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 ...

You can imagine the scene at the Kentucky Theatre when it first opened its doors in 1922: A silent film debuts as a Wurlitzer ...

NEW BEDFORD — Technology comes and goes, but some things are irreplaceable. A century after it was first installed, the historic Wurlitzer theater organ that calls the Zeiterion home will be preserved ...

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 ...

If you saw a movie Saturday night at the Oriental, the biggest story wasn't what you saw onscreen but what you heard before the film: The popular Kimball theatre organ played its final show in the ...

CEDAR RAPIDS - Cedar Rapids' historic theater pipe organs were silenced by the floods of 2008, but not forever. Both instruments, which debuted in 1928 in the Paramount Theatre and the Iowa Theatre ...

This article, which first ran in Oct. 25, 2023, has been updated. After waiting five years, Milwaukee filmgoers finally got a chance in November to hear the restored 1925 Wurlitzer three-manual ...

Photo by Janelle Patterson Different colored stops control how a theater organist creates the live sound effects and accompaniment for movies and shows. MARIETTA – Horns, whistles, cymbals and strings ...

Visalia Fox Theatre’s wish to pay tribute to long-time organist Pete Sweeney and an idea by two local professional musicians to use the organ in a unique concert will come together in perfect ...