Acclaimed organist Raúl Prieto Ramírez will present the annual Donia Organ Recital at Hope College on Tuesday, Sept. 26, at 7 p.m. in the Concert Hall of Jack H. Miller Center for Musical Arts.
San Diego Civic Organist and Artistic Director of the Spreckels Organ Society
With words such as “sizzling”, iconoclastic”, “impeccable”, and “transcendent” used to describe his performances, Raúl Prieto Ramírez is the first Spanish organist in recent times to establish himself among the elite of the international pipe organ scene. The powerful personality, passionate expressiveness, gift for communication, and outstanding technique of Spanish organist Raúl Prieto Ramírez make him shine in a wide range of repertoire and styles (
Los Angeles Philharmonic).
In December 2017, Raúl Prieto Ramírez was appointed the San Diego Civic Organist and Artistic Director of the Spreckels Organ Society, where he presides over the famed Austin organ at the city’s Balboa Park Pavilion the largest open-air musical instrument in the world. Mr. Ramírez is the eighth Civic Organist to serve San Diego on the Spreckels organ bench.
The 1750 Joseph Gabler Organ at Weingarten December 23, 2020
Michael McNeil
Michael McNeil has designed, constructed, and researched pipe organs since 1973. He was also a research engineer in the disk drive industry with twenty-seven patents. He has authored four hardbound books, among them
The Sound of Pipe Organs, several e-publications, and many journal articles.
Very few organs survive the depredations of time. Some are the victims of wars and fires, but most are the victims of the good intentions and interventions driven by changing tastes in sound. Those few that have survived such calamities usually have something special about them in their sound or their visual impact. The 1750 Joseph Gabler organ at Weingarten, Germany, is special on both counts its dramatic chorus makes music come alive, and the architecture of its casework and façade is a stunning tour de force.
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