Railroad tycoon Henry Flagler was a music-loving man who loved that Whitehall, his Palm Beach mansion, included a music room ...
If you were a high-roller in the early 20th century, you may well have acquired an Aeolian pipe organ for your palatial home. The Aeolian Company of New York installed its signature organs in “the ...
Read the history of organ music at Trinity Episcopal Church and there’s so much material there, you could write a sequel to “Under the Greenwood Tree,” Thomas Hardy’s novel set in mid-19th-century ...
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 ...
The organ is a surprising feature of a home for sale in Grand Rapids, Mich. — -- If you are in the market for a small home on an old city street with a 2,300-piece pipe organ hidden inside, then ...
NPR's Scott Simon talks to Michael Barone, host of Pipedreams, a public radio program dedicated to the pipe organ and celebrating 40 years on the air. The pipe organ. No harmonica, now is it? It can ...
The only thing missing was a monkey with a cup. Mark Pall, a 16-year-old organ player, stood outside The Home Depot in Wilkes-Barre on a recent Friday afternoon, spinning out jovial tunes from his ...
Twenty years ago, Mount Gretna residents Walter McAnney and Peter Hewitt started an organ music concert series. Every Thursday or Friday in July an organist would perform. When the series started, ...
Sylvia Thiel had a two-week old baby boy when her husband Mick volunteered her to play the organ at St. Columban Church in Loveland. That’s where the story of the “Allen Organ” really begins. “A lot ...
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.