LONDON, July 27:
Paul Jacobs says the organ can be the “loneliest instrument” but as the winner of the first Grammy for a solo organ CD, touring with world-famous orchestras and as head of the organ department at the Juilliard school, he is fast building a following. The audience was on its feet at Westminster Cathedral in London on Wednesday night as Jacobs, who is 35 and on the short of side of average, played a tour-de-force recital that started, in an American’s nod to Britain, with the only organ sonata written by Elgar, and ended with French composer Jeanne Demessieux’s fiendish “Octaves,” which seems to demand the performer have three arms and four feet. (agencies)
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