Municipal Auditorium / Kansas City Convention Center
301 W. 13th Street
Kansas City,
MO
64105 US
Music Hall
Organ ID: 4588
There were actually two dedications: After the instrument was enlarged to its present 28 ranks it was rededicated on September 15, 1995, in a program featured by the William Jewell Fine Arts Program for a showing of the classic 1926 silent film "La Boheme" starring Lillian Gish, with Dennis James at the console. Lyn Larsen presided over the Robert Morton organ on December 2, 1995, at the Music Hall for its second public outing.
Status Note: There 1995.
Built for Loew's Midland Theatre, Kansas City. Sold to Robert Fray as residence organ late 1960s. Sold to Organ Power Pizza Parlor in Solana Beach, California. Then donated to Columbus, Ohio, civic center, but never installed. Sold to Kansas City Theatre Pipe Organ Club in 1986. Installed here by volunteers. Tonal finishing by Century Organ Co., Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Lyn Larsen. Some pipes replaced (orchestral oboe, kinura, trumpet installed).