Jelani Eddington Plays the Mighty Wurlitzer
Pipe Organ
At Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus on Sept. 29
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For Immediate Release
Contact: Alka Gupta or Helen Saffran
September 6, 2002 |
Brooklyn, N.Y. - Music from the era of the movie palace will take
center stage at Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus on Sunday,
September 29 as theater organist and attorney Jelani Eddington
performs a rousing concert on the Campus's historic theater organ.
Known as the "Mighty Wurlitzer," the theater organ remains
in its original 1928 installation in the former Brooklyn Paramount
Theater, now the gymnasium for the Brooklyn Campus.
Eddington, born in 1974, began classical piano studies at age four.
He undertook classical and theater organ lessons at age eight, when
he heard the Wurlitzer at a music palace in Indianapolis. At 13, he
became the youngest winner of the American Theatre Organ Society's
Young Theatre Organist Competition. He has toured the United States,
Canada, Australia and Europe. His theater organ recordings include
"Fascinating Rhythms," The Song Is You," "Paramount,"
"Rhapsody" and "Here's Jelani."
In addition to his musical career, Eddington received a law degree
from Yale in 1999 and practices law in New York City.
The concert is sponsored by the New York chapter of the American Theatre
Organ Society, a national non-profit organization dedicated to the
preservation of the theater pipe organ and its musical heritage.
The concert will take place in the gymnasium at 3 p.m. General admission
to the concert is $10; for students and seniors, $8. For more information,
call (718) 596-6305.
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