In Bach's era, the pipe organ was one of the world's most technologically advanced instruments. Stefano Bianchetti/Corbis via Getty Images Imagine a grand house on a hill, after dark on an autumn ...

To some lovers of classical sounds, organ music seems irremediably goyish, despite outstanding achievements by such Jewish composers as Aaron Copland and Arnold Schoenberg in writing for the so-called ...

Someone in our old Geezer Group mentioned seeing on TV about a rural fellow, Mike Pederson who lived in Nora, S.D., ...

We associate the pipe organ with Johann Sebastian Bach and other Baroque masters. But, since the mid-14th century, there has been an unbroken stream of notated organ music, making it the most enduring ...

Snow College has received a significant gift from The Ennoble Foundation that will expand organ music education for students ...

The first mechanical pipe organ, a water-driven monster called a hydraulus, so awed the ancients that they enshrined it in a temple of Venus. A 5th century organ at Jerusalem thundered forth such a ...

A century ago, American industrialist and philanthropist Pierre du Pont put his fortune to work planting an elaborate garden in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. Not only were there landscaped grounds and ...

In a holiday-themed show on Friday, T.J. Duffy said goodbye to a packed audience filled with longtime listeners.

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County officials have been fighting for years over what to do with a historic instrument. "It's a piece of history, but ...

The Centennial Organ was so named because of its construction during Chico State University’s 100-year-anniversary. It graced the stage at the university’s Harlen Adams Theatre since the late 1980s.

I often talk about my dad being 99, and good for him, but it is also true that my mother succumbed to a brain tumor in her late sixties. It came on suddenly, progressed rapidly and devastated the ...