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.

Carl Zacheis finally heard that beautiful, joyful noise he spent five years seeking. The sound that can only come from a finely crafted and tuned pipe organ. That was in September, when the new $1.3 ...

No, not that kind of organ. By Chris Almeida When I lived in Chicago, my wife and I would, whenever we could, see movies at a theater called the Music Box. Opened in 1929, the main auditorium has a ...

The monthly silent movie nights at the Arcada Theatre have gone even more silent — as in they are no longer scheduled at this time. Ron Onesti, in a salute to the St. Charles theater’s roots, has ...

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 ...

A handful of area churches are blessed to have pipe organs in their sanctuaries, but only First Baptist Church of Savannah on Chippewa Square has the oldest organ and the largest with more than 4,000 ...

Coined as the “king of instruments” by Mozart, the pipe organ has an extensive history behind its use and creation. It has undergone many transformations throughout the centuries, however, one thing ...

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 ...