About San Diego's Cherished Balboa Park Pipe Organ (NY Times)

From The New York Times:

By Craig Whitney, Published: April 28, 2007

There's an organ in San Diegos' Balboa Park that is unique for meany reasons.

The organ is owned by the city of San Diego, which is one of the few communties that still maintain an old American tradition of having an organist on the city payroll.

It is touted as the the largest outdoor pipe organ in the country, though the Chautauqua Institution in upstate New York has a larger one in an open-air auditorium — but it has a roof.
It is to be found in a “pavilion” in Balboa Park, which opened on New Year’s Eve in 1914, for an exposition celebrating the completion of the Panama Canal.

Craig Whiteney writes about the organ, its role in the fabric of the community, and the present day challenges of maintaining and preserving this open air instrument.

For more, see the complete article at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/28/arts/music/28orga.html