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Virgil Keel Fox (May 3, 1912 in Princeton, Illinois – October 25, 1980 in Palm Beach, Florida) was an American organist, known especially for his years as organist at Riverside Church in New York City, from 1946 to 1965, and his flamboyant "Heavy Organ" concerts of the music of Bach in the 1970s, staged complete with light shows. [1]
Virgil Keel Fox (May 3, 1912 in Princeton, Illinois – October 25, 1980 in Palm Beach, Florida) was an American organist, known especially for his flamboyant Heavy Organ concerts of the music of Bach.
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Oct 22, 2000 · Virgil Fox, an organ virtuoso who died on Oct. 25, 1980, at 68, left memories that still reverberate today, as was shown by the presence of 1,500 people, many of them organists, at a...
Virgil Fox was born in Princeton, Illinois, on May 3, 1912. He was a child prodigy. At the age of ten, he was playing the organ for church services. At fourteen, he played his first organ recital before a cheering crowd of 2,500 people in Cincinnati.
Oct 29, 2001 · Virgil Keel Fox • 1912-1980. May 3, 1912. He is born in Princeton, Illinois. 1926. He makes his concert debut at Withrow High School in Cincinnati before an audience of 2,500. 1926-1929. He studies in Chicago with Wilhelm Middelschulte, who was then Organist of the Chicago Symphony. 1929. He is selected unanimously by the National Federation ...
Oct 11, 2005 · Fox, a flamboyant, unabashedly theatrical player, made a splash in 1970 by playing a heavily amplified Bach recital at the Fillmore East, complete with a psychedelic light show.
