MANITOWOC — At a time when many churches have moved to electric guitars and praise bands, one local church is paying big bucks to keep a beloved pipe organ — and its traditional sound — in good ...
She likes that pipe organs can provide soft, prayerful music, but with the flick of some stops and the control of volume by the foot pedals, the music can swell to robust, loud music appropriate for ...
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EVANSVILLE, Ind. — A German immigrant brought music to Evansville back in the mid-1800s. More specifically, Edmund Giesecke arrived to the River City with a talent, a talent for creating pipe organs.
The first mechanical pipe organ, a water-driven monster called a hydraulus, so awed the ancients that they enshrined it in a temple of Venus. A 5th century organ at Jerusalem thundered forth such a ...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — After six decades of devotion to the organ, Maestro Leo Krämer treats the instrument like an extension of himself. He doesn't even need to lay hands on it to hear in his mind how a ...
“That’s why it’s called an organ,” Krämer said. “Because it’s alive.” The 81-year-old German director and organist was the latest guest star of Mexico City’s Catholic cathedral, where he recently ...
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