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In his long and brilliant career, Virgil Fox (1912-1980) gave recitals on practically every important organ in the world. He was the first non-German artist to perform the works of J. S. Bach at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig. In 1936, he played the first paid recital on the Kilgen organ in Carnegie Hall, New York. In 1962, he participated (with E. Power Biggs and Catherine Crozier) in the inaugural concert of the Aeolian Skinner organ in New York's Philharmonic Hall, Lincoln Center. In 1963, he played the first solo recital and made the first recording of the new organ. He played recitals at Westminster, Durham, and Lincoln Cathedrals; King's College, Cambridge; Nôtre Dame and Ste. Clotilde, Paris; and the Marienkirche, Lübeck. In 1973, he played his concert as a Kennedy Center Founding Artist to a sold-out house in the 3,000-seat Concert Hall of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C. He inaugurated the Rodgers Carnegie Hall organ in 1974, which he had designed. In 1977, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his concert debut, he played a sold-out concert (“The Bach Gamut”) at Kennedy Center and in Tokyo, Japan at NHK Hall; and performed the Joseph Jongen Symphonie Concertante with the NHK Symphony.
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