If you were a high-roller in the early 20th century, you may well have acquired an Aeolian pipe organ for your palatial home. The Aeolian Company of New York installed its signature organs in “the ...
Read the history of organ music at Trinity Episcopal Church and there’s so much material there, you could write a sequel to “Under the Greenwood Tree,” Thomas Hardy’s novel set in mid-19th-century ...
WORCESTER - When the Worcester Red Sox had its third season’s home opener on March 31 at Polar Park, a well-regarded rookie of the team made his debut. He’s not your typical team player. He’s short ...
Organists Bryan Poyzer and Elliot Sander watch the action at Newman Outdoor Field as the RedHawks host the Sioux Falls Canaries.
Railroad tycoon Henry Flagler was a music-loving man who loved that Whitehall, his Palm Beach mansion, included a music room ...
CHICO — Dick Emmons has been an organist all his life, so in the 1987 he decided that he and his wife Leona needed a pipe organ in their house. “I figured OK, somebody buys a trumpet so they can ...
The first mechanical pipe organ, a water-driven monster called a hydraulus, so awed the ancients that they enshrined it in a temple of Venus. A 5th century organ at Jerusalem thundered forth such a ...
The Hammond electronic organ was developed with churches in mind, as a lower-cost alternative to pipe organs. But in Philadelphia, a keyboard player named Jimmy Smith was inspired by early jazz ...
I often talk about my dad being 99, and good for him, but it is also true that my mother succumbed to a brain tumor in her late sixties. It came on suddenly, progressed rapidly and devastated the ...
For more than 40 years, the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., has welcomed visitors to its annual summer organ recital series, providing a unique ...
The sun is setting behind the left field stands at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, and the not-too-distant San Gabriel mountains are disappearing into a purple twilight mist beyond center field. It’s ...