JERUSALEM (AP) — After 800 years of silence, a pipe organ that researchers say is the oldest in the Christian world roared back to life Tuesday, its ancient sound echoing through a monastery in ...

Conductor Benjamin Boyle turns the pages for organist John Walthausen as they prepare for the debut concert of the Church of the Gesu's restored pipe organ. (Peter Crimmins/ WHYY) From Philly and the ...

TROY — After a century of use, the carefully crafted wooden pipes that form the heart of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church’s symphonic-liturgical organ are being held together in place by duct tape until ...

She places her hands that sometimes still shake from nerves, thinks about the tempo, checks her sheet music and counts ...

In 2021, Holy Angels Catholic Church in Basehor, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City, celebrated the blessing of its newly installed Opus 5 organ originally created by Halbert Gober of Gober Organs.

She likes that pipe organs can provide soft, prayerful music, but with the flick of some stops and the control of volume by the foot pedals, the music can swell to robust, loud music appropriate for ...

FARGO — There are a hundred ways a town can be silent during a pandemic. No sounds of children in school. No sounds of laughter from a restaurant. No soundtracks from movies. On Sundays, no sounds of ...

Liturgical music seems to go in a different direction every decade or so. After the Second Vatican Council, the acoustic guitar came into favor. A generation later, the flowery “Kumbaya” aesthetic of ...

Messe solennelle Louis Vierne, Composer Monica Brett-Crowther, Mezzo soprano Robert Sharpe, Conductor Christopher Gray, Organ Messe basse Monica Brett-Crowther, Mezzo soprano Robert Sharpe, Conductor ...

A Greensburg man will debut a new organ at a Connellsville church next month as part of the parish’s 150th anniversary celebration. J. Christopher Pardini, director of music and liturgy at Blessed ...