The Smithsonian's Wurlitzer (its console above, with the Star-Spangled Banner) likely played the national anthem before movies. Eric Long/National Musuem of American History, SI Of all the musical ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The nearly $400,000 renovation of Shea's Mighty Wurlitzer is well underway and should be complete for the center's 100th anniversary in 2026. On Wednesday, Shea's Buffalo Theater ...

When you think about Shea’s Performing Arts Center (PAC), you might not associate it with the Mighty Wurlitzer Organ. But that’s about to change, as the theater embarks upon a significant restoration ...

Stationed in Music Hall’s ballroom is an instrument few know about: the Wurlitzer organ—a special type of theater organ manufactured by the renowned Cincinnati-based Wurlitzer Company to accompany ...

On Saturday, Fox Tucson Theatre will resurrect a signature piece of its early entertainment history: the Mighty Wurlitzer. The massive theater organ, equipped with thousands of moving parts, including ...

(LEX 18) — Before the era of high-tech movie magic with IMAX and surround sound, going to the theater was a whole different experience. In the early 1900s, silent films relied on live pit orchestras ...

For a generation in Indianapolis, the old Paramount Music Palace housed a grand, booming pipe organ that provided a schmaltzy soundtrack to birthday parties, Little League team dinners, grandparent ...

One of the last surviving Wurlitzer organs in the country, which once entertained crowds at a posh Baltimore movie theater, will return to a downtown stage after a 42-year hiatus in the suburbs. The ...

THIS THEATRE opening must be the bee’s knees if they’re making Seattle’s mayor, Bertha Knight Landes, pay 50 cents to get in, just like everyone else. Newspaper photographers are asking her to pose ...

The Smithsonian's Wurlitzer (its console above, with the Star-Spangled Banner) likely played the national anthem before movies. Eric Long/National Musuem of American History, SI Of all the musical ...