Paul Jacobs, organ: 20th season of organ overture concerts

Paul Jacobs, Grammy Award-winning organist and Juilliard professor, opens the festival’s 20th anniversary season with a program featuring Liszt’s powerful Fantasy and Fugue on “Ad nos, ad salutarem undam.” You won’t want to miss Mr. Jacob’s incredible technique and artistry, which will be on full display as we kick off this celebratory season! – Grzegorz Zelek

Program

Felix Mendelssohn, Organ Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 65, No. 1

Cesar Franck, Prelude, Fugue and Variation Op.18

Charles Ives, Variations on “America”

Johann Sebastian Bach, Arioso from Cantata No. 156

Franz Liszt, Fantasy and Fugue on the chorale “Um, towards the saving wave”