The Spooky Science of Pipe Organs

When

October 24, 2026    
11:30 am - 2:30 pm

Where

National Music Museum
University of South Dakota, 414 E. Clark Street, Vermillion, South Dakota, 57069

Event Type

Get into the Halloween spirit with haunting organ music and fascinating science at the National Music Museum! Former NMM intern Tommy Gress will perform Bach’s Toccata in D Minor and Gounod’s Funeral March of a Marionette on the NMM’s 200-year-old Dieffenbach pipe organ (NMM 04905), followed by a chance to discover how pipe organs work through the NMM’s ā€œOrgan Experience,ā€ featuring the assembly of a miniature pipe organ.

Admission is free, thanks to support from the Margaret Ann Martin Everist Foundation. Learn more at http://www.nmmusd.org.

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