Younger readers may not recall the days when every mall had a music store — not the kind where tapes and LPs were sold, but the kind where you could buy instruments. These places inevitably had an ...
At 14 metres tall and with intricate maze of pipes, valves and keys, the Bristol Britton organ produces ‘colossal’ sound ...
The 14-metre (45ft) Britton Organ, built in 1956, has been fully restored to the Bristol Beacon's main hall, ready for Grade ...
The organ — whether concert hall or church variety — has long shown signs of becoming an endangered species. Churches have been dumping their instruments for years, and for a while the organ became so ...
Majestic musical tones swelling from a pipe organ, especially during the holidays, can evoke reverence, memories of past celebrations or a sense of community and connection to time-honored traditions.
The Montreal-based filmmaker Stacey Tenenbaum‘s joyful film The Art of the Shine, which aired on PBS, took the director all over the world, from New York to Toronto, Paris to La Paz, Bolivia, to look ...
The average person enjoys hearing the sound of an organ rather than wondering what it’s made of. The work of the late Jerome Markowitz made that music more rich than imagined. In fact, Markowitz ...
The college students have different goals and plans as they learn to play what Mozart called the “King of the Instruments.” One Trinity College student wants to become a full-time organist, playing in ...
Students involved in Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Organ Studio had chances to try out instruments at an Armstrong County church, then at notable locations in Connecticut and New York City.
MACUNGIE, Pa. - Allen Organ in Macungie is celebrating 85 years in business in the Lehigh Valley. It was founded in 1937 by Jerome Markowitz, who created the first electronic analogue organ. "Analogue ...