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1951 Organ Reveries By Virgil Fox Vinyl 45 6-Record Box Set VG+
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ORGAN REVERIES BY VIRGIL FOX
Brahms: Waltz in A-flat Major, Op. 39, No. 15 • Humperdinck: Prayer from “Hansel and Grctel” • Boccherini: Minuet
(from Quintet in E Major, Op. 13, No. 5) • Dvorak: Songs My Mother Taught Me, Op. 55, No. 4 • Saint-Satins: My
Heart At Thy Sweet Voice (from “Samson and Delilah,” Op. 47) • Brahms: Cradle Song, Op. 49, No. 4 • Bingham:
Roulade, Op. 9, No. 3 • Bach: Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (No. 10 from Canata 147) • Boehm: Calm As the Night,
Op. 326, No. 27 • Rubinstein: Kamcnoi-Ostrow, Op. 10 • Mendelssohn: War March of the Priests
(from the Incidental Music for “Athalie,” Op. 74)
VIRGIL FOX at the Organ of the Riverside Church, New York
Virgil Fox, organist of the famed River-
side Church in New York City and one of
the outstanding virtuosos of his genera-
tion, presents here a program of beloved
works drawn from many fields of music.
Here are Brahms' gracious Waltz in A-flat
Major and his gentle Cradle Song; the
delicate and charming Minuet by Bocche-
rini; Rubinstein’s colorful Kamenoi-
Ostrow; the nostalgic and lovely Songs
My Mother Taught Me by Dvorak; the
romantic My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice
from Saint-Saens’ opera, Samson and
Delilah; Bach's radiant Jesu, Joy of Man’s
Desiring; and other attractive favorites.
Virgil Fox began his musical studies
in Princeton, Illinois. He was fourteen
years old when he gave his first public
recital in Cincinnati before an audience
of three thousand students. He entered
the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore
and during the season he spent there per-
formed the phenomenal feat of giving five
complete recitals, each one a different pro-
gram played from memory. When he was
twenty-six years old, Mr. Fox was ap-
pointed head of the organ department of
this same conservatory.
He visited Europe in 1938 and gave
there ten concerts in a month’s time, play-
ing in such renowned churches as Durham
and Lincoln Cathedrals, and the great St.
Thomas’ Church in Leipzig, forever associ-
ated with Bach. Mr. Fox returned to
Europe during the Summer of 1950 and
gave triumphant concerts in Paris, Canter-
bury, Edinburgh and London, among other
places.
Virgil Fox served in the U.S. Army,
alternating between the Chaplain’s Corps
and Special Services, from 1942 to 1946.
In the first eleven months alone of his
service he made five hundred and forty-
three appearances for the war effort. He
concluded his service in the Army with a
year’s intense work in musical therapy for
the patients of the Walter Reed Hospital.
The week that Mr. Fox was honorably
discharged from the Army he began a
series of three concerts at the Library of
Congress under the auspices of the Eliza-
beth Sprague Coolidge Foundation.
In addition to serving as organist of the
Riverside Church in New York City, a
post he has held since 1946, Mr. Fox gives
many concerts all over the country, aver-
aging more than eighty a year.
Critics are unanimous in their praise of
this remarkable artist “Phenomenal tech-
nique," “electrifying virtuosity,” “one of
the most imaginative of organists” are but
a few of the glowing tributes accorded
this musician.
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