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"A Grand Celebration: The Philadelphia Orchestra live with the Wanamaker Organ":
Amid Shoes and Jewels, a Mighty, Mighty Sound
By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER
Published: September 28, 2008
PHILADELPHIA — The organist Virgil Fox once compared playing the Wanamaker organ, said to be the largest playable instrument in the world, to being a child in a toy store. “You have to have many arms, many hands and many brains,” he said.
The Wanamaker’s golden pipes cascade across a second-floor wall of the ornate Grand Court of Macy’s Center City here, hovering like a giant wingspan above a first-floor statue of an eagle. On Saturday, with an audience tucked between displays of shoes and jewelry, Rossen Milanov conducted the Philadelphia Orchestra and the organist Peter Richard Conte in Joseph Jongen’s “Symphonie Concertante,” a performance postponed for 80 years.
The concert was presented by Macy’s and the Friends of the Wanamaker Organ, which has a repair shop in the building...Click to continue reading this review
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