Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Senate Theater is a theater in Detroit, Michigan, known for its "Mighty Wurlitzer" pipe organ, originally installed at the Fisher Theater.The Senate opened in 1926, deteriorated substantially after its closure in the 1950s, and reopened in 1964 under the ownership and volunteer operation of the Detroit Theatre Organ Society.
Organ performances ended around the same time, although the organ remained intact. The original marquee was scrapped for the war effort. [3] [8] In 1966, the Motor City Theatre Organ Society, a local chapter of the American Theatre Organ Society, began a series of organ performances at the theatre. The MTCOS had begun to restore the organ the ...
Detroit's 1,571-seat Redford Theatre (1928), with its Japanese motifs, is home to the Motor City Theatre Organ Society (MCTOS). [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Along with Wayne State University ’s Hilberry Theatre in Midtown , the only graduate repertory theater in the nation, Detroit has enjoyed a resurgence in theatrical productions and attendance.
A massive pipe organ that underscored the drama and comedy of silent movies with live music in Detroit's ornate Hollywood Theatre nearly a century ago was dismantled into thousands of pieces and ...
5-Manual theatre organ consoles are extremely rare, and only three were built by Wurlitzer: Opus 1351 (28 ranks), originally installed in the Michigan Theatre, in Detroit. The organ was removed in 1956 and is now installed in a private residence in Racine, Wisconsin. Six additional ranks were added, to make it a 34-rank. [19]
The Murphys arranged for the organ to be donated to Detroit's Calvary Presbyterian Church. A lawsuit was filed to compel Paradise Theater management to allow the organ's removal; the move was eventually carried out by the Toledo Pipe Organ Company and church members in the middle of the night. [5] Orchestra Hall in 1970
The first theatre organ produced by the company was for the Oatka Theatre in Warsaw. At the height of its operation in the 1920s, the company had branch offices in New York City, Detroit, and Hollywood, and employed some 375 people. David Marr would often attend the opening of a new theatre in which one of his instruments was installed.
Theatre Organ Society of Australia; Theatre Organ Society International This page was last edited on 30 December 2019, at 15:41 (UTC). Text is available under the ...