Pipedreams
Airs Sundays at 10PM on 105.9 FM
Celebrating more than twenty-five years on the air, Pipedreams is the only weekly radio program that explores the full range of the art and potential of the pipe organ.
Each week, Pipedreams host Michael Barone shares selected organ works and performances, and in doing so, encourages listeners to engage both their ears and imaginations to gain greater appreciation of this instrument. He talks with composers, organists, organ builders and restorers. The show features brand new instruments in churches and concert halls, plus historic pipe organs recorded in locations around the world, from ancient instruments in vast cathedrals to the “mighty Wurlitzers” of movie house fame.
“Pipedreams engages a wide range of listeners—not just organists—and that is the magic and the beauty of it. Pipedreams is not only an ongoing course in organ repertoire, but it is also a door for people who have never yet heard a pipe organ or gone to an organ recital.” —The American Organist Magazine
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Upcoming Episodes
Latest Episodes and Articles
Double Duty
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Ken Double, President of the American Theatre Organ Society, presents a sampler of the popular-organ art.
Longwood Revisited
Sunday, May 13, 2012
After a meticulous multi-year restoration, the 10,000-pipes of the 1930 Aeolian organ in the conservatory ballroom at the former Pierre du Pont estate in Kennett Square, Penn., sound more magnificent than ever.
Virgil Fox: The Centenary
Sunday, May 06, 2012
Pipedreams presents a tribute to the memory of one of the most popular -- and controversial -- organists of all time, Virgil Fox, who believed in the cause of beauty above history, and above the limitations of any instrument.
Dutch Masters
Sunday, April 29, 2012
In observance of the 450th anniversary of composer and organist Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck’s birth, this week Pipedreams surveys organ art in the Netherlands.
Celebrating Église Saint Sulpice
Sunday, April 22, 2012
The Parisian church Église Saint Sulpice enjoyed the world’s largest musical instrument when its mighty 100-stop Cavaillé-Coll pipe organ was inaugurated 150 years ago, on Easter Sunday, April 20, 1862.
Spring is Here
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Whether in pagan ritual, songs of sunshine, spiritual revival or April showers, we enjoy the sweet music -- and breezes -- of springtime music.
