Lyn LarsenSince Lyn Larsen's debut as a theatre organist at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, he has become one of the world's leading theatre organists. All of his CDs recorded on theatre pipe organs are featured below. |
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| On the tenth anniversary of the creation of the world’s largest theatre organ (5-80), in the Barrington, Illinois, home of Jasper Sanfilippo, Lyn Larsen celebrates with the release of a CD recorded on the stupendous instrument. The Star Spangled Banner; I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise; Ship of Fools title theme & Tango Tudesco; I Loves You Porgy; Holiday in Rio; On Fifth Avenue; Peter Mintun: Melody 3; I Know That You Know (arr. Wright); Hello Young Lovers; Soldier on the Shelf; Midnight Bells; Silverheels; Bach/Stokowski: Little Fugue in g; When Day Is Done; Youth of Britain; Selections from Blackbirds of 1928: Shuffle Your Feet and Just Roll Along; I Can’t Give You Anything But Love; Diga Diga Doo; Porgy; Doin’ the New Low Down |
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| Lyn Larsen teams with Jack Bethards, a leading expert on America’s popular music, and his Orchestra for a nostalgic look at some of the music from our past. Recorded at the historic Plummer Auditorium in Fullerton, California, and the renowned 1929 Wurlitzer as the finale of the 2002 Wurlitzer Weekend. Under the Double Eagle Dainty Miss Deep in My Heart Dear Who Cares I’d Love to Call You My Sweetheart Hungarian Rag On the Air Soldier on the Shelf Once in a Blue Moon The Shadow Waltz I Guess I’ll Have to Change My Plan Wake Up and Live Selections from Showboat Crazy Rhythm Brazil Song from Moulin Rouge Just a Memory Tico-Tico In the Mood Good News |
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| A great, live concert given by Lyn Larsen with Jack Bethards & His Orchestra at Plummer Auditorium in Orange County, California, is captured in superb digital sound. Larsen plays the 37-rank Wurlitzer 4m installed in 1929, enlarged in 1993. The 13-piece orchestra directed by Jack Bethards includes first-rate professional players and masters of the swing style. Bethards, president of the Schoenstein Organ Company of San Francisco, is a leading expert on American popular and light classical music and consults to film and record producers, advertising agencies, and performing arts organizations. Tea for Two, It's All Right with Me, San Francisco, I've Got My Eyes on You, April Showers, Crazy Rhythm, Chattanooga Choo Choo, Tenderly, Moonlight Serenade, Little Brown Jug, Sunrise Serenade, In the Mood, String of Pearls, American Patrol, I've Got the Sun in the Morning, Mona Lisa, Carioca, We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye, Caravan, September Song, Jersey Jive, Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White, Autumn Leaves, Kiss of Fire, Blue Tango, Rock Around the Clock, There's No Business Like Show Business |
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| Dizzy Fingers; San Fracisco; The Varsity Drag; Manhattan; Love Walked In; Hooray for Hollywood; When Your Lover Has Gone; Jealousie; Ukulele Lady; Moonlight on the River; I’m Confessin’ That I Love You, Bess; You Is My Woman Now; Theme from General Hospital; Sonnet; Pretty Baby A Tribute to George Wright This brand new CD is Lyn Larsen’s tribute to George Wright, and it is recorded on Wright’s famous Hollywood Philharmonic Organ. |
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| La Cage Aux Folles, Best of Times, Look Over There, Masculinity, You I Like, Marianne, Hundreds of Girls, Kiss Her Now, I Don’t Want to Know, Dear World, Mame, If He Walked Into My Life, Loving You, My Best Girrl, Open a New Window, Put on Your Sunday Clothes, It Only Takes A Moment, It Takes a Woman, Milk and Honey, Let’s Not Waste a Moment, Independence Day Hora, Shalom, With Your Hand in Mine "The Jerry Herman Songbook" features Lyn Larsen playing the New York Paramount Wurlitzer 4-38 now at the Century II Convention Center, Wichita, Larsen plays great tunes from Jerry Herman’s musicals Hello Dolly!, Mame, Milk & Honey, Parade, La Cage Aux Folles, The Grand Tour, Mack & Mabel, and Dear World. |
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| Swanee, Cry Me a River, Mister Sandman, Phantom of the Opera, Willow Weep for Me, To a Wild Rose, Old Piano Roll Blues, I’ll Be Seeing You, Nanette, Here’s That Rainy Day, To a Wild Rose, more This release with Lyn Larsen at the console was the first CD to appear after the restoration and enlargement to 4-73 of the organ in the Nethercutt Collection at San Sylmar following the 1994 earthquake. |
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| All Through the Night, Tea for Two, Godfather Potpourri; Aquarium, High Hat, Cuban Serenade, Spanish Serenade, Lotus Land, Hey Mister, More Than You Know, Nobody Else But Me, I Concentrate on You, Mr. Lucky, Isn’t This a Lovely Day The largest theatre organ in the world (5 manuals, 80 ranks), commissioned by Jasper Sanfilippo for the theatre (64’x100’x42’ high) in his home, is played by Lyn Larsen in this second CD from the venue. |
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| My Sin, At Long last Love, Emaline, So In Love, Veil Dance, Theme from Schindler’s List, Shadow Waltz, Morning from Peer Gynt, Phantom Regiment, The Last Spring, They All Laughed, Once In a While, Aba Daba Honeymoon, The Man I Love, more Lyn Larsen brings magnificent artistry to this king of theatre organs at the Sanfilippo residence. |
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| Oliver Medley; From This Moment On; Stranger in Paradise; Fleurette; 42nd Street Medley; When You’re Away; Poinciana; All the Things You Are; Soliloquy; Annie Get Your Gun Medley; When You Wish Upon A Star; Satyr Dance; Auf Wiedersehen Lyn Larsen plays the famous 1925 Wurlitzer of 28 ranks and 4 manuals in its original location at Shea’s Buffalo Theatre, now a center for the performing arts, 20 miles from the Wurlitzer factory. |
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| Hallelujah; My Buddy; In a Little Spanish Town; How Long Has This Been Going On?; Ka-Lu-A; Satyr Dance; Top Hat, White Tie, and Tails; Let’s Fall in Love; Stranger in Paradise; My Man, Wiltern March; I Could Be Happy; Dream Lover; Turn on the Heat; Over the Rainbow; Carioca; Fine and Dandy; When I Take My Sugar to Tea; Russian Lullaby; Nearness of You; more "Lyn Larsen & An Evening at Home Releases" from 1965 and 66 are now on one stereo CD. Lyn plays the 3-27 Wurlitzer at Kearns/Carson residence. |
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| September in the Rain, Everybody Loves Somebody; You Are Love; Meditation; Just A-Wearyin’ for You; Memories of You; I’m Through with Love; Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered; more "That Certain Hour & Renaissance": These recordings made in 1975 and 1976 feature the Wurlitzers of 5 manuals at the Brown residence in Phoenix, Arizona, and the 4-28 at the Kline residence in Maryland. |
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| With Plenty of Money and You; Jaywalk; Frankie and Johnny; Russian Rag; Are You Lonesome Tonight?; I’ll Take an Option on You; What Are You Waiting for, Mary?; Sophisticated Lady; My Silent Love; Turkish Towel; Slaughter on Tenth Avenue; In the Good Old Summertime; Giannina Mia; Shine on Harvest Moon; In the Garden, Radetzky March; Midnight in Mayfair; St. Louis Blues; That’s-A-Plenty; Italian Street Song; My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice; Comedians’ Gallop "Premiere" & "A Lyn Larsen Concert" are reprised on CD from these earlier Larsen recordings in 1984 on the 3-19 Wurlitzer at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, and in 1976 on the 4-34 Wurlitzer at the Senate Theatre in Detroit. |
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