I’ll never forget an experience I had some years ago while sight-seeing in Paris. I found myself standing on the threshold of the great Cathedral of Notre Dame on the First Sunday of Advent. As I ...

Pipe organs are often called the king of instruments. The newly completed one in the Cathedral of St. Joseph towers over the rows of pews, adorned with several wood carvings. It has 183 keys across ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X We Don’t Deserve Dogs. The New Haven Documentary Film Festival kicks off the weekend portion of ...

Houston Early Music's season opening concert features two of the Renaissance era's most important instruments: the organ and the cornetto. Acclaimed as the “Orfeo of the Cornetto,” Bruce Dickey ...

Now in its 12th edition, the Malta International Organ Festival returns from November 20 to December 7, once again transforming churches and historic spaces across Malta and Gozo into grand stages for ...

NORTHUMBERLAND — Susan Hegberg said the pipe organ is often recognized as the “king of instruments.” The 12-foot-tall organ at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church certainly seems to earn that moniker. Its ...

Father Jeremy Secrist of St. Peter Church in Jefferson City, Mo., poses for a photo next to the organ console in the choir Oct. 20, 2019. Also pictured are visiting organist Horst Buchholz, visiting ...

Rev. ed. of: The king of instruments : how churches came to have organs. London : SPCK, 1993. The organ is the largest instrument with the largest repertory and the greatest influence on Western music ...

"The king of instruments" - Mozart's assessment, and who can argue with him? - used to be routinely found in concert halls and theaters, but is now relegated almost exclusively to houses of worship.

It tends to get pigeonholed as a worship instrument, its grand volume sweeping over weak or silent voices in sleepy congregations. Or else it evokes the ballpark, or a creepy haunted house. Truth be ...