Press Room

March 6, 2007

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Media Contact: Rodger Pille, piller@cincymuseum.org, (513) 287-7054

Music in the Museum Concert Series features

British Concert Organist Wayne Marshall

Also featuring Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Assistant Principal Cellist Norman Johns

March 19, 2007 at 7:30 p.m.

CINCINNATI, OHIO—Acclaimed British Concert Organist, Wayne Marshall, will perform at Cincinnati Museum Center on the famous E. M. Skinner Symphonic Concert Pipe Organ.

Wayne Marshall—British pianist, organist and conductor—is Organist-in-Residence of Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall. He performs worldwide as a concert pianist, appeared with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in 2006, has conducted many major orchestras of Europe and has performed throughout Europe and the U.S. as an organ recitalist. Reviews include: “Wayne Marshall was the spine-tingling soloist …With Marshall, we finally got an organist with big-time flair and technique.” “Wayne Marshall’s performance was stunning from the first moment.”

Norman Johns, assistant principal cellist of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, has performed in more than 100 recordings with the CSO and Pops and has traveled the world touring with the orchestra. In 2005, Norman Johns was the recipient of the Post-Corbett Award Lifetime Achievement Award. He is an adjunct faculty member of Xavier University’s Music Department, a faculty member of the School for the Creative and Performing Arts (SCPA) and is a private music teacher.

The Program will include: Wayne Marshall, “Intrada”; Marcel Dupré, “Prelude and Fugue in B”; Gabriel Fauré, “Elegie” (with Norman Johns, Cello); Giuseppe Verdi, “Overture from La Traviata”; Max Bruch, “Kol Nidrei” (with Norman Johns, Cello); Franz Liszt, “Ad Nos ad Salutarem Undam”; Improvisation by Wayne Marshall.

The Music in the Museum concert series of Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal features internationally acclaimed concert organists performing on the renowned 1929 E. M. Skinner Symphonic Concert Pipe Organ in the lush, reverberant acoustic of the Museum Center Rotunda.

“The Skinner instrument in the Museum Center is of world class and—because of the acoustics—one of the truly greatest organs of the world,” writes Dr. Charles Callahan, author of The American Classic Organ, composer and concert organist.

“This organ is, without question, one of the finest examples of Skinner’s few surviving masterpieces.   Each stop—even the quietest of ranks—beautifully ‘couples’ with the room itself, so that each individual voice may be fully appreciated on its own. This organ can certainly produce a convincing traditional plenum sound—a brilliant classic organ forte—yet it also has a rich palate of orchestral color, making it a transcription player’s dream instrument,” writes Wanamaker Grand Court organist, Peter Richard Conte.

Tickets are $18 each. Order by phone by calling (513) 287-7001 or 1-800-733-2077, on-line at www.cincymuseum.org, or at Museum Center Box Office.

Cincinnati Museum Center gratefully acknowledges operating and capital support from the City of Cincinnati, Hamilton County and the State of Ohio.

Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal is home to the Cincinnati History Museum, Duke Energy Children's Museum, the Museum of Natural History & Science, the Robert D. Lindner Family OMNIMAX® Theater, and the Cincinnati Historical Society Library. It is a nationally recognized educational and research resource and one of the top cultural attractions in the Midwest. Cincinnati Museum Center serves more than 1.47 million visitors annually, reaching out to almost 200,000 young people through hands-on exhibits and programs. Originally built in 1933 as the Union Terminal train station, the building is a national historic landmark and was renovated and reopened as Cincinnati Museum Center in 1990. For information, call (513) 287-7000 or 1-800-733-2077 or visit www.cincymuseum.org.

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