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There's a $2M Pipe Organ in Madison and You Should Hear It

There's a $2M Pipe Organ in Madison and You Should Hear It

City Cast Madison

October 10, 202320m 7s

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Show Notes

There’s a giant among us and it lives at the Overture Center for the Arts. It’s a 30-ton pipe organ. It cost more than two million dollars, contains more than 4,000 pipes and is used in performances ranging from Latin Jazz to Bach to collaborations with the UW-Madison Wind Ensemble.

The man who knows it best is Greg Zelek, the principal organist for the Madison Symphony Orchestra. He’s the curator of the Overture Concert Organ, and he oversees all of the orchestra’s organ programming. If you caught Greg’s performance last Friday, you’ll want to learn more about why he’s so moved by organ music. 

Learn about the rest of this season’s organ concerts. 

Thanks to listener Dee for suggesting this episode. This episode originally aired on August 1, 2023.

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