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 ...

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 ...

History of the organ originally designed by George Ashdown Audsley, built by Murray M. Harris and the Los Angeles Art Organ Co. with additions made by Rodman Wanamaker, William Boone Fleming and the ...

Some interesting music filled the air during a four-hour stretch on the afternoon of Sept. 18 at the Lake County History Center in Painesville Township. A band-organ rally was held on the grounds of ...

As a historian of Philadelphia and historic preservation, I recognize the panic as a familiar response to the economic changes that have been shaping the city for 75 years. As city leaders have ...

First Congregational Church of Elgin will hold a concert Tuesday to commemorate the 130th anniversary of its massive pipe organ, an instrument so impressive that just moving it into the building made ...

ANN ARBOR, MI -- With every keystroke of the Barton pipe organ, David Hufford fills the Michigan Theater with the sound of musical history. It has been nearly 50 years that the theater’s pipe organ ...

On May 20, 2025, the team behind the Resound project achieved a milestone in Jerusalem: several original pipes of a medieval organ emitted sound without restoration. The instrument came back to life ...

The Centennial Organ was so named because of its construction during Chico State University’s 100-year-anniversary. It graced the stage at the university’s Harlen Adams Theatre since the late 1980s.