George Eastman House North Organ Project (all images courtesy the George Eastman House) Each morning as he sat down to breakfast, George Eastman would be serenaded by live pipe organ music played by a ...
The pipe organ. No harmonica, now is it? It can be as big as a bus, a building, and produce a massive sound. (SOUNDBITE OF FRANK MARTIN'S "PRELUDE NO. 3") SIMON: Let us introduce Michael Barone, host ...
TRAVERSE CITY — In the budding days of America’s love affair with film, theater organs provided live soundtracks. Thanks to a $9,000 grant dedicated to repairs, the Music House Museum’s Wurlitzer ...
Pity the poor pipe organ. The behemoth instruments are often thought of as fusty relics of classical music — heard only in churches, vintage horror movies and increasingly fewer baseball stadiums. But ...
"The picture is one of the best ever shown in Memphis, barring none," raved a movie reviewer credited as "A.M.D." in the Feb. 2, 1926, edition of The Commercial ...
A decommissioned pipe organ has been given a second life at Mount Auburn Cemetery by artist-in-residence Eden Rayz. It all started back in 2022, when a friend told her the cemetery's massive, ...
Together in partnership with the American Theatre Organ Society, The Strand will screen the 1928 silent film classic Wings on Sunday, July 21, 2024 at 3:00PM. With live accompaniment on The Strand’s ...
She takes the 21 steps up the narrow staircase to the balcony of Canoga Park Lutheran Church to perform one final song on the pipe organ she’s played almost every Sunday since the church opened in ...
How do you describe Organ Fairchild? On its website, the acclaimed instrumental trio — guitarist Dave Ruch, organist and keyboardist Joe Bellanti, and drummer Corey Kertzie — calls itself a "Buffalo ...
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 ...