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...important, no pianistcomposer had ever been as thoroughly recorded at so many key points in his life. From 1919, shortly after he fled Russia, until 1942, a year before his death in Beverly Hills, Calif., at 69, Rachmaninoff was a steady visitor to the recording studios. Beethoven, Chopin, Scriabin, Bach, Mozart, Handel, Liszt and, of course, Rachmaninoff-the music of these and other composers he committed to disc. Unfortunately, throughout most of the ensuing years, collectors have been denied a comprehensive accounting of this legacy; as soon as one new Rachmaninoff album was issued, another seemed to be deleted from...
...Minor, which might well have been retitled 26 Variations since Rachmaninoff omitted variations 15-18, 20 and 21 to squeeze the work onto two sides of a single 78 r.p.m. record. There are the myriad piano transcriptions that Rachmaninoff wrote for recital encores, notably the Prelude from Bach's Violin Partita in E and the Scherzo from Men delssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream. There is the finest recording ever made of Schumann's Carnaval, astonishingly warm and realistic in sound quality despite its 1929 vintage. Rachmaninoff the conductor is also represented, leading the Philadelphia...
Paper Plugs. In 1970, inspired by a visit to the now defunct Manhattan rock emporium Fillmore East (where he wore paper earplugs), Fox decided to reach out for the large youth audience by giving Bach a psychedelic transfusion. He added a ton and a half of prisms, lenses, wire, plastic, glass and crystal, installed a light show and his Rodgers Touring Organ-a 4,000-lb. electronic monster with 56 stops and 144 speakers-and opened in the Fillmore with an all-Bach recital. Surrounded by a swirl of colored lights, he swept in on the chariot of the colossal...
Since then, Fox, 61, has been the world's busiest solo organist. He gives some 80 concerts a year, carrying his Bach crusade from Westminster Abbey to high school auditoriums in towns like Altoona, Pa. About half his performances conform to a strictly classical format, and half, given in conjunction with David Snyder's Revelation Lights, are informal lecture-concerts, for which he gets from $6,000 to $8,000 per appearance. "This music is pure uninhibited rhythmic soaring," he tells his listeners. "If you get in the stream, you are off! Get ready!" Four...
...usually takes his dip after a midnight-to-3 a.m. practice session. Then he retires around 5 a.m. and rises at 3 the next afternoon. "I had to wait until I was 58 years of age till I reached the height of my usefulness," Fox explains. "People need Bach and God, and there ain't one violinist or singer that can give the sweeping feeling an organist can. I play the king of instruments...