Made up of just over 1,300 pipes, the organ was built by Casavant Frères, a Canadian manufacturer that dates back to 1879.
It is the most modern of early instruments. Mastering it requires effort and a great deal of passion. Five organists —ranging ...
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 ...
For nearly five years Martin Pasi has been enveloped in the art and craft of creating his Opus XIX, the new organ at the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart. With a team of five metal and wood workers, ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) – It’s 1920 all over again at the Fox Theater. Yes, we know the theater didn’t open until 1930, but we ...
Rev. ed. of: The king of instruments : how churches came to have organs. London : SPCK, 1993. The organ is the largest instrument with the largest repertory and the greatest influence on Western music ...
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 ...
If you’ve attended a church service in Northeast Ohio, chances are you’ve heard a Schantz Organ. The Orrville company that makes pipe organs is marking 145 years in business and is now under its ...
Luray caverns in Virginia have been a natural landmark for 50 years. They also hold the world's largest musical instrument, a Stalacpipe organ. In the rolling mountains of northern Virginia. Luray ...
The Montreal-based filmmaker Stacey Tenenbaum‘s joyful film The Art of the Shine, which aired on PBS, took the director all over the world, from New York to Toronto, Paris to La Paz, Bolivia, to look ...
MACUNGIE, Pa. - Allen Organ in Macungie is celebrating 85 years in business in the Lehigh Valley. It was founded in 1937 by Jerome Markowitz, who created the first electronic analogue organ. "Analogue ...