{"id":237711,"date":"2015-06-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/not-a-fair-organ\/"},"modified":"2015-06-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T07:00:00","slug":"not-a-fair-organ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/not-a-fair-organ\/","title":{"rendered":"No es un \u00f3rgano 'justo'"},"content":{"rendered":"

Por Carol Williams | Organista C\u00edvico Noticias<\/p>\n

This year will be a first at the San Diego County Fair in Del Mar. The folks at the fair are going to celebrate the Centennial of Balboa Park and our great Spreckels Organ with a live organ performance.<\/p>\n

The garden area of the fair is being transformed to commemorate Balboa Park and will also have a mini Spreckels Pavilion built. Wow, how fun!<\/p>\n

As San Diego Civic Organist, I was approached to participate in the exhibit by performing mini organ concerts daily at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n

My husband-manager and I took a visit to the fairgrounds and it\u2019s hard to imagine how the vast empty parking lots would be filled with such mirth and merriment. The excitement of the staff was contagious as they walked us around pointing out their plans and the placement of everything. It didn\u2019t take long before we were totally motivated and eager to be involved.<\/p>\n

Throughout my career I have played in some remarkable places in the world, but this event may very well be one of the most amusing.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Carol Williams with the hybrid organ she is taking to the San Diego County Fair.
(Cortes\u00eda Carol Williams)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So, now what about an organ? No way could the Spreckels pipe organ in Balboa Park take a road trip.<\/p>\n

Well, this fair opportunity just happened to present itself at the same time my manager was setting up an affiliation with Rodgers Instruments for me. (I love how positive things happen together when you keep a positive attitude in life.) Rodgers is a branch of Roland \u2014 the worldwide\u00a0respected leader in\u00a0hybrid installations. They have the technology to easily combine pipes with electronics, which makes upgrading, expanding or the replacement of pipe organs very economical. So we asked if they were interested in lending us an instrument for the fair, and not only did they say yes, they decided to sponsor the event with their largest instrument.<\/p>\n

A four manual of wow! Not just a classical organ, this instrument can do anything. I mean anything! The tonal resources of this organ are expanded with stereo-imaged pipe organ sounds, full orchestrations and percussion. Just wait until you hear me play this mammoth instrument at the fair.<\/p>\n

Now I needed many days, even weeks to fully understand the intricacies of this powerful instrument, so Rodgers delivered the organ to our home for me. I own several of what I thought to be large instruments, including a 7-foot grand piano, but on delivery day, the crew stood in front of the house with a tape measure in hand, a really large crate \u2014 and a door too small.<\/p>\n

Almost with tears in my eyes, I exclaimed, \u201cBut it\u2019s a regular entrance door size!\u201d They all just stared at me. This was not a good situation, however I was totally determined to get this thing in my home.<\/p>\n

My husband \u2014 not wanting to face my wrath \u2014 with power-saw in hand and French doors at the ready, cut a large hole in the house. Oh my! In three hours we had two beautiful, 10-light french doors in place and a wonderful organ uncrated in my music room ready to play.<\/p>\n

Now for the last two months I have been making friends with that Rodgers Infinity 484 and we like each other! The music I can play is marvelous and fascinating. Along with the usual classical stuff, she and I will perform great jazz, blues, honky tonk and thousands of combinations of orchestrations.<\/p>\n

She, of course, goes traveling next week to her temporary new home in the Garden exhibit at the San Diego Fair and I will meet up with her and play a concert every day of the fair at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n

Come along if you can.<\/p>\n

\u2014La organista c\u00edvica Carol Williams se enorgullece de servir como embajadora del campo de las artes y la cultura de San Diego. A trav\u00e9s de sus conciertos en el pa\u00eds y en el extranjero, Carol ofrece una nueva versi\u00f3n del concierto de \u00f3rgano cl\u00e1sico. Est\u00e1 comprometida a iluminar el colorido romance de San Diego con el \u201cRey de los Instrumentos\u201d, siempre buscando llevar el \u00f3rgano a nuevas audiencias. Para m\u00e1s informaci\u00f3n visite sosorgan.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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