NPR's Scott Simon talks to Michael Barone, host of Pipedreams, a public radio program dedicated to the pipe organ and celebrating 40 years on the air. The pipe organ. No harmonica, now is it? It can ...
The first pieces of a massive, historic theater pipe organ built more than 90 years ago have been installed at Rochester Institute of Technology’s music performance theater, currently under ...
BRATTLEBORO — They came from Maine and Connecticut, experts in the specialized field of reed organs, to fine-tune the historic collection of Estey organs at the Estey Organ Museum, to get ready for ...
This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Pipe organs don’t hold the vaunted place in classical music culture that ...
A massive pipe organ occupies its fair share of the sanctuary wall at the forefront of First Congregational United Church of Christ in Brainerd. The large church acquired the organ in 1922. According ...
ASHFIELD — Asked how low he can go, Tom McChesney fiddled with a couple of levers and then stepped on a foot peddle of the 118-year-old pipe organ. Instantly, the Ashfield Congregation Church became ...
If you haven’t experienced the pipe organ in the Brigham Young University Music Building yet, you’re in for a treat. With 4,613 pipes and 81 ranks (sets of pipes), it’s the third-largest organ in Utah ...
Behind the sweeping walls of Union Terminal's rotunda, something beautiful has been holding its breath. Since the late 1980s, the train station housing the Cincinnati Museum Center has been home to an ...
The Worcester Chapter of the American Guild of Organists is at a good stopping point for pipe organs. Worcester is the “pipe organ capital of New England,” says Randy Steere, dean of the Worcester ...
He drew the best from complex instruments at Riverside Church in Manhattan, at countless recitals and on the “Hour of Power” TV show. By Neil Genzlinger Frederick Swann, who in churches on the East ...
23 young women with drums and marimbas on stage at Spreckel’s Organ Pavilion; drums are labeled: “BEECHNUT GUM”, photo labeled: “AMERICA’S EXPOSITION / SAN DIEGO – CALIFORNIA / MAY 29th – NOV 11th, ...