Estimates for installing Hoyt Sherman Theater's long-awaited pipe organ have come in at $187,000, Robert Warren, the venue's ...

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 ...

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 ...

DETROIT (AP) — A massive pipe organ that underscored the drama and comedy of silent movies with live music in Detroit's ornate Hollywood Theatre nearly a century ago was dismantled into thousands of ...

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 ...

This article, which first ran in Oct. 25, 2023, has been updated. After waiting five years, Milwaukee filmgoers finally got a chance in November to hear the restored 1925 Wurlitzer three-manual ...

The historic Temple Theater in Meridian hosts movies and live events for Lauderdale County and features a restored grand theater organ. We travel to Rose Hill Missionary Baptist Church to talk with ...

Theater organists develop their own musical repertoires, rehearse with a film, then adapt to their audience. “It’s highly controlled improvisation,” Ball says. “Everything that happens in a good ...

For Matthew Fisher, getting to say yes to becoming the Tennessee Theatre’s associate house organist came after getting a few no’s regarding playing the same instrument as an enthusiastic young ...