The Cavaille Coll pipe organ at San Sulpice was the highest evolution
of the classical romantic, orchestrally imitative, pipe organ before
that evolution branched out to form the theater organ -- totally
orchestral, American/British style of organ building development.

The great Fats Waller was quoted as saying about one of his trips to San
Sulpice, "Mr. Widor played the God Box and then I sat down to play the
God Box," referring to Carl Marie Widor, composer of organ symphonies.
The well-known Widor "Toccata" is the fifth movement of an organ
symphony.

D.L. Bullock    St. Louis
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