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 ...
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 ...
The organ — whether concert hall or church variety — has long shown signs of becoming an endangered species. Churches have been dumping their instruments for years, and for a while the organ became so ...
To some lovers of classical sounds, organ music seems irremediably goyish, despite outstanding achievements by such Jewish composers as Aaron Copland and Arnold Schoenberg in writing for the so-called ...
Steven Ball, staff organist with the Historic Organ Restoration Committee, plays the console of the huge Boardwalk Hall organ in Atlantic City, N.J. The organ that is mostly behind the walls of ...
Hit something with a hammer, and it makes a sound. If you’re lucky, it might even make a pleasant sound, which is the idea behind the Great Stalacpipe Organ in Luray Caverns, Virginia. The organ was ...
When people see the new four-story organ at First Community Church’s North Campus, they often think that the pipes they see are solely responsible for making the instrument’s rich sound. But Dominik ...
Students involved in Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Organ Studio had chances to try out instruments at an Armstrong County church, then at notable locations in Connecticut and New York City.
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 ...
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 ...
Steven Ball, staff organist with the Historic Organ Restoration Committee, plays the console of the huge Boardwalk Hall organ in Atlantic City, N.J. The organ that is mostly behind the walls of ...