Hi all,
I attended a concert in the late 1960s given by the great organist
Virgil Fox at a dedication of a new pipe organ. Fox was in the middle of
performing the "Wedge" fugue by J.S. Bach, a very complex piece of music
requiring an adept player, which Fox was playing from memory.
Right in the middle of a complex passage in the Fugue, Fox stops
playing, looks into the audience and asks "Is someone taking
photographs? Please stop it!". I was shocked and there was dead silence
in the audience. The auditorium was well lit, so there had been no
flash. It was obviously the "click" of the shutter that had annoyed him.
Then he turns back to the instrument and picks up performing the Fugue
right where he left off, completely absorbed in the music as if nothing
had happened . I was not only astonished at the break in the
performance, but how he just got right back into the piece. Brilliant,
if not temperamental performer.
Regards, Scott E.
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Greg Amann wrote:
> Well some pinhead DID take a flash photo (which is VERY annoying to
> me) and RR didn't storm off stage. ;-)
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