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The craft and power of the pipe organ

A look at the history and craftsmanship behind pipe organs built by Henry Willis and Sons.
She likes that pipe organs can provide soft, prayerful music, but with the flick of some stops and the control of volume by the foot pedals, the music can swell to robust, loud music appropriate for ...
The pipe organ. No harmonica, now is it? It can be as big as a bus, a building, and produce a massive sound. (SOUNDBITE OF FRANK MARTIN'S "PRELUDE NO. 3") SIMON: Let us introduce Michael Barone, host ...
Pipe organ music will celebrate Halloween this weekend in Port Townsend and Port Angeles. Pipe Screams is a Halloween pops concert featuring organists in costume from across the North Olympic ...
One of the most unique concerts I played in 2022 took place at the Lake Leelenau RV Park in northern Michigan. The owner of this park, a kindly widower in his 80s, is a lover of pipe organs and organ ...
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 ...
PORT ANGELES — Balint Karosi will perform a recital of pipe organ music by J.S. Bach at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church. The free program is part of the new Margaret Graebner Series for ...
If you haven’t experienced the pipe organ in the Brigham Young University Music Building yet, you’re in for a treat. With 4,613 pipes and 81 ranks (sets of pipes), it’s the third-largest organ in Utah ...
Colin MacKnight, director of music at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Little Rock, is a relative newcomer to the pipe organ. He didn't begin playing the instrument until he was 16 years old. "I sort of ...
Just over 50 years ago, a music teacher in Wesley College, Dublin, set himself the challenge to beat the Guinness World Record. As a fundraising effort for a new pipe organ for the school, it was ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Opus 100, a world-class organ in the BYU Music Building, has two consoles where organists can play from. | BYU BYU’s new music ...