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The Spreckels Organ is a pipe organ that was designed by Ernest M. Skinner. It was installed in 1924 at the Legion of Honor museum in San Francisco , California. Public performances are held on Saturdays, 4:00–4:45 pm.
The Spreckels Organ Pavilion is an outdoor venue that houses the open-air Spreckels Organ in Balboa Park in San Diego, California.With more than 5,000 pipes, the Spreckels Organ is the world's largest pipe organ in a fully outdoor venue.
In 1924, John D. Spreckels commissioned the Ernest M. Skinner Company of Boston to build the symphonic organ, which is centrally located in the Spreckels Gallery (gallery 10). It was designed to blend into the museum's structure; its 4,500 pipes are not visible to visitors, hidden behind the trompe-l'œil ceiling painted to resemble a marble ...
Spreckels paid the salaries of a resident organ tuner and of the organist for many years, providing free daily organ concerts. Both Spreckels Elementary School in San Diego and Spreckels Park in Coronado, California, are named for him. [22] [23]
Carol Anne Williams D.M.A., ARAM, FRCO, FTCL, ARCM (born 1972) is a British-born international concert organist and composer, now residing in America. She served from October 2001 and resigned her post in October 2016 [1] [2] [3] [non-primary source needed] as Civic Organist for the city of San Diego, California, performing regularly at the Spreckels Organ Pavilion.
Spreckels Organ Pavilion, built for the 1915 fair and virtually unchanged since Plaza de Panama , an open space surrounded by the San Diego Museum of Art, the Timken Museum of Art , the House of Hospitality and the House of Charm; originally an open pedestrian plaza; used for parking in recent decades; currently closed to parking and being ...
Spreckels Organ, San Francisco, donated by Adolph B. Spreckels, at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Spreckels .
The Spreckels Mansion in San Francisco. Adolph Bernard Spreckels (January 5, 1857 – June 28, 1924) was a California businessman who ran the Spreckels Sugar Company and who donated the California Palace of the Legion of Honor art museum to the city of San Francisco in 1924. His wife, Alma, was called the "great grandmother of San Francisco". [1]