The pipe organ, with its strong timber base and towering metal pipes, stands as a bastion in concert halls and church sanctuaries. Even when not in use, the pipe organ affects the acoustical ...

GLOUCESTER — The purpose of a pipe organ is to make sound at its most majestic. It’s the mighty fortress of music. How mighty? Two of the organs featured in “Breath of Life — C.B. Fisk, Designers & ...

For acclaimed pipe organist Peter Krasinski, sitting down at the console of an unfamiliar instrument is “almost like meeting someone new,” he says. He would know: Krasinski has played pipe organs all ...

A Providence church's organ restoration project reached a major milestone Tuesday, as thousands of restored and new organ pipes were delivered. In 2024, Grace Episcopal Church began restoring its ...

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. The pipe organ. No harmonica, now is it? It can ...

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 a ...

Steven Blackmon’s fingers danced across the organ keys as he joyfully played a snippet of Charles-Marie Widor’s “Toccata,” whose powerful but melodic notes floated through St. Charles Avenue ...

The appeal of rattling church rafters turned John Ahern toward the pipe organ. Granted, Ahern, 17, doesn’t want church walls to collapse when he plays chords during a hymn, but he likes the power. “I ...

FORESTVILLE (WLUK) -- It's been 20 years since the pipe organ at a Door County church has been played, but that will change this weekend. St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Forestville is hosting a hymn ...