Spreckels Organ Society
Balboa Park, San Diego
Audio Tech Workshop Series
Free series to learn audio tech at Spreckels Organ Pavilion — no previous experience required! Click here for more information and to sign up. Classes begin Sunday, October 13 at noon.
Concert Program: Sunday Sept 8
At 2 p.m., enjoy a free hour-long Organ Concert by Civic Organist Raúl Prieto Ramírez featuring the following selections:
America the Beautiful
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
Improvisation Op.150 N.7
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Prelude in G major BWV 541
Movie time!
The Sound of Music medley
Leon Boëllman (1862-1897)
Suite Ghotique Op.25
I-Introduction-Choral
II-Menuet gothique
III-Prière à Notre-Dame
IV-Toccata
Alexandre Guilmant (1837-1911)
Sonata N.1 Op.42
II-Pastoral
III-Finale
The photos are here!
Bob Lang’s photo set from Movie Night is now uploaded … Click here:
http://sosorgan.org/photogallery/2019/190831movie/index.htm#27
Saturday Aug. 31 at 7:30 p.m.: Movie Night with Clark Wilson
The San Diego International Organ Festival finale concert is on Saturday, August 31 and will feature organist Clark Wilson playing accompaniment to two silent film comedies.
The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. with music from the American Songbook, which Mr. Wilson will play until dusk has settled, at which point CHASING CHOO CHOOS (1927) will be screened. After an intermission, the concert will conclude with SHERLOCK, JR. (1924) starring Buster Keaton. The approximate ending time of the concert is 9:30 p.m.
At the concert, Spreckels Organ Society welcomes representatives of the Pacific Southwest Railway Museum, which is staging a Centennial Commemoration on November 16 of the moment in 1919 when John D. Spreckels drove the Golden Spike to complete the San Diego & Arizona Railway. CHASING CHOO CHOOS was filmed along that railway, so eagle-eyed spotters will get a good look at San Diego’s “back country” of the 1920s. Pay a visit to the Railway Museum display table at the concert to learn more about the “Impossible Railroad” and commemorative events coming up this fall.
Concert program: Sunday Sept. 1
This Sunday, September 1, at 2 p.m., enjoy a free hour-long Organ Concert by San Diego Civic Organist Raúl Prieto Ramírez featuring the following musical selections:
America the Beautiful
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565
Fun time!
Zez Confrey (1895-1971)
Dizzy fingers (arr. Raul Prieto Ramirez)
Dietrich Buxtehude (1617-1707)
Toccata in F BuxWV 157
Louis Vierne (1870-1937)
Berçeuse (from “24 pièces en style libre” Op.31)
Movie time!
Yann Tiernsen (1970-)
La Valse d’Amélie (from 6 pieces for piano)
Leon Boëllman (1862-1897)
Suite Ghotique
I-Introduction-Choral
II-Menuet gothique
III-Prière à Notre-Dame
IV-Toccata
National Anthem
Jared Jacobsen: An Appreciation
Civic Organist Raúl Prieto Ramírez
Photos from 2001-today
Click to see the Index Page of a photo gallery that documents more than 400 concerts over the years.
