So Long, Wanamaker Organ... 😥
Added 2025-01-09 22:59:57 +0000 UTCLast Call for the Wanamaker Organ - Macy's will close its doors and shutter the historic John Wanamaker Building's open retail space in March 2025, and the Wanamaker Organ will go silent. If you've never heard the organ play, go and hear it now!
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Ohh, I just watched "The Wanamaker Organ Movie!" Wow... Amazing insides..
Bungeeskunk
2025-01-11 15:28:04 +0000 UTCWow... Check out the organist Anna Lapwood @AnnaLapwoodOrgan on YT. Though Anna has not played on the Wanamaker, Anna was on the other world's largest pipe organ in Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City. •
Bungeeskunk
2025-01-11 05:50:49 +0000 UTCWealthy in the wallet, but not in the heart.
Donald J Arndt
2025-01-10 21:14:03 +0000 UTCVery sad. I grew up listening to records of this organ.
Fred Patton
2025-01-10 01:40:20 +0000 UTCSadly, humankind has really lost its way and I fear we've left it too late to save ourselves from extinction.
Dr Andy Hill
2025-01-10 00:12:08 +0000 UTCWell, that's how they got to be wealthy in the first place :(
adrian
2025-01-09 23:34:06 +0000 UTCI've never gotten there to hear it in person, but I've got audio CDs of the organ and watched their few-and-far-between live streams. Plus, there's the series of videos you did documenting the nuts-and-bolts of the instrument; I've also got the 2013 "Curator's Tour" DVD done by then-curator Curt Mangel with Michael Barone along for the ride. Your videos, Fran, document that instrument much more clearly than the DVD, particularly the part where the bottom is removed from one of the wind chests to show the inner-workings. Hopefully someone will come along and purchase the building.
Paul Schaefer
2025-01-09 23:32:41 +0000 UTCWhy don't wealthy people spend a small portion of their wealth on preserving such treasures? Oh, silly me. They care about nothing but swelling their wealth.
Dr Andy Hill
2025-01-09 23:15:15 +0000 UTC
