Dennis Wolkowicz was a self-taught pipe organist and silent film aficionado who ran two Northwest Side theaters, the Gateway and the Portage, for many years and was active in efforts to restore the ...
Hoyt Sherman Place's century-long wait for a pipe organ has finally ended, with a fully restored 1922 instrument — once ...
Aviators and theater organists have a strange symbiosis. “It’s something about those buttons,” said Carl Hackert, who plays Proctors’ Wurlitzer theater organ, known as Goldie. He also is the ...
The first pieces of a massive, historic theater pipe organ built more than 90 years ago have been installed at Rochester Institute of Technology’s music performance theater, currently under ...
Christopher Nordwall and a co-worker gave a thorough tuneup to the 1928 Kimball Theatre Pipe Organ in the atrium of the State Office Building less than two years ago. But when he returned Thursday ...
Andrew Rogers filled the main room of the Michigan Theater with the powerful and playful tones of the Barton Theatre Pipe Organ for nearly two decades. He was beloved not only for his music. Residents ...