Spreckels Organ Society Monday Night Opening Concert, June 27, 2022
by Mark Gabrish Conlan • Copyright © 2022 by Mark Gabrish Conlan • All rights reserved Last night my husband Charles and I met at the Spreckels Organ Pavilion in Balboa Park for the opening concert in the 34th annual (not counting 2020, where because of the COVID-19 pandemic there was no such series – indeed, I vividly remember riding on a bus past Balboa Park in the early days of the lockdown and everything was sealed off with crime-scene tape) Summer Organ Festival every Monday night at 7:30 p.m. through September 5. The theme of this year’s series is “Women in Music,” apparently a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment two years late. All the organists featured in the series are women except for San Diego’s resident civic organist, Raúl Prieto Ramírez, and Jelani Eddington, who’s doing next week’s concert right on the Fourth of July. What’s more, at least last night’s opening concert featured two women performers, violinist Hanah Stuart and cellis