It is the most modern of early instruments. Mastering it requires effort and a great deal of passion. Five organists —ranging ...

Organs: the king of instruments, according to some. To be honest, the cult of the organ has never turned me on, with its cloistered virtuosos plying their trade in darkened cathedrals, reading their ...

A computerized organ that launched the digital music revolution, made by Allen Organ Co., is headed to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. The Digital Computer Organ, made in 1971, was the ...

Coined as the “king of instruments” by Mozart, the pipe organ has an extensive history behind its use and creation. It has undergone many transformations throughout the centuries, however, one thing ...

To some lovers of classical sounds, organ music seems irremediably goyish, despite outstanding achievements by such Jewish composers as Aaron Copland and Arnold Schoenberg in writing for the so-called ...

Younger readers may not recall the days when every mall had a music store — not the kind where tapes and LPs were sold, but the kind where you could buy instruments. These places inevitably had an ...

The organ is a keyboard instrument of one or more pipe divisions, each played with its own keyboard, played either with the hands on a keyboard or with the feet using pedals. History The organ is a ...

Stacy Tenenbaum’s film Pipe Dreams features four young organ players competing in the prestigious Canadian International Organ Competition, held every few years in Montreal. What’s striking is that ...

Students involved in Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Organ Studio had chances to try out instruments at an Armstrong County church, then at notable locations in Connecticut and New York City.

Allen Organ Co. crossed space-age technology with the centuries-old ring of a pipe organ, and the results are still reverberating 36 years later. Allen’s Digital Computer Organ, released in 1971, was ...