This is an outdoor Easter Sunrise Service at Spreckels Organ Pavilion, San Diego, California, April 8, 2012, hosted by La Jolla Presbyterian. Bill Lullo, organ

From the Spreckels Organ website:
John D. and Adolph Spreckels donated the Spreckels Organ, one of the world's largest outdoor pipe organs, to the City of San Diego in 1914 for the Panama-California Exposition. This unique organ contains 4,530 pipes ranging in length from the size of a pencil to 32 feet and is housed in an ornate vaulted structure with highly embellished gables.
John D. Spreckels, son of sugar magnate Claus Spreckels decided to move to Coronado, California after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
Spreckels followed the philosophy of the Good Steward in the New Testament, as did his siblings and father. Spreckels' gifts to San Diego and Coronado were many. Spreckels also wanted the Panama-California Exposition to succeed and show San Diego to the world in a good light. He contributed and promoted the Exposition. He gave the organ pavilion as a gift to "the people of San Diego" and "the people of all the world".

Spreckels chose Harrison Albright to design the Organ Pavilion. Albright was a self-taught Los Angeles architect, who previously designed the U. S. Grant Hotel in downtown San Diego. The semi-circular pavilion was built in an ornate Italian-Renaissance design. Spreckels donated $33,500 for the Organ and $66,500 for the Pavilion. The organ was dedicated December 31, 1914.

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