About The Series

One of Cincinnati’s best kept secrets, the 1929 Grand E.M. Skinner Symphonic Concert Organ, is the centerpiece for Music in the Museum, a concert series hosted three times a year at Cincinnati Museum Center. We are excited to announce the 2024-2025 Music in the Museum series, where we look forward to sharing the glorious sounds of the organ with you.

From Janelle Gelfand’s Janelle Notes:
Demers provided her own wow factor in her transcription of Stravinsky’s “The Firebird Suite.” She reproduced every orchestral sound of the difficult score on the organ. It was a magical and thrilling performance. In the audience was Michael Barone, host of “Pipedreams” on American Public Media, who told the large crowd assembled, “There is no other organ like this in this kind of setting, anywhere. You have a treasure.”

About The Instrument

From 1987–2010, the 1929 Grand E. M. Skinner Symphonic Concert Organ was restored and installed in specially designed organ chambers. The main chambers are located on either side of the Rotunda where it meets the rear concourse. The antiphonal division is over the entrance to the Cincinnati History Museum. The organ has nearly 5,000 pipes played from a console with four manual keyboards.