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 ...

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 ...

Dennis Wolkowicz was a self-taught pipe organist and silent film aficionado who ran two Northwest Side theaters, the Gateway and the Portage, for many years and was active in efforts to restore the ...

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 ...

ANN ARBOR, MI — Andrew Rogers filled the main room of the Michigan Theater with the powerful and playful tones of the Barton Theatre Pipe Organ for nearly two decades. He was beloved not only for his ...

The massive instrument is the brainchild of Paul Woelbing. When Woelbing is asked why he put the theater organ together, he simply says, "Because I can." "My name is Paul Woelbing," Woelbing said as ...

"The picture is one of the best ever shown in Memphis, barring none," raved a movie reviewer credited as "A.M.D." in the Feb. 2, 1926, edition of The Commercial ...

The theater pipe organ that Dorothy and Lee Smith purchased approximately 24 years ago has a new sound to it. In 1980, when the couple bought an unplayable 1920s-era pipe organ for $3,500, their hope ...

For over half a century, Old Town Music Hall has performed live musical accompaniments to silent films, cartoons, and sing-alongs, while housing their behemoth mainstay, the Mighty Wurlitzer theater ...