All the Stops : The Glorious Pipe Organ and its American Masters

Before steam power, elec., & internal combustion, pipe organs were admired as the most complex & intricate mechanisms, save for clocks, that humans had yet devised. Here, Whitney brings to life some of the colorful characters who devoted their lives to its music. From the mid-19th to the early 20th cent., organ music was wildly popular in America, both in concert halls & in homes. Master builders developed organs capable of replicating the sound & dynamic range of entire orchestras. Celebrity organists such as E. Power Biggs & Virgil Fox developed cult followings & bitter rivalries. But from the late 1950s to the 1970s, audiences lost interest in the organ. But today, organs are beginning to make a comeback in concert halls & churches across America.Whitney, Craig R. is the author of 'All the Stops : The Glorious Pipe Organ and its American Masters', published 2005 under ISBN 9780756798024 and ISBN 0756798027.