All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories

Wanamaker Organ, Curtis Organ & Larry Ferrari: Pulling Out All the Stops: The Laurel Hill Organ Episode

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Biographical Bytes from Bala #015

  • The Wanamaker Organ is the largest playable musical instrument in the world and sits in Center City Philadelphia; there are several Laurel Hill connections. 
  • William B. Irvine left his estate to the University of Pennsylvania but did not know they would use it to build an auditorium named for him, designed by architect Horace Trumbauer.  The magazine publisher Cyrus Curtis donated an organ.  All three of these men are at Laurel Hill West.
  • For more than 40 years, organist Larry Ferrari kept Philadelphians company on Sunday mornings by playing popular music on his television show.  Larry is also at Laurel Hill West.
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