Only ardent music historians know the difference between a portative organ, a small medieval instrument on which only a single melodic line could be played, and a positive organ, a larger device from ...
Johan Halvorsen prepares to play the E. & G.G. Hook pipe organ at St. John Catholic Church. Halvorsen, 16, of Guilford likes playing the organ because "it has so much color." He will participate in ...
Eric Garner's goal is to become a "top-level organist at a humongous cathedral," perhaps the National Shrine. At age 15, he dreams of being the organist at St. Ouen, in Rouen, France, or Saint-Sulpice ...