Estimates for installing Hoyt Sherman Theater's long-awaited pipe organ have come in at $187,000, Robert Warren, the venue's ...
The first pieces of a massive, historic theater pipe organ built more than 90 years ago have been installed at Rochester Institute of Technology’s music performance theater, currently under ...
The massive instrument is the brainchild of Paul Woelbing. When Woelbing is asked why he put the theater organ together, he simply says, "Because I can." "My name is Paul Woelbing," Woelbing said as ...
Christopher Nordwall and a co-worker gave a thorough tuneup to the 1928 Kimball Theatre Pipe Organ in the atrium of the State Office Building less than two years ago. But when he returned Thursday ...
MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- A historical organ at Milwaukee's Oriental Theatre is making a comeback. The theatre says the installation and restoration of the 94-year-old organ has been over five years in ...
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A massive pipe organ that underscored the drama and comedy of silent movies with live music in Detroit's ornate Hollywood Theatre nearly a century ago was dismantled into thousands ...
Last March, the Balboa Theatre in San Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter marked its 100th anniversary. But one of the theater’s slightly younger historic features will be the centerpiece of the new Silent Movie ...
On a recent Sunday night in West Seattle, people gathered to hear the sound of an era long gone. Accompanying a screening of the 1924 silent movie “Peter Pan” at Kenyon Hall, musician Dennis James ...
J. Allan MacKinnon, with help from his wife, removed the tent-sized protective cover that’s been draped nearly non-step for three years over the 1928 Kimball Theatre Pipe Organ at the State Office ...
And I'm Audie Cornish. The Academy Awards will be handed out this weekend. With the silent film, "The Artist," in the running for Best Picture, we're looking back today to the days of the mighty ...