For all the hundreds of glorious and seductive-sounding fiddles Antonio Stradivari and family knocked out, it was composers and composers alone who shaped the course of violin writing over the course ...

Theater organist Justin Nimmo practices on the custom-made digital virtual organ at Greenwood United Methodist Church on June 12. The organ, which was put together by church music director Drew ...

Historic pipe organs are marvels, said Tim Nickel. As organist at St. Luke’s ~ San Lucas Episcopal Church in Vancouver, he fills the sanctuary during Sunday services with musical majesty. The ...

The 31st annual Fall Festival of the Arts, held by Trinity Lutheran and Christ Episcopal churches in downtown Reading, opens with an art exhibit and sale Friday and will hold events this weekend and ...

International concert organist Loreto Aramendi will present an organ concert at 7 p.m. Friday on the Aeolian-Skinner organ of Memorial Presbyterian Church. Admission is free, but donations will be ...

This month sees the 175th birthday of composer and organist Charles-Marie Widor, born on Feb. 21, 1844, in Lyon, France. Widor’s profession was, seemingly, predestined: his father was an organ builder ...

Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Charles-Marie Widor. In his lifetime, Widor was fated throughout Europe as a performer, teacher, and composer of ballets, opera, concertos and organ ...

Philippe Lefebvre, 64, plays the organ in May 2013 at Notre Dame cathedral in Paris. Christophe Ena/Associated Press files I first heard the great organ high in the west gallery of Notre Dame in 1963, ...