The first pieces of a massive, historic theater pipe organ built more than 90 years ago have been installed at Rochester Institute of Technology’s music performance theater, currently under ...
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A massive pipe organ that underscored the drama and comedy of silent movies with live music in Detroit's ornate Hollywood Theatre nearly a century ago was dismantled into thousands ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nearly 40 years ago, Mike Pedersen fulfilled a lifelong dream to restore a pipe organ. Since then, he's hosted holiday carolers in ...
In the history of American culture, few sounds are as closely tied to the idea of entertainment as the theater pipe organ. At once nostalgic and timeless, it is often referred to as “the king of ...
Christopher Nordwall and a co-worker gave a thorough tuneup to the 1928 Kimball Theatre Pipe Organ in the atrium of the State Office Building less than two years ago. But when he returned Thursday ...
Last March, the Balboa Theatre in San Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter marked its 100th anniversary. But one of the theater’s slightly younger historic features will be the centerpiece of the new Silent Movie ...
(LEX 18) — Before the era of high-tech movie magic with IMAX and surround sound, going to the theater was a whole different experience. In the early 1900s, silent films relied on live pit orchestras ...
Notre Dame’s famed 8,000-pipe organ, known as the voice and soul of the beloved cathedral, will be “revived” after a five-year absence. Notre Dame’s famed 8,000-pipe organ, known as the voice and soul ...