“This is a sound like no other,” remarked Los Angeles-based organist Mark Herman before he started a program that featured Tin Pan Alley melodies, Broadway songs, and other early 20th-century tunes.
Sitting in the basement of LIU Brooklyn is the monstrous Wurlitzer 4/26 orchestral organ. Built in 1928, this model is 100% original and only one of two still left in operation, the other sitting in ...
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 ...
In the history of American culture, few sounds are as closely tied to the idea of entertainment as the theater pipe organ. At once nostalgic and timeless, it is often referred to as “the king of ...
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 ...
The “Mighty Wurlitzer” organ at the Castro Theatre is not actually a Wurlitzer organ. It hasn’t been one since 2015, when the theater’s genuine Rudolph Wurlitzer Company organ was deemed too ...
After a painstaking restoration that required more than two years and a half-million dollars, the Orpheum’s historic Wurlitzer organ returns to action Thursday night in a concert that is part ...
The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. CEDAR RAPIDS - When the Paramount Theatre reopens in 2012, the organ pipes will be singing the same old ...
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