Paul Jacobs: Why Doesn’t New York’s Geffen Hall Have A Real Organ?

Administrators opted to install another electronic (or ‘digital’) organ, a substitute for the real thing. This misguided decision, made hastily during the malaise of the Covid pandemic, was as baffling as it is unfortunate. The New York Philharmonic, a venerable, well-heeled institution, shouldn’t present to the public a facsimile of a pipe organ. – BBC Music