A while since I’ve heard such a load of old drivel. Great entertainer but completely unhinged. The Liberace of the organ.
@citzie
Ай бұрын
I hope people realize Virgil was dying of cancer when he did these final concerts and it was very painful for him to even play the keys and sit there for that long
@LeeWallace-bm4qi
2 ай бұрын
He wanted desperately to dedicate the final installment of the organ in the garden grove church. Sadly he died before he could achieve it. His passion for his music was unequaled in the organ. He was probably born in the wrong era but tried his best to reach the youth and knew that they are our only future.
@suhndog
4 ай бұрын
Virgil could play over 200 works from memory!
@suhndog
4 ай бұрын
I was there for this service. Wow..
@vincentiaquinta2119
4 ай бұрын
I think VF knew his time was coming. Personally, I think PC is the male equivalent of breast cancer. VF knew he would soon cast off this earthly shell. He is now one of the great organists accompanying the choirs in heaven.
@TheJakeman789
5 ай бұрын
Tacky solicitation.
@raymondbeecroft4209
6 ай бұрын
A dry church is a curse to a good organ and a great organist. It is tough even on the best of choirs B
@gerardhawkins17
7 ай бұрын
I miss him in the worst way I honestly believe he was Bach reincarnated. He had the heart and soul. Hard at times not to get emotional.
@เรียนภาษาอังกฤษวันนี้
7 ай бұрын
I always can’t help but think that he is partly black. Amazing organist.
@ShermanSmith-r7n
7 ай бұрын
Where is the audio, I want to HEAR the music!!??
@anb7408
9 ай бұрын
Virgil had a hand in creating the specs for the subsequent Hazel Wright organ in the Cathedral. A master of improv…..and playing complicated works from memory. He has no equal!
@gingervytis
9 ай бұрын
Everything Virgil said about the young chap he spoke with at the Filmore is the same as my experience. I was an aimless pot head hack musician in a rock band when I chanced to discover the Filmore albums. I was fascinated and completely ignorant of classical music. This new interest led me to attend a Fox concert in South Bend IN., around 1973. I was like that young chap. I met Virgil and shook his hand. It was not profound and it was not cinematic, but I knew that moment that something had to change. I began the serious study of piano, and took a music degree from Indiana University and Belmont U in Nashville. I went on to play and record three albums with the Christian rock group, Petra. I am writing this to say thank you, Virgil and I thank God for his grace. I know exactly what Virgil means when he speaks of "Bach's music coming straight from the lap of God".
@johnhenryholiday4964
10 ай бұрын
I so miss this great humanitarian and organist... Ohhhhhhh to meet him on the other side.... How fantastic that will be... To be able to study at the feet of the great masters....
@amyluvsfun
10 ай бұрын
virgil was the BEST
@robertevans2697
11 ай бұрын
As a teenager, wild about the organ, I was able to attend 3 recitals by Virgil Fox, and met him twice. There was and will likely never be a level talent such as his. He was a prodigy, and had the ability to connect with his audience like nobody else in the organ world. Not knowing it at the time, I attended his last solo recital in Ocean Grove, NJ. Though heavily under the curse of cancer (as am I, stage 4 as I write this), he rose to the occasion as he always did. Not something that can be experienced fully through recordings alone.
@robmcginn4484
11 ай бұрын
Dry acoustic is always a test for an organist! Virgil’s amazing skill with rhythm and articulation are very evident! He was my inspiration back in the 50-60s!
@robmcginn4484
11 ай бұрын
“IS” very evident… my sister headed up an English department!
@leylinegoddess
11 ай бұрын
i was familiar with e. power biggs before is knew about fox.
@PointyTailofSatan
Жыл бұрын
A musical evangelist.
@gerardhawkins17
Жыл бұрын
I still believe he is Bach re-incarnated. I believe he did well with Carlo Curley and John Rose
Virgil. Fox. Plays The. Organ. With. Great. Skill. And. Precision
@joespeciale5875
Жыл бұрын
Truly one of the most extraordinary musical talents of the 20th century and of many centuries. An incredible sense of rhythm. But also he was extraordinary “practicer ,” known to often spending 10, 12, 14 hrs a day practicing-and even more into the wee hours of the morning,before a concert..
@jandebruin3880
Жыл бұрын
Legendarisch
@VTownGregory
Жыл бұрын
Virgil Fox was so long-winded he could have supplied the air to the entire organ.
@rogersteigleman4785
Жыл бұрын
Virgil. Fox. Is. The. Greatest. Organist. Of. All. Time. He Will. Be. Missed.
@rogersteigleman4785
Жыл бұрын
They. Should. Do. A. Cd Of. All. Of. Virgil Fox’s. Recordings. To. Honor One. Of. Greatest. Organist. Of. All. Time.
@aaschach
Жыл бұрын
I love these guys, their ideas and dreams were big and bold!!
@antoniboleslawowicz8095
Жыл бұрын
I did notice in the comments that the Austin organ on which Fox plays in this video is “unused and unloved”. So typical of evangelical megachurches. It could be removed and revoiced to suit a more favorable acoustic, and the church (whose membership has gone down from something like 23,000 forty-plus years ago -- when this concert took place -- to slightly under 5,000) could make some money. If an organ isn’t used or tended, it deteriorates. Fox was a genius, to be sure, but he worked like a dog all his active life to get the results he was after. In the end, he lost the struggle against metastatic prostrate cancer. And playing from memory is worth the trouble. It frees the player to think in terms of sound and structure rather than of notes.
@joespeciale5875
Жыл бұрын
I wondered about that. I lived for a number of years in Phoenix until 2010, and never knew of this massive instrument at North Phoenix Baptist Church.
@briansmith-l1q
Жыл бұрын
As Virgil once said,,"I see no problem touching the man next to you" lol,,, He's gayer than i am, ha ha,,, i had a chance to meet him , very nice guy
@pastorart1974
Жыл бұрын
In 1957 Virgil Fox recorded a record and performed a couple of Sunday afternoon concerts at my home Lutheran Church in Chicago. I wish I could find that record today.
@pastorart1974
Жыл бұрын
When was this recorded?
@bikdav
Жыл бұрын
I have that disc. But, mine is conventional black. It’s still a knock out disc.
@nathanaelkepler5493
Жыл бұрын
My late friend Andy Crow used to travel with Virgil when he toured with the Rodgers organ. Heard all sorts of stories 😂
@aaronbrigham4743
Жыл бұрын
I'm just curious did Sebastian Bach die in 1750 or is that not correct just curious.
@georgeallan6550
Жыл бұрын
I never would of suspected Fox as being so underdeveloped in the use of his voice. He literally is tone deaf when he sings. Often the case with keyboard players.
@georgemurphy2579
Жыл бұрын
He was approaching death's door during this memorable concert. I am not sure if many realize how I'll he was and yet he commanded the music, note-for-note, better than the best of them.
@georgemurphy2579
Жыл бұрын
No one like him - ever! Always began each program with Bach's, "Deck Thyself, My Soul."
@steelman86
Жыл бұрын
I thought it was strange that Virgil always wore a cape! When I asked him why, he said when he was done with a concert, he was often perspiring and many times at the reception after, he could get stuck greeting those fans near an open door or window which could lead to him getting a cold! Makes perfect sense! What a talented showman he was! I call him the Liberace of the pipe organ!!!
@ryantalbot5422
Жыл бұрын
These dudes are creepy as all get out.
@mannfan12
Жыл бұрын
music starts aat 11:53. your welcome.
@Sthunderrocker
Жыл бұрын
This is only the first half (just for context).
@clotballew3672
2 жыл бұрын
Maestro Fox was the guv’nor!
@timstoffel4799
2 жыл бұрын
I was not lucky enough to have any serious interest in organ music while Virgil Fox was alive. But it was an album of music performed by Virgil Fox, along with an unplanned visit to the inner workings of a pipe organ that piqued an interest that has come to dominate my life. Virgil Fox took on the organ project at the Crystal Cathedral, but died of cancer just short of its completion. But so motivated by the project he was, that doctors say it extended his life by six months. I finally got to hear this organ for myself, on a particularly fateful day-- the day that Dr. Schuller announced his resignation! (This was not planned or expected when a good friend and I attended what we thought would be a routine Sunday morning service.) The thing that I learned from these shows is how much of a Man of God Virgil Fox was, and this has created for me an all new level of respect. His performance of "Come Sweet Death" was indeed amazing. And his performance of the Toccata from Boellman's Suite Gothique-- a piece of music I am intimately familiar with-- sets a new standard for other performers to meet. You can see Mr. Fox smiling as he is performing! In any case, I am sure that Bach and Virgil Fox have played some great heavenly organ together for our King of Kings and Lord of Lords!
@originaltommy
2 жыл бұрын
Ambassador Fox
@Eloybb1
2 жыл бұрын
Virgil , best
@oludotunjohnshowemimo434
2 жыл бұрын
Vox Celeste stop
@waynelundberg9734
2 жыл бұрын
Virgil Fox. Great artist! Spectacular music!
@rshafter4607
2 жыл бұрын
quite the showman.
@1philip
2 жыл бұрын
Was a big thrill to hear him perform live. He's one of the reasons I continued my organ studies becoming organist at several churches.
@bombarde1701a
2 жыл бұрын
Is that Mrs. Hazel Wright sitting up there?
@bikdav
Жыл бұрын
@bombarde1701@: According to what I heard, the Haze Wright organ was in the new church (The Crystal Cathedral) that was completed in the early 1980s
@georgemurphy2579
2 жыл бұрын
This is the piece that launched his early career in 1939. It was based upon an orchestral transcription of Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra.
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