Jonny Greenwood, Radiohead and The Smile's resident musical polymath, has been detailing another current project and preoccupation - touring Italy, documenting and playing historic church organs. On ...

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 ...

In all its grandeur, the organ produces a deep, rich sound when graced by a musician’s hands and feet. Local organ enthusiasts Punch G.F. Williamson and Rita Krusemark are offering a series of free ...

She takes the 21 steps up the narrow staircase to the balcony of Canoga Park Lutheran Church to perform one final song on the pipe organ she’s played almost every Sunday since the church opened in ...

Paul Eaton, chair of fine arts at Girard College, plays the organ in the college chapel. (Emma Lee/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to ...

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 ...

Even as church attendance declines nationwide and pipe organs fall silent in many sanctuaries, Spokane has managed to keep the music alive. The city’s community of organists – supported by groups like ...

The perfect Easter story fell right into our laps this year. It's a story that doesn't come up often, though − every 100 to 150 years, give or take. I was the Enquirer reporter who volunteered to ...

A feature story by the late Paul Sweitzer, long-time staff reporter for the Arizona Daily Sun, described Flagstaff’s Episcopal Church of the Epiphany as “The Little Stone Church on the Hill.” Those ...

A bird’s-eye view of the organ removal project at University Place Christian Church. Crews from Buzard Pipe Organ Builders disassemble and pack up the organ at University Place Christian Church in ...