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The Castro Organ Devotees Association (CODA) is an American nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving and enhancing the tradition of live organ music in San Francisco’s Castro Theatre.〔 The Mighty Wurlitzer Organ Reinvented in Castro Theater: Plans to save iconic organ underway, by Heidi Smith, Castro Courier, November 2013. 〕 The theater is a popular San Francisco movie palace, built in the 1920s, which gained Historic Landmark status in 1976. The original Robert Morton organ was removed in the 1950s.〔(FAQs )〕 The present organ was assembled in the late 1970s using components from other organs, including its console, which was originally built in 1925 for the State Theatre in Detroit, Michigan to accompany silent pictures.〔(Castro organist aims to raise $1 million - San Francisco Chronicle )〕〔 Starting in 1979, the current console and organ were built by the Taylor family, it has been owned and maintained by them since, but in 2014 they are moving away taking the console and one fourth of the pipework.〔 David Hegarty, the Castro Theater's resident organist, formed CODA to act as a rescue organization for the remaining parts, and formed a partnership with organ designer Alan Harrah who had previously built one of the largest organs in the world.〔〔 Together they are constructing one of the largest organs in the western United States with seven keyboards, retaining 800 organ pipes.〔〔〔 The Wanamaker Grand Court Organ, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the largest operational pipe organ in the world, located within a spacious 7-story court at Macy's Center City (formerly Wanamaker's department store).〕 CODA is set up as an educational and outreach foundation to get the new organ bought, and built including installing the new expanded console, replacing and increasing the pipes, and coordinating the ongoing fundraising and outreach to build awareness of theater organs.〔 Hegarty noted the Bay Area already has "more world-class theater organs than any area in the country."〔http://davidhegarty.com/castro/208-the-music-man The Music Man: For 23 1/2 years, he's made Castro Theatre's pipe organ hum, Carol Ness, San Francisco Chronicle, Monday, February 18, 2002. 〕 Once the installation is complete CODA hopes to; have students intern and practice playing the large instrument, set up tours and special events, and act as an attraction for people who seek out the music of the large pipe organs including concert organists.〔 The initial fundraising efforts have been budgeted at $1 million US dollars.〔 ==History of the Castro Theater== The Castro Theatre is located on Castro Street near the intersection of Market and 17th Streets, across from the Castro Street Station on the Muni Metro subway. Located at 429 Castro Street, in the Castro district, it was built in 1922 with a Spanish Colonial Baroque façade that pays homage—in its great arched central window surmounted by a scrolling pediment framing a niche—to the recently rebuilt basilica of Mission Dolores nearby. Its designer, Timothy L. Pflueger, also designed Oakland's Paramount Theater and other movie theaters in California in that period. The theater has 1407 seats. It is one of the few 1920s theater houses still in operation in the U.S. The Castro Theatre originally opened at 479 Castro Street in 1910. The building was remodeled into a retail store - currently occupied by Cliff's Variety Store, since 1971 - in the mid-1920s after the larger Castro Theater was built up the street at 429 Castro Street. The new theatre opened in June 1922. The interior is luxurious and ornate, with subtly convex and concave walls and ceiling and the dramatic Mighty Wurlitzer Hope-Jones Unit Orchestra pipe organ that is played before films and events. It is San Francisco's last single-screen movie palace.〔 Today, the Castro Theatre hosts repertory movies, film festivals, and special events, including gay and multicultural focus. In recent years, the Castro has been the site for gala tributes to many legendary Hollywood stars making appearances with a showing of one of their movies, including Tony Curtis, Ann-Margret, Debbie Reynolds, Jane Russell, and Sandra Dee—many of the events produced by local impresario Marc Huestis.〔Wiegand, David: "Marc Huestis grew up wanting to be either and actor or president. Now the filmmaker and camp impresario is using his showmanship to promote peace" , ''San Francisco Chronicle'', July 16, 2003()〕 The theater can project modern digital formats such as DCP with 5.1 Dolby sound〔(SF Bay Guardian. Johnny Ray Huston. ''Coming soon?: A shake-up at the Castro Theatre brings change—and perhaps big trouble—for movie lovers in San Francisco.'' )〕 and can accurately reproduce the classic silent film experience by projecting custom frame rates anywhere between 12 and 30 frames per second, including the ability to speed up or slow down during a film. The Castro is capable of showing 70 mm films〔(Redballoon.net Scott E. Norwood. ''US 70mm-capable Theatre Listing'' )〕 and is one of the few theaters in the world that can show a 70 mm film with separate DTS soundtrack.〔(in70mm.com. Thomas Hauerslev. ''What is DTS 70mm?'' )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Castro Organ Devotees Association」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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