SAMOHI — The walls of Barnum Hall will soon echo with the sound of music, organ music to be exact. Installation began Saturday of a 1920s Wurlitzer organ donated to the recently renovated Santa Monica ...
Last March, the Balboa Theatre in San Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter marked its 100th anniversary. But one of the theater’s slightly younger historic features will be the centerpiece of the new Silent Movie ...
Michael Thomas Britt, a revered church musician and choir director who composed organ accompaniments to 1920s silent films, died of complications from acute respiratory distress syndrome Sept. 14 at ...
From “The Wizard of Oz” to “Jaws” to 1920s silent movies with live organ music, the historic movie house will resume its showing of classics. Bert Lahr as the Cowardly Lion, Ray Bolger as the ...