Organ Reframed is a three-day music festival at Union Chapel in London that asks artists to compose original pieces for a pipe organ. It's a tough ask, according to a writer for The Guardian. "It's 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 ...
This past Tuesday was the 75th anniversary of the first-ever performance of live organ music at a Major League Baseball game. Ballpark organists Josh Kantor, who plays for the Boston Red Sox, and ...
Charlie Chaplin is precariously perched atop a ladder. His character, an assistant at a pawnshop, attempts to polish the storefront. As the ladder rocks back and forth in increasingly wider swings, an ...
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 ...
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 ...
If you were a high-roller in the early 20th century, you may well have acquired an Aeolian pipe organ for your palatial home. The Aeolian Company of New York installed its signature organs in “the ...
For more than 40 years, the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., has welcomed visitors to its annual summer organ recital series, providing a unique ...