Word: organ
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like cathedrals. Listeners gathered round them with a concentration that bordered on worship. (In accordance with the nostalgia revival, those Gothic appliances are being remade, but now they are composed of plastic and run on transistors.) Oldtime daytime broadcasts were principally devoted to the knitted brow and the purling organ of soap operas. Our Gal Sunday asked the question: "Can this girl from a mining town in the West find happiness as the wife of a wealthy and titled Englishman?" Answer: No-five afternoons a week. Backstage Wife followed the fortunes of an unassuming lady, Mary Noble, married...
...organ is lit up like the stage at Radio City Music Hall. Overblown poppies bloom in Oriental splendor in the organist's iridescent paisley jacket. At the keyboard, he rocks vigorously in gigue time, his rhinestone-decorated black suede shoes dancing over the pedals. Cascading waves of sound shake Manhattan's Carnegie Hall. Then, with a puff of smoke, the organist disappears. Overhead, a glowing portrait of a rotund face with crimped curls and dimpled chin flashes on a screen. The overflow audience explodes in cheers for Virgil Fox and Johann Sebastian Bach...
...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 Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. "Go-o-o-o-o, Virgil...
...have a proclivity for equating feeling with decibels, but his playing is characterized by careful attention to rhythm and phrasing. Even his critics concede that he possesses one of the century's greatest organ-virtuoso techniques. Born in Princeton, Ill., where his mother was alto soloist in the Lutheran church and his father owned the local moviehouse and was the "best auctioneer the state of Illinois has ever seen," Fox began piano lessons at eight. A year later he discovered an old organ in a barn and taught himself to play, practicing up to 16 hours...
...does an occasional TV story for CBS news programs, Osgood, 40, is not certain that video is his métier. He thinks that he lacks the "graphic eye" necessary for good TV news pieces. Words and music are something else. He enjoys playing Bach on his electronic organ (favorite piece: Invention No. 8 in F). His love of sound is reflected in the off-the-cuff poetry he began writing while in the Army (among his lyrical credits: 25 published songs, including Nancy Wilson's Black Is Beautiful...