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 ...

You can hear the lush music from the Wurlitzer theater pipe organ before you ever lay eyes upon it. Once you do encounter the magnificent console hidden inside the Immanuel Organ Gym off Pikes Peak ...

SEATTLE — It happens four times a year. A glorious time machine is taken out of storage and put on a lift. Covered by canvas, powered by hydraulics, the lift raises it up until it is almost level with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bill Field, who played a vintage Wurlitzer organ nearly every weekend for 52 years at Old Town Music Hall, the L.A. area’s longest ...

Grammy-winning Memphis music producer and engineer Matt Ross-Spang has worked with such artists as John Prine, Al Green and the Drive-By Truckers. But capturing the building-sized sound of the almost ...

"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 ...

Head to Music Hall for "Silent Movies Made Musical with the Mighty Wurlitzer" on Thursday, April 13. Head to Music Hall for "Silent Movies Made Musical with the Mighty Wurlitzer" on Thursday, April 13 ...

(LEX 18) — Before the era of high-tech movie magic with IMAX and surround sound, going to the theater was a whole different experience. In the early 1900s, silent films relied on live pit orchestras ...

El Segundo residents started agitating for a new theater after its original theater closed down after being condemned for unsafe conditions in 1919. Sam Gnerre E.L. McMurray took up the challenge, ...

OGDEN — An internationally acclaimed organist is set to bring an evening of music and nostalgia to Peery’s Egyptian Theater via the venue’s “Mighty Wurlitzer” organ. Dave Wickerham will be performing ...

Wendell Rotter contributed to the soundtrack of Central New York. He entertained guests at the New York State Fairgrounds during Christmas time and during the state fair from the Empire Theatre’s ...