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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
“O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, show thyself.” So begins the anguished Psalm 94 of the Old Testament. In 1857, German composer Julius Reubke set the Biblical poem to music for the “King of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...