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For three years, its big tin Cheshire grin has taunted me — its 89 pipes looming over the Kennedy Center Concert Hall like a silent stand of gleaming trees. I’ve been able to hear the ...
The organ’s 10,000-plus wooden and metal pipes provided the soundtrack to some of the most memorable events in Washington National Cathedral’s history: the funerals of Presidents Dwight D ...
It's been renovated several times before, and now another round of work is needed. Some of the organ's 1,500 pipes, which go up in size to 32 feet, no longer function as they should, and some of ...
At 97-years-old and nearly blind, she played her pipe organ like a rock star on her way to a Grammy. Dennis McCarthy’s column runs on Sunday. He can be reached at dmccarthynews@gmail.com.
No, not that kind of organ. By Chris Almeida When I lived in Chicago, my wife and I would, whenever we could, see movies at a theater called the Music Box. Opened in 1929, the main auditorium has ...
Lewiston Methodists are closing their Broadview church and don't plan on taking century-old pipe organ, so Sunday will be its ...
The pipe organ tends to be thought of as a fusty relic of classical music. But NPR's Tom Huizenga wants to change your mind about the instrument with help from a new album by organist James McVinnie.
Eaton programs a couple organ concerts a year so the public can hear the instrument. He says the organ is known internationally. People come to see it even when there is no concert, just to stand in ...
It would be the largest theater pipe organ in New York State, if not for the one in Radio City Music Hall. It is larger than the ones inside Shea's Performing Arts Center and the Riviera Theatre ...
Home Buying Pipe organ house in Western Mass. sounds the right note The Hampden property also comes with two bedrooms, two bathrooms, and more than an acre of land.
The pipe organ (built in 1962) at St. Albans Cathedral, north of London, has 4,500 pipes. McVinnie was an organist at St. Albans in his teens. David Kelsall hide caption ...
Here, the droning and tolling sound of the pipe organ becomes a dazzling stand-in for modern electronics. McVinnie's Dreamcatcher is a smartly curated album, ...