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Music in the Museum

                                                                           

    


      
  

    

            

    	
		

    
  


        

    
    	
 

	The Winifred and Emil Barrows

	Music in the Museum Concert Series


Presenting sponsor: The Corbett Foundation


Our E.M. Skinner Symphonic Organ has been called one of the finest in the world. Hearing it in the lush, reverberant acoustics of our Rotunda is an experience unlike any other. Don't miss these world-renowned musicians and performances. All concerts start at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $18. Parking is free.


Click here to buy tickets online, or call (513) 287-7001.



	Recent concerts


Monday, April 23, 2012, 7:30 p.m.

	Frédéric Champion with the Xavier University Concert Choir,

	Tom Merrill, Director, and the Xavier University Women’s Chorus, Robert Vance, Director.


FRÉDÉRIC CHAMPION is the winner of the 2008 Canadian International Organ Competition, and has performed organ music of the 16th through the 21st century as a solo organist and with orchestras and choirs around the world. Mr. Champion studied at the Conservatoire de Région in Lyon with Louis Robilliard, and at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris. Mr. Champion has been heard on Radio-France, Austrian radio stations and Japanese TV/Radio broadcasts.


PROGRAM: C. Debussy, Nocturnes (Clouds, Festivals, Sirens) (with Women’s Chorus); J. Alain, Intermezzo; G. Verdi, Stabat Mater (with Choir); C. Franck, Choral in E Major; F. Liszt, St. Francis of Paola Walking on the Waves; and C. Franck, Symphonic Interlude from Redemption. Transcriptions are by Frédéric Champion.



    	
 
About the E.M. Skinner Concert Organ


You may have seen the console for our grand E. M. Skinner Concert Pipe Organ near the OMNIMAX Theater. The organ is separated into "divisions," with certain sets of pipes located in each and played from one of the four keyboards or the pedal board. The divisions are hidden in rooms along the perimeter of the Rotunda—behind facades resembling ticket counters toward the back of the Rotunda, and the recently completed Antiphonal division is located above the entrance to the Cincinnati History Museum. In total, the organ has more than 4,000 pipes!


The Rotunda has a reverberation time of approximately five seconds and has been described by Cincinnati Enquirer classical music critic Janelle Gelfand as "an ideal environment for an organ."