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| Monday Evening Organ Concerts All Summer |
STARTS MONDAY—Free summer-long organ
concerts in Balboa Park begin Monday with opening night of the Summer
International Organ Festival, June 24 at 7:30 pm. That’s in addition to a traditional schedule
of free weekly Sunday concerts at the almost 100-year old Spreckels Organ
Pavilion.
Mondays.
San
Diego Civic Organist Dr. Carol Williams inaugurates the 2013 Spreckels Organ
Society’s Summer International Organ Festival, the first of 10 free organ
concert under the stars in Balboa Park.
Special guests for the first night include The House of Scotland Pipe
Band (these musicians know how to make a bold entrance) and Kengo Ito Marimba.
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| Civic Organist Carol Williams with the House of Scotland Pipe Band, June 24. |
Monday
night’s program will begin with a bell serenade from the Carillon de Balboa
Park atop the California Tower with Ms. Gina Seashore bell side.
Summer International Organ Festival Line up:
July
1 Cheryl and Wayne Sepalla
July
8 Richard Hills
July
15 Daryl Robinson and Anelle
Gregory
July
22 Jane Watts
July
29 Barbara Dennerlein
August
3 Robert Plimpton
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| Spreckels Organ Pavilion built in 1914 |
August
19 Dennis James’ Silent Movie Night
August
26 Carol Williams
Sundays.
Most
Sundays (weather or events permitting) there has been a free Sunday organ
concert at the Spreckels Organ Pavilion since 1917. This year is no exception.
Ongoing
organ concerts, under the direction of San Diego Civic Organist Dr. Carol
Williams, take place 2 pm to 3 pm. More
info: 619-702-8138.
John
D. and Adolph Spreckels donated the organ bearing their name to the City of San
Diego in 1914 for the Panama-California Exposition of 1915-16. One of the world’s largest outdoor pipe
organs, the Spreckels organ contains 4,530 pipes ranging in length from the
size of a pencil to 32 feet and is house in an architecturally pleasing vaulted
enclosure with period embellishments by Harrison Albright, architect.
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