An organ in a symphony? That’s not something you hear every day. But Camille Saint-Saëns wasn’t one to follow the usual rules ...
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How a curator saved the San Diego Symphony’s 104-year-old organ from impending oblivion — one pipe at a timeS AN DIEGO — San Diego Symphony organ curator Bob Knight will never be mistaken for the phantom of the opera. But he keeps such a low-key presence during concerts by the orchestra at Jacobs ...
It has thousands of parts, including pipes, wind-chests, keyboards, and pneumatic mechanisms of metal, wood, and leather, producing a diverse array of sounds that can simulate an orchestra in surround ...
“The organ is actually not terribly large ... confirmed — that here at the Church of the Gesu for Christmas Eve mass they paid the Philadelphia Orchestra to come and perform.” After public outcry, the ...
Esa-Pekka Salonen, the esteemed Finnish conductor-composer, began a two-week residency at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra last ...
The Finnish conductor drove the orchestra as expertly as a racing champion in Strauss, Bartók and Salonen's own Sinfonia ...
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