Widor Toccata - Paul Jacobs plays the Hazel Wright Organ

Grammy Award-winning organist Paul Jacobs performs Charles-Marie 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 Aeolian-Skinner 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 Saint-Sacrement) and is considered “America’s leading organ performer.“ At age 23 he performed the complete organ works of J.S. Bach in an 18-hour non-stop 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