If you have visited Mr. Portzamparc's organ recital hall at the City of Music, you will expect the Zankel auditorium to be elliptically shaped also.
A lover of music -- he had an organ in the hall of his Fifth Avenue mansion and hired professional musicians to play there -- he financed the $1 million construction cost of the neo-Renaissance symphony hall, which opened in 1891.
ALICE TULLY HALL ORGAN Swept into Lincoln Center's White Light festival, the belated return of the Kuhn organ to the refurbished hall is a notable event on its own.
In 1976, the same fate befell the Aeolian-Skinner organ at Philharmonic Hall, or Avery Fisher, as it was later renamed.
For its daytime holiday celebration, the Biltmore welcomes visitors with intricate decorations, Vanderbilt's art and antique collection, and music played on the music hall organ.
He said the goal was to return the organ to the hall, which has a space waiting for it, in the summer of 2010.
Yet it somehow manages to avoid bombast and ends in a weighty blaze of orchestral colour to which the Festival Hall organ added its formidable voice.
With the same off-kilter approach to pop as The Flaming Lips, they are full of unexpected twists (a saxophone here, some music hall organ there).
New York was not a stop on the tour; for decades, the city has lacked a proper concert-hall organ.
By contrast, he added, a typical electronic organ of concert-hall dimensions runs $60,000 to $75,000, and a comparable pipe organ might reach $2.5 million to $3 million.
