On a recent Sunday night in West Seattle, people gathered to hear the sound of an era long gone. Accompanying a screening of the 1924 silent movie “Peter Pan” at Kenyon Hall, musician Dennis James ...

For over half a century, Old Town Music Hall has performed live musical accompaniments to silent films, cartoons, and sing-alongs, while housing their behemoth mainstay, the Mighty Wurlitzer theater ...

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 ...

“What Fred would do is he would bring in theater organists from all over the United States and have these folks come in and play,” said Poelman. “And he actually had a journal where he would keep all ...

There was an additional surprise in The Times-Dispatch article of Jan. 13, “Richmond’s Landmark Theater: A surprise in the making.” There was no mention of the world-renowned Wurlitzer pipe organ that ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A massive pipe organ that underscored the drama and comedy of silent movies with live music in Detroit's ornate Hollywood Theatre nearly a century ago was dismantled into thousands ...

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 ...

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 ...

FARGO — The Red River Theatre Organ Society will soon celebrate one of its longest-standing traditions, as they're getting set to host its 50th annual "Silent Movie Night" at the Fargo Theatre on ...

MESA, AZ (AZFamily) — Organ Stop Pizza and its mighty Wurlitzer is known to many as the biggest and best “pizza and pipes” experience in the world. Many of the world’s finest theater organists and ...

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 ...