“The organ here was not getting a lot of use and it kind of deteriorated.” “There’s probably less than 100 of these left in theaters throughout the world, when at one point there were thousands and thousands of them,” Andersen said of the vintage instrument during a recent interview. Viewers in some television markets may recognize him as the host of “Crescendo!,” a public access show about performing arts about to begin its ninth season. The organ will be played by Mark Andersen, a Lumberton native who has performed with the Boston Symphony and worked as an arranger for NBC. Following decades of neglect, many of the instruments fell into disrepair. Cinema owners found a much cheaper alternative in the versatile organs, which allowed a single musician to play an array of actual instruments hidden in traps and chambers.īut the introduction of talkies rendered the organs as obsolete as the orchestras they were built to replace. Theater organs like the “Mighty” Morton were a staple of early movie palaces, which had previously employed large orchestras to provide music and sound effects during silent films. 18 as part of a musical tribute to the 1920s. Specialists from the Piedmont Organ Society spent several years working to restore the vintage instrument, which will be played Feb. LUMBERTON - The Carolina Civic Center’s “Mighty” Morton theater organ will soon come roaring back to life.
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