Rodney Myrvaagnes wrote:

>I remember a tocatta by Nancy Plummer Faxon being popular at recitals
>around Boston in the late 1950s. I have no idea who published it. I
>assume she was married to George Faxon, then organist at Trinity,
>Copley Square.
>
>

Wasn't she organist of the Old South Church in her own right?

As for the Toccata, Jonathan Ambrosino has written:

> The Toccata for solo organ is Mrs. Faxon at her best, a dramatic,
> tightly organized and entirely American piece of music borne of a
> simple theme and a complicated accompanimental motif. It outranks
> Sowerby and Farnam both, and deserves a wider exposure outside of
> Boston music circles.



R.E.

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