Stationed in Music Hall’s ballroom is an instrument few know about: the Wurlitzer organ—a special type of theater organ manufactured by the renowned Cincinnati-based Wurlitzer Company to accompany ...
The Smithsonian's Wurlitzer (its console above, with the Star-Spangled Banner) likely played the national anthem before movies. Eric Long/National Musuem of American History, SI Of all the musical ...
The Providence Performing Arts Center‘s historic “Mighty Wurlitzer” organ is getting a major face lift. PPAC’s President and ...
THIS THEATRE opening must be the bee’s knees if they’re making Seattle’s mayor, Bertha Knight Landes, pay 50 cents to get in, just like everyone else. Newspaper photographers are asking her to pose ...
On Saturday, Fox Tucson Theatre will resurrect a signature piece of its early entertainment history: the Mighty Wurlitzer. The massive theater organ, equipped with thousands of moving parts, including ...
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(LEX 18) — Before the era of high-tech movie magic with IMAX and surround sound, going to the theater was a whole different experience. In the early 1900s, silent films relied on live pit orchestras ...
The Alabama Theatre’s Mighty Wurlitzer pipe organ has left the building. But fans of the beloved instrument needn’t fret. The organ, affectionately known as “Big Bertha,” will be back at the theater ...
One of the last surviving Wurlitzer organs in the country, which once entertained crowds at a posh Baltimore movie theater, will return to a downtown stage after a 42-year hiatus in the suburbs. The ...
Reading Rudolph Wurlitzer’s novels is like watching a road movie backward. In his 1969 underground classic, “Nog,” the narrator drifts across an amorphous terrain on which his shifting identity molds ...
The Smithsonian's Wurlitzer (its console above, with the Star-Spangled Banner) likely played the national anthem before movies. Eric Long/National Musuem of American History, SI Of all the musical ...
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