Kevin Healy is not afraid to toot his own horn. Or, in his case, bagpipe. “I couldn’t even read music nine years ago,” said Healy, assistant principal at Archbishop Molloy High School. “Now I’m the ...
Today, with changing tastes in music and the expense of tuning pipe organs and maintaining a warm environment for the pipes during frigid winters, he predicts they will be replaced by small organs and ...
If you haven’t experienced the pipe organ in the Brigham Young University Music Building yet, you’re in for a treat. With 4,613 pipes and 81 ranks (sets of pipes), it’s the third-largest organ in Utah ...
It seems astonishing that music of any kind could emerge from the wholesale slaughter of the First World War, yet out of the mud and the blood of the trenches we have been left with a rich legacy of ...
Ewen Henderson celebrates the best in pipe music from Scotland and around the world. This week, he features sets from the BBC piping archives, including Cameron MacDougall, Sandy Cameron and Angus ...
Listener Debra Orlofsky submits a SoundClip about the instrument she was once well-known for around Albuquerque - a large metal pipe. She played it in a band. Today, as part of our SoundClips series, ...