Stationed in Music Hall’s ballroom is an instrument few know about: the Wurlitzer organ—a special type of theater organ manufactured by the renowned Cincinnati-based Wurlitzer Company to accompany ...

The Smithsonian's Wurlitzer (its console above, with the Star-Spangled Banner) likely played the national anthem before movies. Eric Long/National Musuem of American History, SI Of all the musical ...

When you think about Shea’s Performing Arts Center (PAC), you might not associate it with the Mighty Wurlitzer Organ. But that’s about to change, as the theater embarks upon a significant restoration ...

BRECKSVILLE, OH (WOIO) - Harold Wright bought his Brecksville home knowing he wanted it to be a musical space. “When I bought the house, it was with the intention of installing something,” Wright said ...

THIS THEATRE opening must be the bee’s knees if they’re making Seattle’s mayor, Bertha Knight Landes, pay 50 cents to get in, just like everyone else. Newspaper photographers are asking her to pose ...

GEDDES, N.Y. — Take a trip to the Empire Theatre at the New York State Fairgrounds and you will soon find yourself surrounded by the sounds of a bygone era. "It's a unique sound," Denny Randall, from ...

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Nigel Ogden, who has died aged 71, presented The Organist Entertains for 38 of the show’s 49-year run, offering Radio 2 listeners a wide variety of popular and light classical music whether from a ...

Reading Rudolph Wurlitzer’s novels is like watching a road movie backward. In his 1969 underground classic, “Nog,” the narrator drifts across an amorphous terrain on which his shifting identity molds ...

The Smithsonian's Wurlitzer (its console above, with the Star-Spangled Banner) likely played the national anthem before movies. Eric Long/National Musuem of American History, SI Of all the musical ...