Word: harpsichordist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reasons of their own the large orchestras neglect the works of these two composers, and because of this neglect, the opportunity of hearing the Fifth Brandenburg Concerto played by a competent orchestra and harpsichordist should not be undervalued...
...Manuel & Williamson all music written since the 18th Century has come a long way down hill. Occasionally, for relaxation, they visit the concerts of Frederick Stock's Chicago Symphony, consider the ponderous 19th-Century classics they hear there as comparative fluff. Last month when they heard Harpsichordist Yella Pessl play a lick of swing on a harpsichord broadcast, they turned away their dial in horror. Asked why they prefer 18th Century to all other music, they reply: "It makes us feel spiritually spick & span...
Last year, on the advice of Carleton Sprague Smith, affable Manhattan librarian and expert on early U. S. music, a harpsichord was obtained for the governor's palace, and U. S. Harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick was hired to put on a festival of 18th-Century music. So successful was Williamsburg's first music festival that in the autumn another was given...
Harpsichord Recital" (Ralph Kirkpatrick; Musicraft: 12 sides). U. S. Harpsichordist Kirkpatrick, an authority on 17th and 18th Century composers, plays a representative anthology, including Bach's Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue, two Scarlatti sonatas, two Purcell suites...
...Carnegie Hall venture (TIME, Jan. 23), trod last week another classically-minded swingster. At a concert by Manhattan's year-old Bach Circle, Negro Swing-Pianist Teddy Wilson delicately pecked an 18th-Century harpsichord. Playing Bach's Concerto in C Minor for Two Harpsichords and Strings with Harpsichordist Yella Pessl for a partner, Harpsichordist Wilson forgot all about his pedals, stomped out Bach's rhythm with one foot...