Tully Hall’s Organ Is Absent, And Partisans Grow Nervous

Alice Tully Hall has reopened to acclaim following its renovation, but the hall’s pipe organ, “a personal gift of Miss Tully herself, remains absent, dismantled and resting in limbolike storage in upstate New York. … [T]he chairman of the Juilliard School’s organ department, Paul Jacobs, and the organ’s curator, Peter Batchelder, have gone public with worries that Lincoln Center may secretly want to wash its hands of the organ.”