A computerized organ that launched the digital music revolution, made by Allen Organ Co., is headed to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. The Digital Computer Organ, made in 1971, was the ...
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 ...
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 ...
James]’ Mechanical Organ of Dutch origin has been around longer than he has, but thanks to being rebuilt over the years and ...
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 ...
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) – It’s described as the largest musical instrument in the world, yet an audience can barely see it. The historic organ at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City boasts more than ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...