Lincoln Center Gets Its Organ Back
Monday, June 14, 2010
After spending four years in storage, Alice Tully Hall's 19-ton concert organ is back in business. Or at least back at Lincoln Center.
The delicate instrument was delivered today in thousands of pieces. It will take all day to unload from two trucks, and all summer to re-install. Once the free-standing organ is put together, each of its 4,192 pipes will be adjusted separately to fit the acoustics at the newly renovated Alice Tully.
Expert instrument makers from the Kuhn company, which built the organ in 1974, travelled from Switzerland to oversee the process.
Lincoln Center expects to welcome back the organ with a concert on November 16.
Click on the images below to view a slideshow of the organ being unloaded.
Comments [3]
It is wonderful to see that the organ is being reinstalled in Alice Tully Hall. Hopefully, NYC will hear the Saint Saens Organ Symphony again, soon. We are blessed here in Seattle to have great pipe organs. Benaroya Hall is a great venue and the tracker there is used regularly as well as during a Monday free tour every two months. A vacated downtown Seattle church was saved from the wreckers and is now the Daniels Recital Hall with its organ in use. Besides that one, Seattle's Roosevelt High School has its pipe organ restored for use in student concerts and lessons. We all look forward to the annual Halloween Organ Recital given by University of Washington organ students in Kane Hall at UW. I really hope Lincoln Center will set up an extensive organ schedule so all of you New Yorkers can enjoy solo organ recitals in a concert hall setting as well as with orchestra, just like what we are privileged to do here in Seattle as well as other lucky cities on this planet of ours!
This is great news. Bravo Lincoln Center.
and I've already purchased my tickets for Paul Jacobs' rededication of the Tully organ on Nov. 16.
Can't wait!
Yeah! It's about time! I'm so pleased to see this instrument will be returning to its rightful place in our concert life. I hope we will soon be able to hear the "king of instruments" in all its glory.
But I ask Lincoln Center, when will you buy and install a pipe organ for Avery Fisher Hall as well?
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