When people see the new four-story organ at First Community Church’s North Campus, they often think that the pipes they see are solely responsible for making the instrument’s rich sound. But Dominik ...
INVER GROVE HEIGHTS (AP) -- For Vern Krech, it's like saying goodbye to an old friend. A lifelong member of Old Emanuel Lutheran Church in Inver Grove Heights, Krech, 67, is preparing to bid farewell ...
FAYETTEVILLE -- Revving motorcycles, live bands and the calling of the Hogs are routinely heard in downtown Fayetteville, depending on the time of year. Now, the sound of 3,500 wind-blown pipes is ...
This is no pipe dream! Pipe organ aficionados from across the globe are refusing to let the music die at Our Lady of Refuge Church in Flatbush. Midwood native Joe Vitacco is spearheading an ...
Bruce Stavem remembers how he felt when he become an organist for Wooddale Church and got a chance to play its Visser-Rowland pipe organ. This organ is a special instrument, Stavem said. According to ...
Few instruments stick around for 100 years, and fewer still warrant a celebration, but that’s precisely what’s happening Saturday night at Rifle United Methodist Presbyterian Church for its historic ...
PORTSMOUTH — An 800-pipe organ, that for decades was played in the loft of the now-demolished St. James Church, was adopted before it too was demolished, and was shipped to China, where it's being ...
John Nordlie's musical artistry is unique in this era of music streaming and digital downloads. Part craftsman, part engineer, part dreamer, Nordlie has meticulously produced more than 50 pipe organs, ...
The organ — whether concert hall or church variety — has long shown signs of becoming an endangered species. Churches have been dumping their instruments for years, and for a while the organ became so ...