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1913 Welte Wotan of the Sanfilippo Collection
A Home for Music
It must be pretty wonderful to have a pipe organ in your living room and still more amazing to own the largest theatre organ in the world. On our next Pipedreams program, we visit the Place de Musique, Jasper and Marion Sanfilippo’s snazzy residence north of Chicago to hear Tom Hazleton play the Mighty Wurlitzer Plus, and explore with curator Robert Ridgeway some of the other marvelous musical machinery for which the Sanfilippos have an obvious fascination. Before radio, surround-sound stereos and video arcades, you could summon your own private concert at the drop of a coin. Hear the photoplayers, music boxes, automatic violinas and orchestrions all restored to better-than-new condition.
Hear a world of music spring to life as we visit a private collection of marvelous mechanical musical instruments: band organs, pianolas, a violano-virtuoso, and a Mighty Wurlitzer. In the company of Tom Hazleton and Robert Ridgeway, ours is a special guided tour like no other of A Home for Music this week on Pipedreams.
Program Broadcast dates:
- March 19, 2001
Links and Resources
1927 Wurlitzer organ- Victorian Palace
- Musical Contrasts Presents PARADISE
- PARADISE REVISITED
- Pipe Organ Extravaganza V RialtoFest Weekend
- Antique Phonograph Soc. & Sanfilippo’s Victorian Palace
- Large Band Organ at Victorian Palace
Music played in the program
FISHER: Chicago. JOHANN STRAUSS II: Pizzicato Polka. YOUMANS/GERSHWIN: Praise Choruses (It’s ain’t necessarily so; Someone to watch over me; I’ll build a stairway to paradise; Sing Hallelujah!; Our love is here to stay) –Tom Hazleton (1927 Wurlitzer/Sanfilippo Residence, Barrington, IL) recorded 10/19/97
TORCH: Hot Dog –Tom Hazleton, via digital playback sequencer (recorded 10/17/97)
Von TILZER: Oh, how she could dance –Welte Wotan Orchestrion
KREISLER: Liebesleid –Mills Violano Virtuoso
DONALDSON: How ya gonna keep them down on the farm –Mills Multi-Violino
DONALDSON: You. HANDY: Saint Louis Blues –Tom Hazleton, via digital playback sequencer (recorded 10/17/97)
HEBBLE: Simple Gifts –Tom Hazleton (1927 Wurlitzer/Sanfilippo Residence, Barrington, IL) Hopeful Heart
CD-202
Filler–TORCH: On a Spring Note (from Hopeful Heart CD-202, see above)
In addition to the instruments listed above, you’ll also hear a Philips Pianella Paganini Violin-Piano (Style 3), a Wurlitzer Mandolin PianOrchestra, a Mills Multi-Violino, a Wurlitzer Mandolin Quartet, and a Wurlitzer Photo-Player (Style K). These are just a few of the several hundred player-instruments, phonographs, music boxes, and other intricate and marvelous devices found in Jasper Sanfilippo’s remarkable and comprehensive collection (some of which are pictured on our website) all made possible by, but not for, peanuts (etc.)!