When you think about Shea’s Performing Arts Center (PAC), you might not associate it with the Mighty Wurlitzer Organ. But that’s about to change, as the theater embarks upon a significant restoration ...
The 1928 Wurlitzer Opus 1787 organ was installed at the Mayfield Theatre in Troy, Ohio, in 1928. This 1928 Wurlitzer pipe organ can be yours for the right price. Media Heritage, the local nonprofit ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Orpheum’s 90-year-old ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Shea's Performing Arts Center has one of the largest Mighty Wurlitzer organs in the country, but it is in need of restoration. To help restore this almost 100 year old organ, The ...
In the history of the club, President Eleanor Tasker felt that one project stood out from the rest as most memorable; that of saving the magnificent pipe organ from the old Orpheum Theater and having ...
When composer Nathan Barr found the instrument he had been looking for, he built a studio for it. Barr (“True Blood,” “The Americans”) collects unusual musical devices, especially mechanical ones from ...
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 ...
A stately 1875 Victorian home has a surprising rear wing: a 2,250-square-foot music room crowded with pianos and Wurlitzer pipe organs. A stately 1875 Victorian home in Price Hill has a surprising ...
The top movie at the box office last weekend was the House with a Clock in its Walls, the family-friendly gothic-horror movie starring Jack Black and Cate Blanchett. If you bought a ticket, you ...
The Alabama Theatre’s Mighty Wurlitzer pipe organ is back in Birmingham and is ready to rock. The beloved instrument, affectionately known as “Big Bertha,” was reinstalled in the downtown theater on ...