Church organs may be mechanically complicated and super old-school, but they share something in common with the earliest computer sound chips. In theory, and largely in practice, they produce very ...
For sheer scale and complexity though, you can’t beat pipe organs. [Rob Scallon] visited the Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago to look at their massive pipe organ which boasts over 8000 ...
An organ-procurement group in Kentucky pressured its personnel to retrieve organs from a hospital patient who was awake and ...
Brian Brighton, 82, from Belmont in Durham, began his career at local organ builder Nelson & Co as an apprentice back in 1956, aged 15. This week, he returned to St Elizabeth Church at ...
Politician Robert Lowe (later created Viscount Sherbrooke) has a bust in the eastern porch of St Margaret's Church Westminster. The Latin inscription on one side wall can be translated: This porch is ...
Elton John is still standing. The 77-year-old singer openly joked about his many health issues in a speech at the premiere of his new documentary, “Elton John: Never Too Late,” at the New York ...
Music from the organ in St. Paul’s United Church will flow through the building for the last time Friday evening.
Churches had been advised against playing organs like the one in Pembrokeshire's St David's Cathedral Advice against organists playing their instruments in church because they could spread ...
An appeal has been launched to raise £200,000 to save a church organ in West Cumbria. The pipe organ at Our Lady Star of the Sea and St Michael's Church is in need of repairs with a team of local ...
A memorial to Alfred, Viscount Milner can be found on the wall of the south aisle of Henry VII's chapel in Westminster Abbey. This is a mural Hoptonwood limestone roundel with a laurel leaf border ...