"The picture is one of the best ever shown in Memphis, barring none," raved a movie reviewer credited as "A.M.D." in the Feb. 2, 1926, edition of The Commercial ...

SEATTLE — It happens four times a year. A glorious time machine is taken out of storage and put on a lift. Covered by canvas, powered by hydraulics, the lift raises it up until it is almost level with ...

Wendell Rotter contributed to the soundtrack of Central New York. He entertained guests at the New York State Fairgrounds during Christmas time and during the state fair from the Empire Theatre’s ...

Grammy-winning Memphis music producer and engineer Matt Ross-Spang has worked with such artists as John Prine, Al Green and the Drive-By Truckers. But capturing the building-sized sound of the almost ...

Organ music fits at midnight in a cemetery, but it also goes with the neon lights of a roller rink. Amplified by pipes or electricity, the instrument conjures churches, ball games, music halls, ...

Wurlitzer is one of the oldest and most respected names in the music industry. The Rudolph Wurlitzer Co. began in Cincinnati in 1856 and went on to worldwide recognition for its pianos, theater organs ...

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 ...