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NPR's Scott Simon talks to Michael Barone, host of Pipedreams, a public radio program dedicated to the pipe organ and celebrating 40 years on the air. Accessibility links.
GARDEN GROVE, Calif. (AP) — 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 ...
Pipe organs give new meaning to the expression "the whole is more than the sum of its parts." As Eugenia Zukerman reported on CBS News Sunday Morning in January 2004, some 20,000 or so parts come ...
About 20 percent of Dobson’s 99th organ was in the shop when it burned, so crews in Lake City started all over on the instrument, which will be installed in St. James Church in Sydney, Australia.
“I’ve never heard this pipe organ sound the way it no doubt sounded when it was brand new,” he says. Donations are still being accepted by the church for its $100,000 fundraising campaign to ...
There’s no longer room for 22 boxes of LP classical albums (free to the right owners) and a two-manual Wurlitzer pipe organ (asking price $9,500).
The organ he is playing was once used to perform live radio programming on WCCO in its downtown Minneapolis studios. The Wurlitzer was moved to the Heights Theatre nearly 20 years ago to anchor ...
Since the late 1980s, the train station housing the Cincinnati Museum Center has been home to an enormous pipe organ. The first concert in the 1990s drew more than a thousand people.