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 Zeiterion Performing Arts Center, special to The Herald News NEW BEDFORD — Technology comes and goes, but some things are irreplaceable. A century after it was first installed, the historic ...

Only ardent music historians know the difference between a portative organ, a small medieval instrument on which only a single melodic line could be played, and a positive organ, a larger device from ...

ONGOING AND AN ORGAN AT SAINT CECILIA CATHEDRAL IS CELEBRATING ITS 20TH ANNIVERSARY. BUT THE THING THAT MAKES THIS ORGAN DIFFERENT IS ITS HISTORICAL TIE TO THE BELIEF AND CULTURE. THE ORGAN WAS BUILT ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Cleveland Orchestra has intervened. The risk of TOF – total organ failure – has been averted. Following significant renovation to its pipe organ this summer, the Cleveland ...

PARIS - From the moment the teenage musician caught sight of the organ in France’s most famous cathedral, he knew where he wanted to play. In the five decades since, Philippe Lefebvre has traveled the ...

Information or research assistance regarding organ design and history is frequently requested from the Smithsonian Institution. The following information has been prepared to assist those interested ...

“Famous instrument of Tourtelotte Park has been hauled away,” lamented the Aspen Daily Times on Nov. 20, 1895. “Grief has struck the inhabitants of Tourtelotte Park. The cause of the present wailing ...

John Nordlie's musical artistry is unique in this era of music streaming and digital downloads. Part craftsman, part engineer, part dreamer, Nordlie has meticulously produced more than 50 pipe organs, ...

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 ...