Organ Library and Archives

02/06/2014

What, no ice organ!

Just outside of Luleå, Sweden, an Ice Orchestra made up of violins, celli and basses performs in a concert hall made entirely of ice.

01/13/2014

"The current restoration project includes re-establishing the organ’s "unique 1900s tonal style, its organ case and console, and augmenting its character with other vintage components, most notably from another of the oldest and most noted organs in the region from the Salt Lake Masonic Temple."

French novelist Honoré de Balzac said the organ is “the grandest, the most daring, the most magnificent of all instruments invented by human genius.” Mozart called it “the king of instruments.” Organ music, said British historian Thomas Carlyle, is like hearing “the morning stars sing together.” It…

01/13/2014

The Emperor of Instruments! I like the sound of that!

The Emperor, not the King

12/17/2013

While transferring manuscripts from the Douglas Rafter Collection, I found this ;)

12/11/2013

Utah church employs 'Crowd Funding' and in one week, over 56K was raised for organ restoration!

KUTV Salt Lake City is home to the oldest working pipe organ in three surrounding states. The musica

12/04/2013

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12/04/2013

The organ is charting new musical waters, check this out!

King Krule, Alice Smith, Swedish singer Anna von Hausswolff and more in this week's Pop Scene.

11/22/2013

Get your bidding paddles ready!

THE grand old pipe organ at the Barkly Street Uniting Church has sounded out in praise for 124 years.

11/22/2013

The Economist is giving a shout out to the King of Instruments!

AS A teenager, Nathan Laube dreamt of a church-music career in the "great Anglican tradition", as he puts it. But today, aged 25, the Chicago-born organ virtuoso is...

11/18/2013

Boston based Aeolian Skinner organ celebrated in Texas!

The East Texas Pipe Organ Festival featured Aeolian-Skinner instruments sold and voiced by Roy Perry.

11/06/2013

Sir Elton John paid for a pipe organ to be installed at the Royal Academy of Music! Did you know Elton John began classical organ at age 11?

Sir Elton John tells Andrew Marr why he has paid for a classical pipe organ to be installed at the Royal Academy of Music.

11/06/2013

I am not such a bad handy person, one new shelving unit assembled in only 2 hours! Only four more to go!