| Brooklyn, N.Y. - The New York Theatre
Organ Society will present theater organist Ralph Bacha in a concert
at the console of the Mighty Wurlitzer theater organ at Long Island
University's Brooklyn Campus on Sunday, May 5. The concert titled
"Music from the Movie Palace" will take place at 3 p.m.
in the gymnasium, formerly the Paramount Theater. General admission
is $10; students and seniors, $8.
A native of Pittsburgh, Bacha received a master's degree in organ
performance from Morehead State University in Kentucky. Among his
many accomplishments: He has served as head of the theatre organ department
in Duquesne University; he has held the title of Pittsburgh City Organist,
performing at the Phipps Conservatory; he has appeared with such notables
as Doc Severinson, Nancy Wilson, Chet Atkins, John Denver, the Smothers
Brothers and Victor Borge; he has performed at the Churchill Downs
Kentucky Derby; and he has appeared on PBS and NBC television.
Bacha has installed in his home the Marr & Colton theatre pipe
organ originally in Buffalo's Roosevelt Theatre. It is the largest
theatre pipe organ in New York State, second only to the Wurlitzer
in Radio City Music Hall.
Long Island University's 4/26 Wurlitzer, Opus 1894, is an original
installation still housed where the Wurlitzer Company installed
it in 1928, in the Brooklyn Paramount, now the athletic center for
the University's Brooklyn Campus. For more information about the
concert, call (718) 596-6305.
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