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It may seem that organs can never be too large, but the music on this week’s show reveals the beauty in smaller things—music played on instruments with only a single manual keyboard!

Tune in as we look at battle music. Quite the opposite of peace pieces, this collection chronicles the strife between good and evil.

Come along as we explore composers for the organ and historic instruments from Mexico.

This week’s show is a convenient collector’s guide to remarkable recordings featuring American performers and instruments.

This week, we’ll reflect upon events form the past year and take a look at some projections for the future.

Taken from many nations, the music on this week’s program adds a distinctive flavor to our Christmas celebration.

Join us for a merry mingling of composer and performers, celebrating the holiday season.

Preluding the Christmas festival, we play the ‘waiting game’ with a collection of music for the Advent season.

…whether in Renaissance style or rhumba, when the pipe organ’s in the mood there’s no better partner. This week’s program is a display of the kinetic energy that surrounds the King of Instruments.

At Ann Arbor’s 75-year-old Michigan Theatre, an aging pipe organ served as keystone to the downtown’s heritage preservation.

…In tribute to the patron saint of music, concert performances on the recently installed, multi-faceted pipe organ at the Cathedral of Saint Cecilia in Omaha, Nebraska.

This week we celebrate the 125th anniversary of Canada’s most prominent organ maker: Casavant Frères.

This week we visit three recent and noteworthy pipe organ installations in American concert halls.

This week we’re taking a walk on the darker side with some spooky and surprising evocations of things that go ‘bump in the night’, music for Hallowe’en.

Michael Barone took Pipedreams Live! to Grand Rapids, Michigan, and introduced these performances by area organists at Central Reformed Church.

Join us as we listen to live concert performances that remind us of the challenges performers face and the delights we listeners enjoy.

Listen to a sampling of three recent installations of American-built instruments in Switzerland, California and Nebraska. An additional recital program from Omaha’s Saint Cecilia Cathedral will be aired in November to celebrate of the Feast of Saint Cecilia, patron of musicians. And did you know that the case for the Lausanne Fisk was devised by Giorgetto Giugiaro, designer of the Maserati Bora and Volkswagen Golf and hundreds of other automobiles?

Craig R. Whitney visits us to talk about the traditions and power of the pipe organ in the United States.