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free encyclopedia</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">American organist (1912–1980)</div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Fox_virgil.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/78/Fox_virgil.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="225" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="220" data-file-height="225" /></a><figcaption>Virgil Fox</figcaption></figure><p><b>Virgil Keel Fox</b> (May 3, 1912 in <a href="/wiki/Princeton,_Illinois" title="Princeton, Illinois">Princeton, Illinois</a> – October 25, 1980 in <a href="/wiki/Palm_Beach,_Florida" title="Palm Beach, Florida">Palm Beach, Florida</a>) was an American <a href="/wiki/Organist" title="Organist">organist</a>, known especially for his years as organist at <a href="/wiki/Riverside_Church" title="Riverside Church">Riverside Church</a> in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>, from 1946 to 1965, and his flamboyant "Heavy Organ" concerts of the music of <a href="/wiki/Bach" class="mw-redirect" title="Bach">Bach</a> in the 1970s, staged complete with light shows.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His many recordings made on the <a href="/wiki/RCA_Victor" class="mw-redirect" title="RCA Victor">RCA Victor</a> and <a href="/wiki/Capitol_Records" title="Capitol Records">Capitol</a> labels, mostly in the 1950s and 1960s, have been remastered and re-released on <a href="/wiki/Compact_disc" title="Compact disc">compact disc</a> in recent years. They continue to be widely available in mainstream music stores. </p><meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Birth_and_studies">Birth and studies</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Virgil_Fox&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Birth and studies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox" style="width: 180px; clear: right; float:right;margin:0 0 1.5em 1.5em"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:115%">External audio</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="audio icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Nuvola_apps_arts.svg/16px-Nuvola_apps_arts.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Nuvola_apps_arts.svg/24px-Nuvola_apps_arts.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Nuvola_apps_arts.svg/32px-Nuvola_apps_arts.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></span></span> You may listen to Virgil Fox performing works by <a href="/wiki/C%C3%A9sar_Franck" title="César Franck">César Franck</a> in 1955 <br /> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/lp_franck-grande-piece-symphonique-reubke-s_virgil-fox/disc1/01.01.+Sonata+For+Organ+On+The+94th+Psalm.mp3"><b>Here on archive.org</b></a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="audio icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Nuvola_apps_arts.svg/16px-Nuvola_apps_arts.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Nuvola_apps_arts.svg/24px-Nuvola_apps_arts.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Nuvola_apps_arts.svg/32px-Nuvola_apps_arts.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></span></span> Virgil Fox performs Johann Sebastian Bach's Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor, BWV 582 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/lp_virgil-fox-plays-the-philharmonic-hall-org_virgil-fox-johann-sebastian-bach-olivier-m/disc1/01.01.+Passacaglia+And+Fugue+In+C+Minor.mp3"><b>Here on archive.org</b></a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Virgil Fox was born on May 3, 1912, in <a href="/wiki/Princeton,_Illinois" title="Princeton, Illinois">Princeton, Illinois</a>, to Miles and Birdie Fox, a farming family.<sup id="cite_ref-Sun_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sun-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Snyder_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Snyder-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Showing musical talent at an early age, he began playing the organ for church services as a ten-year old as well as at a local movie theater "APOLLO THEATER" owned by his father.<sup id="cite_ref-Time_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Time-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Four years later, Fox made his concert debut before an audience of 2,500 at <a href="/wiki/Withrow_High_School_(Cincinnati,_Ohio)" class="mw-redirect" title="Withrow High School (Cincinnati, Ohio)">Withrow High School</a> in <a href="/wiki/Cincinnati,_Ohio" class="mw-redirect" title="Cincinnati, Ohio">Cincinnati, Ohio</a>. The program included one of the mainstays of 19th-century organ music: <a href="/wiki/Felix_Mendelssohn" title="Felix Mendelssohn">Mendelssohn</a>'s <i>Sonata No. 1 in F minor</i>. </p><p>From 1926 to 1930, he studied in <a href="/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a> under German-born organist-composer <a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_Middelschulte" title="Wilhelm Middelschulte">Wilhelm Middelschulte</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Snyder_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Snyder-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His other principal teachers were Hugh Price, Louis Robert, and (once he had moved to France) <a href="/wiki/Louis_Vierne" title="Louis Vierne">Louis Vierne</a> and <a href="/wiki/Marcel_Dupr%C3%A9" title="Marcel Dupré">Marcel Dupré</a>. He was an alumnus of the <a href="/wiki/Peabody_Institute" title="Peabody Institute">Peabody Institute</a> of Music in <a href="/wiki/Baltimore" title="Baltimore">Baltimore</a>, where he became the first student to complete the course for the Artist's Diploma within a year, at age 18.<sup id="cite_ref-Sun_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sun-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By the age of nineteen, he had already performed for enthusiastic audiences at London's <a href="/wiki/Kingsway_Hall" title="Kingsway Hall">Kingsway Hall</a> and New York City's <a href="/wiki/Carnegie_Hall" title="Carnegie Hall">Carnegie Hall</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-google.com_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-google.com-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_career">Early career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Virgil_Fox&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Beginning in 1936, Fox was organist at <a href="/wiki/Brown_Memorial_Presbyterian_Church" title="Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church">Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church</a> in Baltimore while teaching at Peabody.<sup id="cite_ref-Sun_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sun-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During August and September, 1938, he played in Great Britain and Germany; Fox was the first non-German organist given permission to perform publicly in the <a href="/wiki/Thomaskirche" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomaskirche">Thomaskirche</a> in <a href="/wiki/Leipzig" title="Leipzig">Leipzig</a>—a special occasion, since <a href="/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach" title="Johann Sebastian Bach">Bach</a> served as <a href="/wiki/Cantor_(church)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cantor (church)">cantor</a> of the Thomaskirche until his death in 1750.<sup id="cite_ref-TX_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TX-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also served as head of Peabody's Organ Department from 1938 until 1942.<sup id="cite_ref-google.com_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-google.com-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Military_service">Military service</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Virgil_Fox&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Military service"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During World War II, Fox enlisted in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army_Air_Forces" title="United States Army Air Forces">United States Army Air Forces</a> and took a leave of absence from <a href="/wiki/Brown_Memorial_Presbyterian_Church" title="Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church">Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church</a> in Baltimore and the Peabody.<sup id="cite_ref-Sun_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sun-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was promoted to <a href="/wiki/Staff_sergeant" title="Staff sergeant">staff sergeant</a> and played various recitals and services at the request of Eleanor Roosevelt. He served on her Home Hospitality Committee and entertained returning troops who were in Walter Reed Hospital, by playing a piano he pushed around, and joining in with two others. They sang funny and rather raunchy songs to the bedridden. After having played more than 600 concerts while on duty, he was discharged from the Army Air Forces in 1946.<sup id="cite_ref-google.com_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-google.com-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Riverside_Church">Riverside Church</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Virgil_Fox&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Riverside Church"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox" style="width: 180px; clear: right; float:right;margin:0 0 1.5em 1.5em"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:115%">External audio</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="audio icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Nuvola_apps_arts.svg/16px-Nuvola_apps_arts.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Nuvola_apps_arts.svg/24px-Nuvola_apps_arts.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Nuvola_apps_arts.svg/32px-Nuvola_apps_arts.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></span></span> You may listen to Virgil Fox performing <a href="/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach" title="Johann Sebastian Bach">Johann Sebastian Bach</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/Jesu,_Joy_of_Man%27s_Desiring" title="Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring">Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring</a>" at the Riverside Church in 1958 <br /> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/02BachJesuJoyOfMansDesiring"><b>Here on archive.org</b></a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="audio icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Nuvola_apps_arts.svg/16px-Nuvola_apps_arts.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Nuvola_apps_arts.svg/24px-Nuvola_apps_arts.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Nuvola_apps_arts.svg/32px-Nuvola_apps_arts.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></span></span> You may listen to Virgil Fox performing Bach's "<a href="/wiki/Air_on_the_G_String" title="Air on the G String">Air on the G String</a>" at the Riverside Church in 1958 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/11BachOrchestralSuite3InDBWV1068AirOnTheGString"><br /> <b>Here on archive.org</b></a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Fox then served as organist at the prominent <a href="/wiki/Riverside_Church" title="Riverside Church">Riverside Church</a> in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>, from 1946 to 1965. The church's original <a href="/wiki/Hook_and_Hastings" class="mw-redirect" title="Hook and Hastings">Hook and Hastings</a> organ installed in 1930 was rebuilt at his insistence by famed organ builder <a href="/wiki/G._Donald_Harrison" title="G. Donald Harrison">G. Donald Harrison</a>, Master Builder of the <a href="/wiki/Mormon_Tabernacle" class="mw-redirect" title="Mormon Tabernacle">Mormon Tabernacle</a> organ plus others. Under his direction, the Riverside organ was expanded to become one of the largest in North America.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/extemporaneous#English" class="extiw" title="wikt:extemporaneous">extemporaneous</a> hymn accompaniments at Riverside's Sunday services and concert performances were widely acclaimed, and fans would wait after church services for hours to meet him.<sup id="cite_ref-Dish_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dish-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>While serving regularly at Riverside Church, Fox also performed at several other concert venues. As a representative of the U. S. Department of State, he performed at the First International Conference of Sacred Music held in Bern, Switzerland in 1952. In 1962, he also appeared with his fellow organists E. Power Biggs and <a href="/wiki/Catherine_Crozier" class="mw-redirect" title="Catherine Crozier">Catherine Crozier</a> to inaugurate the newly installed organ at <a href="/wiki/David_Geffen_Hall" title="David Geffen Hall">Philharmonic Hall</a> in New York City's <a href="/wiki/Lincoln_Center" title="Lincoln Center">Lincoln Center</a>. Over the years, he was even invited to perform at the White House as a pianist on three separate occasions.<sup id="cite_ref-google.com_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-google.com-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Recordings made during this period brought his playing to larger audiences. They included Fox's unique interpretation of works by Bach, Handel, Fibich and <a href="/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Jongen" title="Léon Jongen">Léon Jongen</a>. In 1965, Fox left Riverside Church to devote himself to concertizing full-time.<sup id="cite_ref-google.com_5-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-google.com-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Concert_tours">Concert tours</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Virgil_Fox&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Concert tours"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>From 1970 until 1978, Fox performed his famous "Heavy Organ" concerts in auditoriums, popular music concert halls, and other nontraditional organ music venues, touring around the United States with a rented electronic <a href="/wiki/Rodgers_Instruments" title="Rodgers Instruments">Rodgers Touring Organ</a>. Later on he used his own instrument, a massive four-manual, custom-designed <a href="/wiki/Allen_Organ_Company" title="Allen Organ Company">Allen Organ</a> (1977–1980).<sup id="cite_ref-Dish_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dish-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Heavy Organ concerts exclusively featured works of Johann Sebastian Bach accompanied by a large-scale light show, "Revelation Lights" by David Snyder, that was synchronized with the music, thereby bringing together aural and visual elements.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The spectacle attracted enthusiastic audiences numbering in the thousands, but was not without its critics. <a href="/wiki/William_F._Buckley" class="mw-redirect" title="William F. Buckley">William F. Buckley</a> was reported by the <i>New York Times</i> as saying Fox, "must have figured that it was more important to fill the house with listeners who would hear Bach for the first time than worry about those who would resolve, like me, to have heard Fox for the last time".<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During this period, half of Fox's performances were "Heavy Organ" concerts accompanied by "Revelation Lights", with the virtuoso organist speaking informally to the audiences, and half were traditional classical music.<sup id="cite_ref-Time_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Time-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the latter category, a Fox recital at <a href="/wiki/Lakeland_University" title="Lakeland University">Lakeland University</a> in <a href="/wiki/Sheboygan,_Wisconsin" title="Sheboygan, Wisconsin">Sheboygan, Wisconsin</a>, was typical: he played <a href="/wiki/Julius_Reubke" title="Julius Reubke">Julius Reubke</a>'s monumental <i><a href="/wiki/Sonata_on_the_94th_Psalm" title="Sonata on the 94th Psalm">Sonata on the 94th Psalm</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Ives" title="Charles Ives">Charles Ives</a>' <i><a href="/wiki/Variations_on_%22America%22" title="Variations on "America"">Variations on "America"</a></i>, the "Libera Me" movement from <a href="/wiki/Gabriel_Faur%C3%A9" title="Gabriel Fauré">Fauré</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Requiem_(Faur%C3%A9)" title="Requiem (Fauré)"><i>Requiem</i></a>, Bach's <i>Adagio and Fugue in a minor</i>, and <a href="/wiki/Henri_Mulet" title="Henri Mulet">Henri Mulet</a>'s <i>Thou Art the Rock</i>, among others. In a rave review, the <i><a href="/wiki/Sheboygan_Press" class="mw-redirect" title="Sheboygan Press">Sheboygan Press</a></i> critic was effusive in her praise, calling the recital "electrifying". She reported that the "packed house, cheering and clapping, insisted on three encores that gave the night its stunning climax".<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Time</i> magazine reported that Fox earned between <span class="nowrap">$6–8 thousand</span> per performance (equivalent to <span class="nowrap">$30–40 thousand</span> in 2024, when adjusted for inflation).<sup id="cite_ref-Time_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Time-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Fox also continued to concertize in more traditional concert settings as well. In 1974, he appeared in the inaugural recital of a new Rodgers organ at Carnegie Hall after assisting in its design. In the winter of 1975 he returned to Carnegie Hall and appeared with the <a href="/wiki/American_Symphony" title="American Symphony">American Symphony</a> orchestra under the baton of <a href="/wiki/Richard_Westenburg" title="Richard Westenburg">Richard Westenburg</a> in the Alerbert Schweitzer Centennial Concert.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Several years later in 1977 he also performed in a sold-out concert featuring the music of Bach at the <a href="/wiki/Kennedy_Center" class="mw-redirect" title="Kennedy Center">Kennedy Center</a> in Washington, D.C.<sup id="cite_ref-google.com_5-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-google.com-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox" style="width: 190px; clear: left; float:left;margin:0 1.5em 1.5em 0;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:115%">External audio</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="audio icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Nuvola_apps_arts.svg/16px-Nuvola_apps_arts.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Nuvola_apps_arts.svg/24px-Nuvola_apps_arts.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Nuvola_apps_arts.svg/32px-Nuvola_apps_arts.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></span></span> You may hear Virgil Fox interviewed by <a href="/wiki/Robert_Sherman_(music_critic)" title="Robert Sherman (music critic)">Robert Sherman</a> on <a href="/wiki/WQXR-FM" title="WQXR-FM">WQXR-FM</a> in 1975 <br /><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.wnyc.org/story/virgil-fox/">Here on wnyc.org</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Fox was one of the rare organists to perform on nationally televised entertainment programs in the 1960s and 1970s, such as <i><a href="/wiki/The_Mike_Douglas_Show" title="The Mike Douglas Show">The Mike Douglas Show</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Ed_Sullivan_Show" title="The Ed Sullivan Show">The Ed Sullivan Show</a></i>, and <i><a href="/wiki/CBS" title="CBS">CBS</a> Camera Three</i>, bringing organ masterworks to mass audiences as no other organist had done before.<sup id="cite_ref-Dish_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dish-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1975, he was also interviewed by the music critic <a href="/wiki/Robert_Sherman_(music_critic)" title="Robert Sherman (music critic)">Robert Sherman</a> on his <i>Great Artists Series</i> program on <a href="/wiki/WQXR-FM" title="WQXR-FM">WQXR</a> radio in New York City.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His last commercially released recording, though unauthorized, was made at his return (by popular demand) to Riverside Church in concert on May 6, 1979. </p><p>In his 50th year of performing on the organ, Fox gave his final public performance with the <a href="/wiki/Dallas_Symphony_Orchestra" title="Dallas Symphony Orchestra">Dallas Symphony Orchestra</a> on September 26, 1980, although he was racked with pain from <a href="/wiki/Metastasize" class="mw-redirect" title="Metastasize">metastasized</a> <a href="/wiki/Prostate_cancer" title="Prostate cancer">prostate cancer</a> that resulted in his death the following month.<sup id="cite_ref-Sun_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sun-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Dish_9-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dish-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Music">Music</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Virgil_Fox&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Music"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Fox always stressed pushing the limits of the instruments available to him, rather than requiring that they, or his playing, be authentic to the era of the music. His style (particularly his taste for fast tempos, intricate registrations, and a willingness to luxuriate in sentimentality) was in contrast to that of many of his contemporaries, such as <a href="/wiki/E._Power_Biggs" title="E. Power Biggs">E. Power Biggs</a>. </p><p>Fox was also famous for his musical memory, and could instantly recall over 200 concert works.<sup id="cite_ref-TX_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TX-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He played all concerts from memory and very rarely read from written scores even when playing alongside an orchestra. </p><p>Many organists, however, strongly criticized Fox for his unconventional interpretations of classical organ music.<sup id="cite_ref-TX_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TX-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On his album <i>Heavy Organ: Bach Live at <a href="/wiki/Winterland_Ballroom" title="Winterland Ballroom">Winterland</a></i>, Fox defended his approach to Bach and organ music in general, in the introduction to the ubiquitous <a href="/wiki/Toccata_and_Fugue_in_D_minor,_BWV_565" title="Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565">Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565</a>, by <a href="/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach" title="Johann Sebastian Bach">Johann Sebastian Bach</a>; Virgil always spoke to his audiences about Bach's reason for his compositions being his belief in Jesus and everlasting life whenever he performed his music. </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>There is current in our land (and several European countries) at this moment a kind of nitpicking worship of historic impotence. They say that Bach must not be interpreted and that he must have no emotion, that his notes speak for themselves. You want to know what that is? Pure unadulterated rot! Bach has the red blood. He has the communion with the people. He has all of this amazing spirit. And imagine that you could put all the music on one side of the agenda with his great interpretation and great feeling and put the greatest man of all right up on top of a dusty shelf underneath some glass case in a museum and say that he must not be interpreted! They're full of you-know-what and they're so untalented that they have to hide behind this thing because they couldn't get in the house of music any other way!</p></blockquote> <p>For once making a similar speech at one of his recitals, music critic <a href="/wiki/Alan_Rich" title="Alan Rich">Alan Rich</a> called him "the <a href="/wiki/Liberace" title="Liberace">Liberace</a> of the organ loft", and severely took him to task in <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_Magazine" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Magazine">New York Magazine</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Despite (or perhaps because of) his controversial approach to organ music, Virgil Fox attained a celebrity status not unlike that of <a href="/wiki/Leonard_Bernstein" title="Leonard Bernstein">Leonard Bernstein</a> and <a href="/wiki/Glenn_Gould" title="Glenn Gould">Glenn Gould</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-google.com_5-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-google.com-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/New_York_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Times">New York <i>Times</i></a> said of him, 20 years after his death, "Fox could play the pipe organ like nobody's business, but that is not all that made him unforgettable to so many people across the country. He made classical organ music appeal even to audiences that normally wouldn't be expected to sit still for it."<sup id="cite_ref-NYTWhitney_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTWhitney-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Honors">Honors</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Virgil_Fox&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Honors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Fox was a National Patron of <a href="/wiki/Delta_Omicron" title="Delta Omicron">Delta Omicron</a>, an international professional music fraternity.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He designed the 1964 Reuter Pipe Organ at Bucknell University and was awarded a Doctorate Degree.<sup id="cite_ref-google.com_5-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-google.com-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was given Keys to the City in numerous acts of gratitude by Mayors of numerous cities. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death_and_legacy">Death and legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Virgil_Fox&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Death and legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox" style="width: 180px; clear: right; float:right;margin:0 0 1.5em 1.5em"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:115%">External audio</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="audio icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Nuvola_apps_arts.svg/16px-Nuvola_apps_arts.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Nuvola_apps_arts.svg/24px-Nuvola_apps_arts.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Nuvola_apps_arts.svg/32px-Nuvola_apps_arts.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></span></span> You may listen to Virgil Fox performing <a href="/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach" title="Johann Sebastian Bach">Johann Sebastian Bach</a>'s "Trio Sonata for Organ No. 6 in G" at the Riverside Church in 1958 <br /> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/07BachTrioSonata6InG"><b>Here on archive.org</b></a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="audio icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Nuvola_apps_arts.svg/16px-Nuvola_apps_arts.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Nuvola_apps_arts.svg/24px-Nuvola_apps_arts.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Nuvola_apps_arts.svg/32px-Nuvola_apps_arts.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></span></span> You may listen to Virgil Fox performing <a href="/wiki/Henry_Purcell" title="Henry Purcell">Henry Purcell</a>'s "Trumpet Tune & Air" at the Riverside Church in 1958 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/furiek_aol"><br /> <b>Here on archive.org</b></a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Fox had surgery for <a href="/wiki/Prostate_cancer" title="Prostate cancer">prostate cancer</a> in December 1975 and later underwent radiation treatments after it was found to have <a href="/wiki/Metastasize" class="mw-redirect" title="Metastasize">metastasized</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was greatly debilitated and in considerable pain from the disease when he gave his final performance on September 26, 1980, with the Dallas Symphony.<sup id="cite_ref-Sun_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sun-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Near collapse the morning after the concert, he was rushed back to Florida by private airplane from Texas to be hospitalized near his <a href="/wiki/Palm_Beach,_Florida" title="Palm Beach, Florida">Palm Beach</a> home, "Casa Lagomar", and the remainder of his planned concert tour was cancelled.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Fox died on October 25, 1980, followed by a private funeral held at Casa Lagomar conducted by his longtime assistant and adopted son, David Snyder.<sup id="cite_ref-Sun_2-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sun-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A large-scale public funeral service was subsequently held at the <a href="/wiki/Crystal_Cathedral" class="mw-redirect" title="Crystal Cathedral">Crystal Cathedral</a> in California, where Fox lay in state.<sup id="cite_ref-Sun_2-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sun-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His remains were cremated and his ashes are interred at Pioneer Cemetery, <a href="/wiki/Dover,_Illinois" title="Dover, Illinois">Dover, Illinois</a>, next to his grandparents.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In a sign of continued recognition unusual for a performer (as distinct from a composer), Virgil Fox memorial recitals and concerts have been staged years after his death.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In May 1990, for example, a Virgil Fox Memorial Concert was given at the Crystal Cathedral organ by <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Swann" title="Frederick Swann">Frederick Swann</a>, who was his successor at Riverside Church. On what would have been Fox's 80th birthday, a special tribute in his memory was broadcast by <a href="/wiki/KBYU-FM" title="KBYU-FM">KBYU-FM</a> in <a href="/wiki/Provo,_Utah" title="Provo, Utah">Provo, Utah</a>. Entitled <i>Virgil Fox: American Virtuoso</i>, the May 3, 1992, radio program, produced almost twelve years after his death, included an excerpt of Swann's Crystal Cathedral memorial of 1990 and highlighted a virtuoso performance of <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Jongen" title="Joseph Jongen">Joseph Jongen</a>'s <i>Symphonie Concertante</i> by Fox in <a href="/wiki/Tokyo,_Japan" class="mw-redirect" title="Tokyo, Japan">Tokyo, Japan</a>, recorded fifteen years previously. Also that month, an "Organ Greats Virgil Fox and <a href="/wiki/E._Power_Biggs" title="E. Power Biggs">E. Power Biggs</a>" concert was held at the <a href="/wiki/Library_of_Congress" title="Library of Congress">Library of Congress</a> in <a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a><sup id="cite_ref-Provo_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Provo-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2012, the centennial year of his birth, a tribute to Fox was included in an organ concert held at a church in <a href="/wiki/Vancouver,_Canada" class="mw-redirect" title="Vancouver, Canada">Vancouver, Canada</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many of his recordings have been re-mastered and are widely available on <a href="/wiki/Compact_disc" title="Compact disc">compact discs</a>, as well as regularly heard on radio programs featuring organ music, such as <i><a href="/wiki/Pipedreams" title="Pipedreams">Pipedreams</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Sacred_Classics" title="Sacred Classics">Sacred Classics</a></i>. </p><p>A compilation of Fox's arrangements of organ works by J. S. Bach, <a href="/wiki/George_Frideric_Handel" title="George Frideric Handel">George Frideric Handel</a>, Franz Liszt, <a href="/wiki/Camille_Saint-Saens" class="mw-redirect" title="Camille Saint-Saens">Camille Saint-Saens</a> and <a href="/wiki/Richard_Wagner" title="Richard Wagner">Richard Wagner</a> was published by Alfred Music Publishing in 1994.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>At the Organ with Virgil Fox</i> contains several musical scores of some of Fox's most frequently performed works along with his markings, registrations, and transcriptions for students of the organ.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Biographies written about Fox after his death include the controversial <i>Virgil Fox (The Dish): An Irreverent Biography of the Great American Organist</i> (2001) by his former manager, Richard Torrence (2001), and <i>Virgil Fox — His real life... with secrets you never knew</i> (2020) by David Snyder.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Virgil Fox Society, formed to perpetuate his memory, established the Virgil Fox Scholarship under the auspices of the <a href="/wiki/American_Guild_of_Organists" title="American Guild of Organists">American Guild of Organists</a> in 2002.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Archived_works_and_displays">Archived works and displays</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Virgil_Fox&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Archived works and displays"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The <i>Virgil Fox Collection</i> at the <a href="/wiki/Organ_Historical_Society" title="Organ Historical Society">Organ Historical Society</a> contains manuscripts, correspondence, programs, transcripts, videos and organ specifications by Virgil Fox.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Discography_of_American_Historical_Recordings" title="Discography of American Historical Recordings">Discography of American Historical Recordings</a> catalog at the University of California at Santa Barbara contains thirty- eight audio recordings on the Victor and Decca labels by Virgil Fox from the years 1941-1977.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Various Fox relics including items of his stage clothing, the actual record that inspired his arrangement of "Come, Sweet Death" and the organ console from his Englewood, N.J. mansion, are on display by the Friends of the Wanamaker Organ at Macy's Center City in Philadelphia.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Virgil_Fox&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1259569809">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid 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