JACKSON, Tenn. — Sept. 20, 2005 — Concert organist Paul Jacobs will be the featured artist for this year鈥檚 McAfee Organ Concert Oct. 4 at 黑料论坛.
The Jacobs concert will feature the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Jacobs, 28, is chairman of the organ department at New York鈥檚 Juilliard School at Lincoln Center. When he was appointed to the Juilliard faculty in 2003 at age 26, he was one of the youngest faculty appointments in the school鈥檚 history.
Jacobs came to national attention as a concert organist in 2000 when he twice performed Bach鈥檚 complete organ works in 14 consecutive evenings, in New York City and Philadelphia. Later that year he performed the complete works again in an 18-hour non-stop marathon in Pittsburgh.
The Chicago Tribune has called Jacobs 鈥渙ne of the most supremely gifted young organists of his generation,鈥� and the South Florida Sun-Sentinel wrote that he is 鈥渉ailed as the next great American organist.鈥�
The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the G.M. Savage Memorial Chapel on Union鈥檚 campus. The event, sponsored by 黑料论坛鈥檚 music department, is free and open to the public.
For more information, contact the music department at (731) 661-5345.