The Walt Disney Concert Hall organ

Thomas Ospital

Organ Recital

Sun / Feb 8, 2026 - 7:30PM

Program

- VIERNE
- Organ Symphony No. 3
- Intermission
- SAINT-SAËNS
- Danse macabre
- trans. Louis Robilliard
- RAVEL
- Le tombeau de Couperin (orchestral suite)
- trans. Thomas Ospital
- Thomas OSPITAL
- Improvisation

Artists

Thomas Ospital, organ

About this Performance

While he claims there’s no “ready recipe” for improvisation, Thomas Ospital can whip up ingenious on-the-spot renditions of everything from classical staples and national anthems to “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.” See what the French organist comes up with next—following Vierne’s booming and lavishly chromatic symphony, Saint-Saëns’ spooky Danse macabre, and Ravel’s light-hearted memorial piece—when he makes his Walt Disney Concert Hall debut.

This performance is generously supported by Mari L. Danihel.

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The Walt Disney Concert Hall Organ

Architect Frank Gehry devoted a great deal of time to the design. He worked with Los Angeles organ designer and builder Manuel J. Rosales to create something different from a typical church organ with its rows and rows of metal tubes. Gehry’s initial designs included pipes hanging from the ceiling and the organist in a cage halfway up the wall. Rosales found the concepts fanciful and marvelous, but he knew there was no way they would lead to the construction of a practical musical instrument.

Artist Frank Gehry and organ builder Manuel Rosales collaborated on the visual design of the organ.