Theatre Organ Society of San Diego (TOSSD)

Theatre Organ Society of San Diego presents: Silent Movie Night, Saturday, February 9, 2019 at 6 PM. Featuring the 1925 Silent Film Cyrano de Bergerac with authentic music accompaniment by Russ Peck on the Mighty Wurlitzer Theatre Organ. Location: 3902 Kenwood Drive, Spring Valley, near 94 and Spring Street Tickets on sale $15.00 at the door only. Box Office opens at 5 PM with an antique car display. Plenty of FREE parking.

Saturday, November 17 at 6PM Greg Breed accompanies The Kid Brother, a 1927 American classic comedy film starring Harold Lloyd and Jobyna Ralston. Their on-screen chemistry led to seven films together. The film was successful and popular upon release and today is considered by critics and fans to be one of Lloyd's best films, integrating elements of comedy, romance, drama, and character development. One source cites The Kid Brother as the most popular film in 1927. We invite you to bring friends and family to this charming film accompanied accurately as it would have been in 1927 by Greg Breed. Tickets at Box Office only at $15pp.The box office at Trinity Facilities, 3902 Kenwood Drive, Spring Valley, (near Spring St) will open at 5PM with the arrival of our friends from AACA with their vintage vehicles.

Saturday, October 13, 2018 6PM Tommy Stark accompanies the Silent Classic...The Son of the Shiek (1926). $15.00 pp Tommy Stark is a familiar name to many San Diego music fans as he is a local talent who was raised in San Diego and graduated from Mt. Miguel High School. A musician since 1956, he was a regular performer at the Organ Power Pizza Restaurants in San Diego delighting patrons with his musical abilities specializing in big band renditions on their theatre pipe orga...ns. He owned Southland Music in Lemon Grove at the Grove Theatre where he had his own theatre pipe organ installation and pizza restaurant. He has performed at many venues including many in San Diego, and was organist for Xavier Cugat and Charro’s 20 piece orchestra at Caesar’s Palace. Tommy currently splits his time between Hilo, HI where he plays for silent films and concerts at the Mighty Palace Theatre Pipe Organ and weekend performances at Fiddler’s Green Restaurant on Shelter Island. See more

Saturday, September 22 at 2 PM at Trinity Facilities, TOSSD will present the extraordinary Theatre Organist, Jonas Nordwall. Box office opens at 1:30..tickets at the door $15.00. Jonas Nordwall is a native of Portland, Oregon. He learned to play the accordion when he was only four-years-old, and at the age of 16, Jonas performed for King Gustav Adolf during a tour of Sweden. At the age of ten, Jonas continued his musical education by taking piano and organ lessons from Portla...nd teacher, Goldie Pos. At the 1966 American Theatre Organ Enthusiasts convention in Portland, Jonas was a featured artist, playing the Rodgers Model 33-E electronic organ. Jonas studied piano, organ, and orchestration with Arthur Hitchcock and graduated from the University of Portland in 1970 with a Bachelor of Music Degree in organ performance. Additional organ studies were with Frederick Geoghegan, Richard Ellsasser, and Richard Purvis. Jonas has been the organist at Portland's First United Methodist Church since 1971. He currently holds the title, Artistic Director of Music and Organist. He is the organist for the Oregon Symphony Orchestra and has made several recordings with the orchestra. Jonas was also Senior Staff Organist for ten years at the Organ Grinder pizza restaurant in Portland. An organist equally skilled in both classical and popular music, Jonas has presented concerts all over the world and has produced over 25 highly acclaimed recordings. The American Theatre Organ Society named him Organist of the Year in 1987. He has been a frequent performer at ATOS conventions and at regional conventions of the American Guild of Organists. He has appeared on television programs in both the United States and Australia, and his recordings are often heard on Pipe Dreams, a syndicated PBS radio program. The design and manufacture of pipe organs and electronic organs has always interested Jonas, and he was associated with the Rodgers Instrument Corporation for over 30 years. Jonas is currently affiliated with the Allen Artists Program.

Ken Double Program, Saturday May 12, 2018 at 2 PM Tickets at the door, $15.00. Box office opens at 1:30 Plenty of Free Parking.... It is not often that one gets paid to have fun for a living. It is even rarer still when having fun and getting paid for it professionally happens twice in life. Such has been the good professional fortune of Ken Double, the President and Chief Executive of the American Theatre Organ Society....Continue reading

The Theatre Organ Society of San Diego proudly presents its Silent Movie Night with music accompaniment by Adam Aceto, this Saturday night at 6 PM. Tickets at the door only. Box office opens at 5 PM.

The Theatre Organ Society of San Diego proudly presents Silent Movie Night with movie accompaniment by Adam Aceto on Saturday, March 24th at 6 PM.