Mozart evidently once commented to the German piano maker Johann Andreas Stein, “To my eyes and ears, the organ will ever be the King of Instruments.”  Honoré Balzac, the psychologically-tangled French novelist was equally enthusiastic and wrote,

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 music, as well as being very handy with electronics and ...

Charlie Chaplin is precariously perched atop a ladder. His character, an assistant at a pawnshop, attempts to polish the storefront. As the ladder rocks back and forth in increasingly wider swings, an organ plays wavering glissandos to match. Chaplin and ...

Director Stacey Tenenbaum’s “Pipe Dreams,” is an eccentric film about a quirky subject: Organists, the ones who play Bach on apartment-sized instruments, with multiple keyboards, multiple sets of stops (i.e. tone controls) and a full flight of pedals.

What is old can be new again, in the right hands and under the right feet. For example, the pipe organ. With origins in ancient Greece, it is associated today mostly with church music and horror films. Pipe organs are big, expensive, and complicated.

She takes the 21 steps up the narrow staircase to the balcony of Canoga Park Lutheran Church to perform one final song on the pipe organ she’s played almost every Sunday since the church opened in 1960. Christine Benich is 97 years old, but you’d never ...

The historic Temple Theater in Meridian hosts movies and live events for Lauderdale County and features a restored grand theater organ. We travel to Rose Hill Missionary Baptist Church to talk with parishioners about its Möller Pipe Organ. We meet organ ...

The sound of an organ is triumphant when the "Wedding March" shakes a sanctuary, and whimsical from the bygone days of "pizza and pipes," and yet the chords of "A Whiter Shade of Pale" are somber and wistful. They're instrumental instruments: Can you ...

For a year now, Adrian Binkley has gone into more than 30 churches around Philadelphia, hunting for sound. Binkley, a student of the organ at the Curtis Institute of Music, was tapped to be part of the Partners for Sacred Places survey of the city’s ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Organ lovers hope the rebuilt hall will return a pipe organ to the New York Philharmonic’s home. But space is tight. By Michael Cooper When long-awaited drawings of the new plan to rebuild David Geffen ...