Fisk inaugural concerts at Organ County Performing Arts Center
Marking the debut of the stunning William J. Gillespie Concert Organ, this season-opening celebration features Bach’s wonderfully melodramatic Toccata and Fugue — which has been used in films, video games and even rock songs. Also on the program: Saint-Saens’ roof-raising Symphony No. 3.
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After a full year of voicing Opus 130 is complete in the new Segerstrom Performing Arts Center in Orange County, California. The silvery front pipes and casework, aluminum-leafed by The Gilder's Studio, were installed in the summer of 2006, so that the organ, designed in consultation with Pelli Clark Pelli Architects, could play its visual role in the opening of the hall later that year.
The rest of the 4,322 pipes, the mechanical key action, the chests, and the wind system were installed in the early summer of 2007, safe from the dust and noise of building construction. The organ is the fourth symphony hall instrument from the Fisk firm, taking its place alongside Dallas, Seattle, and Yokohama in the list of large modern tracker action instruments with the power to match that of the full symphony orchestra.
