Tag: Organ

  • Nation & World

    A splash with the spleen

    A group of Harvard Medical School students is using the viral success of tongue-in-cheek video on the spleen to promote science education, launching a contest for younger students to make organ-themed music videos.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Piping up, to good effect

    After years of planning, an effort once spearheaded by the late Rev. Peter J. Gomes to install a new organ in the Memorial Church will fill its halls with music.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Organist wins music battle

    Harvard’s Associate University Organist and Choirmaster Christian Lane was recently named the winner of the prestigious 2011 triennial Canadian International Organ Competition.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    A sound welcome

    The arrival of the first components of the new Fisk Opus 139 organ for the Memorial Church was welcomed with song on June 20.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Old music new again

    The Music Department honored Thomas Forrest Kelly’s longtime contributions to the study of chant and performance practice with a conference called “City, Chant, and the Topography of Early Music.”

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    What a set of pipes

    Over the next few years two new organs will take the place of the iconic C.B. Fisk organ in Appleton Chapel. The solution will help the church solve a long-standing musical dilemma.

    6 minutes