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 ...

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 ...

Paul T. Barte, who has been a fixture of the music faculty in the School of Music since 1997, teaching organ, music history ...

The first mechanical pipe organ, a water-driven monster called a hydraulus, so awed the ancients that they enshrined it in a temple of Venus. A 5th century organ at Jerusalem thundered forth such a ...

Railroad tycoon Henry Flagler was a music-loving man who loved that Whitehall, his Palm Beach mansion, included a music room ...

We associate the pipe organ with Johann Sebastian Bach and other Baroque masters. But, since the mid-14th century, there has been an unbroken stream of notated organ music, making it the most enduring ...

The Schantz Pipe Organ in the Christ First United Methodist Church sanctuary is pictured. The organ will be featured in a concert Sunday featuring Ron McEntire. Christ First United Methodist Church ...

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The nearly 100-year-old organ has called Loranger Middle School home since the late 1960s. Its original home was in New ...

The Centennial Organ was so named because of its construction during Chico State University’s 100-year-anniversary. It graced the stage at the university’s Harlen Adams Theatre since the late 1980s.

I often talk about my dad being 99, and good for him, but it is also true that my mother succumbed to a brain tumor in her late sixties. It came on suddenly, progressed rapidly and devastated the ...