The next stop on the Great Elgin Pipe Organ Tour will be at 4 p.m. Sunday, March 30, at First Presbyterian Church, 240 Standish St. in Elgin. The instrument featured was built in 1979 by W. Zimmer & ...
The appeal of rattling church rafters turned John Ahern toward the pipe organ. Granted, Ahern, 17, doesn’t want church walls to collapse when he plays chords during a hymn, but he likes the power. “I ...
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 ...