Widor Toccata Paul Jacobs plays the Hazel Wright Organ

Grammy Awardwinning organist Paul Jacobs performs CharlesMarie Widor s famous Toccata from Symphony No. 5 on the Hazel Wright Organ at Christ Cathedral, Garden Grove, CA. Hazel is the fifth largest organ in the world, with more than 17, 000 pipes and nearly 300 ranks. It combines the 1962 AeolianSkinner instrument from Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City with the 1977 Ruffatti organ originally built for the Garden Grove Community Church (later the Crystal Cathedral). Paul Jacobs is the first organist to receive a Grammy Award (for Olivier Messiaen s towering Livre du SaintSacrement) and is considered America s leading organ At age 23 he performed the complete organ works of J. S. Bach in an 18hour nonstop marathon concert, and at age 26 was appointed chair of the Organ Department at The Juilliard School. Jacobs, known for a prodigious musical memory, has performed on five continents and in each of the 50 United States, and as a con