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Virgil Fox (The Dish): An Irreverent Biography of the Great American Organist

By Richard Torrence & Marshall Yaeger

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The great concert organist, Virgil Fox, dominated the classical organ field from the mid-1940’s until his death in 1980. His flamboyant personality and lifestyle matched his outsized playing style, and this book covers them both.
Book cover of Beyond Time and Death, a biography of American organist Virgil Fox, featuring a black-and-white circular photo of a man sitting at a table with flowers, surrounded by text, on a gray and white background.
Biography, Nonfiction
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The great concert organist, Virgil Fox, dominated the classical organ field from the mid-1940’s until his death in 1980. His flamboyant personality and lifestyle matched his outsized playing style, and this book covers them both.

Based on a memoir written by his student and friend, fellow organist Ted Alan Worth, the manuscript has been edited and amended by two other Fox associates, Richard Torrence, who served as the musician’s manager, and Marshall Yaeger. They have added additional comments from others who knew and worked with Virgil Fox, both personally and professionally.

Anyone familiar with the organ’s repertoire and/or Virgil Fox will enjoy this personal, and highly subjective, account of his life on the concert circuit and as organist of Manhattan’s majestic Riverside Church, interspersed with tales of his relationships with fellow organists, other musicians, and his two long-term live-in relationships. While author Worth was clearly an admirer of his subject, this “warts and all” biography includes some of Fox’s foibles as well.

Reviewed by Abigail Gary

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