Coronation March With Pipe Organ

[nevadaboi1]

All of you do not understand what is so important about this organ. It was build by Austin in 1915 for the Panama California Exposition. The same year they also built the Exposition Organ for the Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. The San Francisco organ was housed in Festival Hall, later moved to the Civic Auditorium now in storage. This Austin was given to the City of San Diego by John Spreckels for the Exposition. Yes it is outdoors, but the unique feature is being outdoors.

[scotto40]

Organist is good! However, I am not a fan of this organ. I wonder whose idea it was to do an outside organ. A good Acoustic contributes so much to a pipe organ. There is absolutely no acoustic outdoors. I have heard some good Austin's before, but quite frankly...this organ was a failure before it ever got started. You would think an organ builder such as Austin would have never tried such a hair-brained plan to do an outside organ. What a waste!

[hpcwsd]

@scotto40 Words of Wisdom.... STAY OUT OF SAN DIEGO ..... WE Love this outdoor organ .... (maybe you live in Ohio where having an outdoor organ concert in the middle of December is unheard of ... in San Diego ... it might be 80 degrees ! )

[hecaob1]

Congratulations Jackson, excellent performance!

[Calvado25]

I remember a few Halloween evenings ago watching the old black and white silent version of Phantom of the Opera at this San Diego venue while accompanied by the organ. What a great experience that was. And I believe it was free.

[ziper212]

Sounds like someone is puking at 0.39 xD

[ThirtyTwoFoot]

What a honker of an organ!

[ChristainPatriot01]

I wonder what it says on the placards on the console?

[bobareebop]

This is an amazing instrument. Get down to San Diego for a Sunday concert if you can. The way this instrument speaks out of doors is as I said, amazing. Plus you can play literally any kind of music on it, from Bach to orchestral transcriptions to 20th century stuff. A very versatile instrument. And you can tour inside the instrument and speak w/ the organist after the concert.

[Heyde1979]

where is this pipe organ

[insandiego]

Balboa Park San Diego,Ca.

[Heyde1979]

thanks it sounds great

[willowthebored]

Is he just going through the motions? Yes, I think so, but lets face it, how many of us can play this for a random crowd, on probably one of the most difficult instruments in the world to play (honestly, it's *outside*, how can you expect any kind of perfection when you can't even hear it blend?), and it was a nice, fun little tune for a day in the park. Credit where credit is due. Thanks for posting!

[canadianboy40]

I now crown thee organ player of the year...ahhh im so tired!!!

[antbeast01]

Enjoyed it. Thanks for shraing.

[AMTK161]

Excellent! I've never heard an arangement of this piece for organ...until now.

[daneslord]

what reverbration? Seriously....

[AulicExclusiva]

Ridiculously fast and staccato.

The middle section has no solemnity or unction of any kind. He sounds like an organ grinder.

[dersheeple]

FIne thing for an armchair "organist" to criticize a musician's difficult performance, it's FREE you dolt, if you don't like the way he played- too bad, get off your azz and produce your OWN video and put your stupid comments where your fingers are and let's just SEE how much better YOU think you are at playing this piece!

[AulicExclusiva]

What a coarse petard you are. Real low.

[dersheeple]

Looks like everybody but you had positive comments and enjoyed the performance, who really gives a flying fart about what some purist thinks about mundane insignificant tempo, registration or attack in the performance is!

He is not recording an album nor is this some organ competition or audition, he is playing for random crowd in the park- most of whom probably know nothing about organs or organ music but appreciated his performance and enjoyed it, all except for YOU AulicExclusiva.

[razoumofski]

superbe,majestueux,brillant.

Merci.

[54spiritedwill54]

just amazing! majestically brilliant indeed

[Christian1975Germany]

Wonderful powerful playing. Fantastic.

[gmmix]

Wonder why nobody commented on the selection iself, one of the grandest from perhaps the grandest grand opera of all. What a pity Meyerbeer gets such short shift these days. Tamangno, why did you leave us--at age 54?

[OrganCat]

The organist can be very precise in his execution, but I think he could compensate for the lack of reverb by not using a staccato touch everywhere.

Also with very few exceptions he uses a pedal registration that is too bright, like many carousel organs.

In those old machines, the bass notes are often out of tune and 'farty' sounding- but it's part of their charm.

[bendasbrot]

exactly i agree with you in every statement!!

[bendasbrot]

this organ does not sound outdoors -.- i agree with branchporter, this instrument needs a lot more reverb

[andyofvermont]

Its true, the outdoor nature of this instrument creates a lot of problems. The tuning will never be quite right, and no acoustics to speak of. But hey, there are lots of organs in great buildings with great acoustics but there's only one Spreckels organ! It probably wouldn't sound very good inside because it was scaled and voiced for outside.

[Branchporter]

I was about to say that this organ is in a very "dead" room with no reverberation. Then I realized where this was preformed! This was played on the worlds largest OUTDOOR organ, at the Spreckles Organ Pavilion in Balboa Park, San Diago, Ca. (Austin opus 453, 1915)

Room acoustics are very important to the sound of an organ. The lack of a room gives this organ a unique fairground or carousel organ sound. Jackson probably was emphasizing this unique sound by playing staccato.

[octave4]

The sound is a reault of the location of the mices as well as the music. It is an orchestral transcription - not originally for organ. There are several "Theather" type stops that also tend to give it a strange sound. Listen to the way the music is played rather than the individual registrations. This is a pretty good rendition of this "March"

[JonasClark]

I admit the slow sections (such as that beginning at 0:45) with their lilting accordion sound, do sound a bit like some Gavioli fairground organ. The rest, however? Very strong and powerful. I like the slight breaks.

[JonasClark]

I like his imitation of an accordion tone (is that an English Post Horn or similar?) He has a bit of nice flow. As much as Carol Williams is the city's official organist, I don't care for her style nearly as much. Either way, a beautiful instrument, and this Jackson Borges sounds good.

[Principaal]

well.. if it were a painting I'd say it to garish...

[wurli815]

OK - we will wait for you to post something better.

[bryan67gto]

There is only one word to describe this majestically brilliant!!! Ok thats two. U did a magnificent job playing this!

[zcardinal]

Excellent!