Garth Hudson, Organist for The Band, Dies at 87
The Canadian virtuoso, known for his solo on “Chest Fever,” gave the group a “sound twice as big” and his mates music lessons ...
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UF celebrates 100-year-old pipe organ with symphonies, slapstick comedy
UF community members flocked to a four-day kickoff to UF’s Pipe Organ Centennial from Jan. 23 to Jan. 26, commemorating the ...
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Hear performances from the UAB Department of Music this spring
The UAB Piano Series will present Fei-Fei Dong on March 23, plus the PRISM concert March 31 will showcase students and ...
The story of the Köln Concert: The legendary solo piano album at 50
The journey by car was long and made even worse by back pain. Then, the piano on stage was unplayable. On January 24, 1975, ...
University of Florida Pipe Organ Centennial event to kick off year-long celebration of music
The pipe organ inside the University Auditorium is named in honor of Dr. Andrew Anderson, who in 1924 donated $50,000 toward its installation.
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Kansas City's most unusual Super Bowl tradition, an organ concert, began by accident
A scheduling snafu for organist Jan Kraybill started an unique tradition — a Super Bowl Sunday organ concert — that's lasted 25 years.
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Inside Job: A Rare Look At Walt Disney Concert Hall's Pipe Organ
I met Philip Allen Smith, the organ conservator for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, at Walt Disney Concert Hall on a weekday ... Looking over the machine—a piano desk-like structure with enough ...