For nearly five years Martin Pasi has been enveloped in the art and craft of creating his Opus XIX, the new organ at the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart. With a team of five metal and wood workers, ...

As the first sonorous notes burst from the pipe organ at Calvary Presbyterian Church on Sunday morning, it was easy to imagine the sound had boomed inside the Alexandria, Va., church since the ...

As a child, I had a cassette tape called “The Sounds of Halloween.” It had all the creepy sound effects one would expect: creaking doors, moaning ghosts, eerie laughs, a Dracula voice, and a few ...

The pipe organ, with its strong timber base and towering metal pipes, stands as a bastion in concert halls and church sanctuaries. Even when not in use, the pipe organ affects the acoustical ...

The largest musical instrument in the world is a harmonious fusion of nature and human engineering. Located in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, the Great Stalacpipe Organ lies deep within the largest ...

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 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 ...

Majestic musical tones swelling from a pipe organ, especially during the holidays, can evoke reverence, memories of past celebrations or a sense of community and connection to time-honored traditions.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) – It's 1920 all over again at the Fox Theater. Yes, we know the theater didn't open until 1930, but we ...

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 ...

The pipe organ is typically associated with formal concert halls, church music and traditional works by Baroque composers like Bach. But one musician, Anna Lapwood, is broadening the instrument’s ...