker Stacey Tenenbaum‘s joyful film The Art of the Shine, which aired on PBS, took the director all over the world, from New York to Toronto, Paris to La Paz, Bolivia, to look ...
There are still 15,000 pipe organs in Britain’s churches. However, according to a survey by the charity Pipe Up for Organs, ...
For those who ever wondered how pipe organs work, the perfect opportunity for an answer will come later this month. Lotte Concert Hall is set to host “Organ Odyssey,” featuring one of the world's ...
Younger readers may not recall the days when every mall had a music store — not the kind where tapes and LPs were sold, but the kind where you could buy instruments. These places inevitably had an ...
I’m not very good on the organ – not that I’ve ever tried to play it. Unless it’s Bach or a Messiaen in a great cathedral, I find listening to even a minute of its wheezing and moaning can be ...