The pipe organ is typically associated with formal concert halls, church music and traditional works by Baroque composers like Bach. But one musician, Anna Lapwood, is broadening the instrument’s reputation and has gotten millions of people to tune in. Jeffrey Brown and Maine Public went to experience this in Portland as part of our arts and culture series, "CANVAS."Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors.
Amna Nawaz:
The pipe organ is typically associated with formal concert halls and church music, traditional works by Baroque composers like Bach.But one musician is broadening the instrument's reputation and has gotten over a million people to tune in.Our senior arts correspondent, Jeffrey Brown, with help from our friends at Maine Public, went to experience this in Portland. It's part of our arts and culture series, Canvas.(Music)
Jeffrey Brown:
A lone musician at the console of an instrument capable of enormous and enormously varying sounds, hands and feet flying across the keyboards.
