New Recitals Added - Free State Theatre Organ Society

If you're in Catonsville, MD and interested in hearing a theatre organ, check out the Free State Theatre Organ Society's instrument located in the Spring Grove Hospital Center's Rice Auditorium.

FSTOS recitals are now in the pipe organ recital calendar at right.

Lots more coming up, including a FSTOS recital this Sunday, December 5. Before that, National City Christian continues its recital series at 12:15pm this Friday with NCCC Director of Music Charles Miller at the console.

Image of Shady Grove Hospital Center's Rice Auditorium via FSTOS website.

NYC Gets its Concert Hall Pipes Back

The Big Apple is getting its groove back in the pipe organ world.

According to NYT, the Kuhn instrument is currently the only pipe organ in any major NYC concert hall. It was recently reinstalled and rededicated in Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center.

Reporter James Oestreich says, "Now here it was, on Tuesday evening, restored and fitted out with the latest technology to make it more user friendly and give it greater sonic heft."

Now...we'll see if Lincoln Center makes it easy to go hear it. Image from Nils Olander via Wikicommons.

2011 Organ Historical Society Convention Coming to D.C.

New update in the pipe organ recital calendar this week.

The 2011 annual convention of the Organ Historical Society is coming to Washington, D.C. June 27-July 1, 2011.

No word yet on which instruments will be featured - although an OHS Tracker ad for the convention shows an image of the 1969 Reiger at All Souls Unitarian Church in D.C. We'll be sure to publicize details when OHS does.

Pittsburgh was home to the 2010 convention. Click here to see that convention's website.

Image at left is the front cover of this month's OHS journal, The Tracker. It's a gut-wrenching image of the fire-damaged 1918 J.W. Steere & Son Opus 700 at the Baptist Temple in Brooklyn, NY.

Pipe Organ Recital Calendar Updated

Lots more pipe organ recitals for the Washington, D.C. / Northern Virginia / Maryland region added to the calendar this week. Take a look at the right.

In particular...NOVA's local chapter of the American Guild of Organists has a Member Recital Tuesday at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Alexandria.

St. Luke's McLean has a recital at 1 on Wednesday. National City Christian continues their recital series this Friday at 12:15. And the National Cathedral's 10,000 pipes get a workout this Sunday the 21st.

For you Washington, D.C. region theatre organ enthusiasts, head to Frederick, MD to hear the Mighty Wurlitzer at the Weinberg on Saturday. Plus, Richmond's Byrd Theatre always plays its Wurlitzer before the evening movie.

Impromptu Hallelujah Chorus!

Good times with the Wanamaker Organ at Macy's Philadelphia!

Courtesy The Frisky.

Largest Pipe Organ In China