Dennis Wolkowicz was a self-taught pipe organist and silent film aficionado who ran two Northwest Side theaters, the Gateway and the Portage, for many years and was active in efforts to restore the ...

Experienced organist Dave Moreno creates this whole chorus of sounds—everything from bangs and smashes to familiar tunes like “O Christmas Tree”—on a 1920s theater pipe organ. When you play the ...

During the silent era, thousands of movie-theatre organs raised their quirky, quavery voices, with the Mighty Wurlitzer being ...

Christopher Nordwall and a co-worker gave a thorough tuneup to the 1928 Kimball Theatre Pipe Organ in the atrium of the State Office Building less than two years ago. But when he returned Thursday ...

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 ...

Playing the State Office Building's rare organ, T.J. Duffy said goodbye to a packed audience filled with longtime listeners.

Aviators and theater organists have a strange symbiosis. “It’s something about those buttons,” said Carl Hackert, who plays Proctors’ Wurlitzer theater organ, known as Goldie. He also is the ...

The first pieces of a massive, historic theater pipe organ built more than 90 years ago have been installed at Rochester Institute of Technology’s music performance theater, currently under ...

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