Pittsburgh Area Theatre Organ Society, Inc.

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Rosa Rio has died just shy of her 108th birthday.  She was the last remaining organist that played for the silent films prior to the advent of “talkies”.  She played silents at the Tampa Theatre in Florida almost to the end.  Below is a very interesting TV news clip made by FOX News when she was 105.  The two pictures at the bottom of this page were taken in 1934 and 2007.