Historic Sacred Heart Cathedral organ set for $150,000 restoration project

After decades of wear and mounting maintenance issues, a century-old pipe organ at Sacred Heart Parish in Rock Island is set ...
National Catholic Register

Catholic Churches Are Buying Pre-Owned Pipe Organs to Enhance Their Liturgies

In 2021, Holy Angels Catholic Church in Basehor, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City, celebrated the blessing of its newly installed Opus 5 organ originally created by Halbert Gober of Gober Organs.
The New York Times

Let the Organ Revitalize You

No, not that kind of organ. By Chris Almeida When I lived in Chicago, my wife and I would, whenever we could, see movies at a theater called the Music Box. Opened in 1929, the main auditorium has a ...
Daily Herald

Hear historic 1698 organ at Great Elgin Pipe Organ Tour concert May 18

The next stop on the Great Elgin Pipe Organ Tour will be at 4 p.m. Sunday, May 18, at the Church of the Brethren General Offices, 1451 Dundee Ave. in Elgin. Note the location is the denominational ...
WXYZ

Pulling out all the stops: Restoring Detroit Masonic Temple's 97-year-old pipe organ

DETROIT (WXYZ) — The Detroit Masonic Temple is the largest Masonic Temple in the world, and one of its finest jewels may be a nearly 100-year-old pipe organ that ...
SFGate

Where to find organ performances

The sound of an organ is triumphant when the "Wedding March" shakes a sanctuary, and whimsical from the bygone days of "pizza and pipes," and yet the chords of "A Whiter Shade of Pale" are somber and ...
PBS

Baroque Pipe Organs of Oaxaca

The restoration of elaborate church pipe organs in Oaxaca to their former Baroque glory. Centuries ago Catholic religious orders from Spain created a Baroque culture among the Indians of the Mexican ...