despite (or perhaps because of) his controversial approach to organ music, virgil fox attained a celebrity status not unlike that of leonard bernstein and glenn gould. the new york "times" said of him, 20 years after his death, "fox could play the pipe organ like nobody's business, but that is not all that made him unforgettable to so many people across the country. he made classical organ music appeal even to audiences that normally wouldn't be expected to sit still for it."