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| | pipe organ: Information From Answers.com |
 | | For example, on many organs there is a group of pipes operated by the manual second closest to the player, and all of these pipes are contained in a chamber called a swell box which has louvred shutters to control the volume of the sound. | | | Tangerine Dream combined the distinctive sounds of electronic synthesizers and pipe organs, recording both music albums and videos in several cathedrals in Europe. | | | A later development threatened the very existence of the pipe organ as an instrument, when fully electronic pipeless organs were developed that could fill similar musical roles, see organ (music). |
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http://www.answers.com/topic/pipe-organ-2
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| | Susan Wyndham Article in SMH |
| | The Sydney Opera House organ was designed by a self -taught local organ builder, Ronald Sharp, and is the largest mechanical -action organ in the world, 16 metres high and with 10,244 pipes. | | | Before construction of the Opera House, the city's largest organ was at the Sydney Town Hall. | | | Sydney's Sacred Heart nuns had opened the chapel of their new convent at Rose Bay in 1900. |
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http://www.puget-organ-restoration.org.au/restoration/article.html
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| | ALTON ORGAN SOCIETY |
| | The restoration of the Lincoln organ in 1998 was accompanied by a CD of more popular music on the Cantoris label and a recording of French music on the Guild label has just been released. | | | In 1977 he made an LP recording of the St Lawrence organ on the Wealden label, which was well reviewed in the musical press and which has since been reissued in cassette form. | | | Future plans include a recording of English organ music on the Chichester instrument and a tour to South Africa at Easter 2005 with the cathedral choir. |
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http://home.clara.net/willman
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| | Sydney Opera House |
| | Covering almost 1.82ha (4.5 acres) the Opera House is Sydney's most popular tourist attraction, and is also one of the worlds busiest performing arts centres. | | | But the Opera House is more than a just tourist attraction, it is a presence, a part of the landscape that seems to have been there forever, and it is impossible to imagine the Harbour without it. | | | The Opera House took 14 years to complete and was opened in October 1973 by Queen Elizabeth II. |
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http://www.infotrek-au.com/city_sydney_opera_house.htm
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| | Opera House |
| | The Sydney Opera House was officially opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on 20 October 1973. | | | In an average year, the Sydney Opera House presents theatre, musicals, opera, contemporary dance, ballet, every form of music from symphony concerts to jazz as well as exhibitions and films. | | | Even today, many visitors are surprised to find that the Sydney Opera House is really a complex of theatres and halls all linked together beneath its famous shells. |
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http://www.anzac.com/aust/nsw/soh.htm
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| | Christopher Hogwood's web site: selected archive of news |
| | Although the Opera House in Sydney is a grand building, the opera theatre inside is relatively small and suitably intimate. | | | Curiously, when the same barbarities are actually inflicted on grade I*-listed musical works in the opera house or concert hall, there is hardly a murmur from chatterati or critics. | | | Tafelmusik, for example, was not wallpaper music played while people chattered and swigged; it properly filled the inevitable intervals between courses in grand households, when, as with an after-dinner speech, people listened to what was on offer. |
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http://www.hogwood.org/newsa2.htm
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| | Tradition, Family, and Property |
| | The Sydney Opera House grand organ boasts of 10,000. | | | The Wanamaker is not only the world’s largest organ, it is also the largest musical instrument on earth. | | | He had acquired a taste for music some years ago but admitted there was nothing like live music. |
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http://www.tfp.org/TFPForum/AmComm/America/the_wanamaker.html
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| | FeatureArtists.html |
| | He was the first organist to record the Sydney Opera House Grand Organ (with orchestra) on the critically acclaimed album of music from the film Breaker Morant. | | | Veronica DILLON attended her first theatre organ concert in 1995 and immediately fell in love with the instrument. | | | Lance LUCE began his musical studies at the age of eight with the classical guitar, cello, and saxophone, but discovered the theatre pipe organ at the age of 10. |
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http://www.tosa.net.au/TOSASITE/FeatureArtists.html
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| | Move Records - Composer - Percy Grainger |
| | Sydney City organist Robert Ampt and Amy Johansen perform a program of popular organ duets on the famous Sydney Opera House organ. | | | Organ duets performed on the Sydney Opera House organ. | | | In the grand concert organ tradition, brilliant young organist Thomas Heywood performs a diverse program of popular organ music specifically chosen for the grand concert organ at the Melbourne Town Hall. |
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http://www.move.com.au/artist.cfm/412
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| | Sydney |
| | The Sydney Opera House covers almost 2 ha and is the fourth building to stand on this prominent site. | | | city's most popular tourist attraction, the Sydney Opera House is also one of the world's busiest performing arts centres. | | | Because of its impossible looking design over the years the Opera House has been variously described as "one of the modern wonders of the world" and "a ruck of nuns". |
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http://www.hasyfa.de/opera.htm
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| | Sydney Opera House - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The opera house's roof is constructed of 1,056,000 glazed white granite tiles imported from Sweden. | | | Security at the Opera House has increased as the result of the likelihood of it attracting attention of terrorists because the Australian Government's support of the invasion of Iraq. | | | Following an arrangement made in 1999, plans were made to change Hall's internal design of the Opera House to that of Utzon's. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Opera_House
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| | Piano World News Page |
| | 7-1-02 We have put up a new page of our last visit to Harvey and Marion Roehl's (pronounced Rail) house and music room. | | | Harvey is the man who did most to single-handedly bring automatic music back from the edge of obscurity for the last 40 years. | | | I went back and bought every skin they had of the stuff. |
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http://www.thepianoworld.com/news.htm
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| | Public Works |
| | The plans were part of the structural engineering records of Ove Arup and Partners, who were retained by the Department of Public Works as Consulting Engineers for the Sydney Opera House Project. | | | This report resulted from a decision that the "current Opera House design should be examined on the basis of the experience of available experts, and the latest available international standards, modified as may be necessary in view of modern technologies, local conditions, traditions and recognized authorities". | | | Ove Arup and Partners were engaged by Jørn Utzon in London, and were the only consultants who were involved in all stages of the Opera House Construction. |
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http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/cguide/pr/pwd00022.htm
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| | MUS Concert History |
| | The Macquarie University Singers at the Sydney Opera House, with the Australian Pops / Philharmonic Orchestra, and Willoughby Symphony Choir | | | With the Sydney Opera House Orchestra and the Willoughby Symphony Choir, conducted by Colin Piper | | | With the Australian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Willoughby Symphony Choir, conducted by Gavin Sutherland at the Sydney Opera House |
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http://www.mus.org.au/about/concerts.html
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| | R. Jelani Eddington Organ Concerts and Recordings |
| | Grand Ledge Opera House, 121 South Bridge Street, Grand Ledge, Michigan, 48837. | | | 4/73 Wurlitzer Theatre Pipe Organ and Concert Grand Piano. | | | December 7, 2002 Holiday Pops Concert, Rialto Square Theatre, Joliet, Illinois, 4/27 Grande Barton Theatre Pipe Organ and Concert Grand Piano. |
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http://www.rjeproductions.com/concertsArchive.shtml
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| | Untitled Document |
| | For that recital, the Sydney Morning Herald reported “an audience claimed to be the largest for any Opera House concert assembled at the lunch-time yesterday in the concert hall. | | | In 1979 to 1982, he was appointed the Assistant City Organist (theatre) in Sydney, playing the Sydney Town Hall Grand Organ for many concerts as well as being the inaugural recitalist at the Sydney Opera House Grand Organ. | | | He remembers first playing a Wurlitzer organ in the Plaza Theatre in George Street, Sydney where Reubert Hayes was the organist. |
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http://www.allorgans.com.au/david_parsons_bio.htm
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| | The Loop |
| | Erin has recently prepared a new edition of the opera for the Sydney company, of which he is a co-musical director. | | | GRAND OPERA circa 1922 - A tragedy set to music. | | | Sharon came to study opera with us from China in 2004,and will continue in 2005 to study for her Masters Her pianist for this competition is from our post grad accompaniment unit, Marie Searles. |
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http://infodesk.conmusic.usyd.edu.au:16080/loop
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| | SYDNEY 2000 |
| | The Opera House, definitely not a venue to find a theatre organ but this is where I ended up playing the Grand Organ in the Concert Hall one evening. | | | My most grateful thanks to John Andrews and Neil Palmer for introducing me to the Sydney organ scene. | | | Sydney was on everyone's mind when that spectacular fireworks display was one of the first to herald in the year 2000. |
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http://www.girdwood.co.uk/sydney1.html
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| | House of horrors - smh.com.au |
| | His performance at the Opera House harks back to the days when silent films were shown in grand movie palaces with live musical accompaniment. | | | The Opera House isn't too young to be haunted. | | | Hailed as a horror masterpiece, the haunting impact of its disfigured antihero (played by Lon Chaney) and his violent, obsessive love for an opera singer (Mary Philbin) was rivalled only by the lavishness of its $US1 million Hollywood production, which included sequences in Technicolor, which was cutting-edge technology at the time. |
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http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/01/30/1043804461887.html
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| | NSW Heritage Office Website - Listing Heritage Items - State Heritage Register - Item View |
| | Sydney author Ruth Park wrote about the Sydney Opera House in 1973 in an account that is suggestive of some of the perceptions of it at that time: 'To walk into the Opera House is to walk inside a sculpture, or perhaps a seashell, maybe an intricate, half-translucent nautilus. | | | The Sydney Opera House is significant for its research potential as an internationally recognised icon of modern architecture. | | | Archaeological relics were found during excavations for a lift pit in the basement of the Sydney Opera House. |
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http://www.heritage.nsw.gov.au/07_subnav_02_2p.cfm?itemid=5054880
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| | Sydney Piano Tuners Guide - www.musicteachers.com.au |
| | Builder of the Grand Organ in the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall - Specialising in improvement of piano tone and touch as well as tuning - PianoDisk Specialist. | | | Servicing all the Sydney Metropolitan Area and the Blue Mountains | | | Tuning and Repairs to Pianos, Grand Pianos, Player Pianos. |
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http://www.musicteachers.com.au/Tuners.htm
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| | ALLORGEL |
| | Anthology of American Organ Music - Volume 1 - The Eighteenth Century | | | Aeolian Skinner-Orgel, Washington Peter and Paul Cathedral, Washington DC Organ Music of Franz Liszt | | | Michal Murray plays the great Organ in the Methuen Memorial Music Hall |
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http://www.arnoschuh.de/allorgel.htm
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| | Construct My Future |
| | For these reasons, the Sydney Opera House is recognized as one of the world's most distinctive architectural designs and dominates not only the harbor but also the entire Sydney skyline. | | | Fourteen years in the making, the Sydney Opera House was opened on October 23, 1973 by Queen Elizabeth II and celebrated its 25th Birthday in October, 1998. | | | Inside there are four venues - the Opera Theater, the Concert Hall, the Drama Theater and the Playhouse. |
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http://www.constructmyfuture.com/hall-sydney.html
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| | TWF: searching: sydney opera house 2 |
| | A vision takes form: a graphic record of the building of the Sydney Opera House during stage one and two. | | | Sydney Opera House in its harbour setting : nomination of Sydney Opera House in its harbour setting for inscription on the World heritage List by the Government of Australia 1994 / jointly prepared by the Commonwealth Department of the Environment, Sports and Territories and the NSW Department of Urban Affairs and Planning. | | | Sydney: Sydney Opera House Trust in association with Playbill, 1994. |
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http://www.twf.org.au/search/soh2.html
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| | Carthalia - Sydney: Opera House |
| | Reverse Text: "Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House - This magnificent Concert Hall has 2,679 seats. | | | Front Text: "Concert Hall - Sydney Opera House" | | | Originally intended for opera performances, the biggest hall with 2697 seats is used as "Concert Hall" due to its insufficient acoustics. |
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http://www.andreas-praefcke.de/carthalia/world/aus_sydney_opera.htm
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| | TRH The Crown Prince Couple - Music for the Royal Wedding in Copenhagen Cathedral |
| | In recent years this work has been performed around the world in concerts and has also been performed in the bride's home country, at the world famous Sydney Opera House. | | | Gades choral arrangement of it has become a permanent feature in the repertoire of most Danish choirs. | | | 75 FD Percy Whitlock: 2 pieces; Allegretto/Sea Shanty MH Kunzen: Poco adagio, F-major FD Mozart: Ave Verum, for choir and organ EM, Sung by The Copenhagen Boys' Choir |
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http://www.hkhkronprinsen.dk/22d0029
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| | Sydney Opera House > What's On > Box Office |
| | A FREE concert celebrating 25 years of the Sydney Opera House Grand Organ. | | | To celebrate the Silver Anniversary, Sydney Opera House is offering the people of Sydney the opportunity to hear a free concert of organ music demonstrating the full range of the Grand Organs power from iconic Baroque classics to Wurlitzer-style popular favourites. | | | The Sydney Opera House Concert Hall Grand Organ is an extraordinary instrument with over 10,000 pipes, it is the largest mechanical action organ in the world. |
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http://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/sections/whats_on/boxoffice/event_details.asp?EventID=1213&sm=1&ss=1
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| | Sydney |
| | The other most famous landmark has to be the Sydney Opera House, an architectural challenge that lasted 14 years. | | | The largest hall seating 2,690, is used for symphony, choral, jazz, folk and pop concerts etc. The Opera Theatre is mainly used for opera and ballet and seats 1,557, and the Playhouse seating almost 400 is ideal for small productions and larger plays. | | | The Opera House was eventually finished and opened in 1973. |
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http://www.cuenta.freeserve.co.uk/sydney.html
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| | Present Australia - Present Australia - News - Media Centre |
| | Eric Whitacre is back on the Sydney stage by popular demand, following his sell-out performance at the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall in 2004. | | | Sydney Opera House - huge successes in 2004 | | | Full House at Sydney Opera House for Verdi Requiem |
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http://www.presentaustralia.com/news.html?id=17
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| | Opera House celebrates 30 years - http://www.smh.com.au |
| | Taken during the construction of the House, the photos captured the evolution of the shell-like sails which cut a distinctive figure across Sydney's skyline and inspired part of the Sydney Olympics logo, although they were once decried as "shark's teeth". | | | Jan Utzon, who studied architecture in Sydney while his father worked on The House, said that despite the acrimony of the 1960s, his dad had fond memories of the project. | | | An Opera House spokeswoman said the tours drew about 40,000 people and the interest was worldwide. |
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http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/10/19/1066502074232.html
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