What is old can be new again, in the right hands and under the right feet. For example, the pipe organ. With origins in ancient Greece, it is associated today mostly with church music and horror films ...
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 ...
Perhaps it's because a pipe organ breathes like a human being, groans with rumbling growls, twitters with soaring soprano chirps. Through a musician's fingers and toes the instrument can express ...
Someone in our old Geezer Group mentioned seeing on TV about a rural fellow, Mike Pederson who lived in Nora, S.D., ...
The appeal of rattling church rafters turned John Ahern toward the pipe organ. Granted, Ahern, 17, doesn’t want church walls to collapse when he plays chords during a hymn, but he likes the power. “I ...
DULUTH — A group of volunteers hopes to breathe new life into a dilapidated pipe organ mostly hidden behind the walls of an historic school auditorium. The nonprofit Denfeld Historic Organ Restoration ...
The Worcester Chapter of the American Guild of Organists is at a good stopping point for pipe organs. Worcester is the “pipe organ capital of New England,” says Randy Steere, dean of the Worcester ...
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 college students have different goals and plans as they learn to play what Mozart called the “King of the Instruments.” One Trinity College student wants to become a full-time organist, playing in ...
County officials have been fighting for years over what to do with a historic instrument. "It's a piece of history, but ...