MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- The first sounding of the Cathedrals restored and enhanced 1963 Skinner gallery organ anticipated to be heard at the Easter Vigil, set for 8 p.m. Saturday, has been postponed. The ...
An iconic Manhattan church has completed the monumental feat that is replacing a pipe organ. “It’s a rare, once-in-a-lifetime thing that you see those size organ pipes being installed in a space like ...
ASPEN – E. Power Biggs, a prominent classical organist from the mid-20th century, liked to refer to his instrument as “just a box of whistles.” “And it is. It’s just air going through pipes,” Jon ...
Back in the early 1980s the Session of Elders at Lake Tahoe Community Presbyterian Church voted to replace their failing electronic organ. They debated about whether to purchase a new electronic one, ...
PORT TOWNSEND — An organist sits down at a pipe organ. The organ has 23 ranks of pipes replicating the instruments of a symphony orchestra. Each rank has 61 pipes spanning five octaves. Using the two ...
Organ pipes are seen in this undated photo near the altar at the Basilica of the National Shrine of Mary, Queen of the Universe in Orlando, Fla. The basilica recently completed the installation of ...
The organ arrived from Utah on a warm August morning. Greeted by holy water, incense and slide whistles, it came in a 53-foot-long truck that was double-parked on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The ...
GARDEN GROVE, Calif. – There are few pipe organs in the world that have a nickname, a feminine pronoun and a Facebook fan page. The Hazel Wright organ – just “Hazel,” to her admirers – was removed ...
Bruce Stavem remembers how he felt when he become an organist for Wooddale Church and got a chance to play its Visser-Rowland pipe organ. This organ is a special instrument, Stavem said. According to ...
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Members of First Congregational Church in Ashfield are pumped because their 1903 George Reed tracker organ has been restored. The $244,000 project was completed in June, but the organ has yet to be ...