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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5448985/5449017" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> The ...

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.

There`s never been anything like it. The thrilling sound of a huge theater pipe organ–either in concert or accompanying a silent film–was an integral part of our early theater palaces. But when ...

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

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 ...