The Zeiterion Performing Arts Center, special to The Herald News NEW BEDFORD — Technology comes and goes, but some things are irreplaceable. A century after it was first installed, the historic ...

The Oriental Theatre's newly-restored 1925 Wurlitzer Pipe Organ. When the Oriental Theatre reopened its doors in 2018, the movie palace was nearly just as it was a century ago, when such opulent ...

That was a common refrain in the early 1920s when the grand movie palaces across the country began to introduce audiences to a new musical invention: the theater pipe organ. A century later, the same ...

When composer Nathan Barr found the instrument he had been looking for, he built a studio for it. Barr (“True Blood,” “The Americans”) collects unusual musical devices, especially mechanical ones from ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Victor I. Zuck was born in Hagerstown, Maryland on January 24, 1908 to Jacob and Ora Turner Zuck. David Zuck, an uncle, was an employee of M.P.

The “Mighty Wurlitzer” organ at the Castro Theatre is not actually a Wurlitzer organ. It hasn’t been one since 2015, when the theater’s genuine Rudolph Wurlitzer Company organ was deemed too ...

Dear Problem Solver: All the craft items I offered have been given away, but the Wurlitzer home electric organ I also offered is still waiting for a new home. — A.W., Whitman Dear A.W.: Perhaps ...

What utterly fantastic times were those for us who grew up with the movies back during their golden age (1920-1950). Movies then were the very antithesis of today's offerings in small, confining and ...

Off-Ramp goes to El Segundo's Old Town Music Hall to talk with Bill Field. He bought a Wurlitzer in the 60s and has been playing it ever since. For more than forty years now, the Old Town Music Hall ...

In Rome last week, Holy Year pilgrims visiting St. Peter’s were startled to hear organ music grumbling up through gratings in the marble floor. One awed pilgrim exclaimed: “It comes right from the ...