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IGOR KIPNIS: ITALIAN BAROQUE MUSIC FOR HARPSICHORD (Epic). The son of the great Russian bass, Alexander Kipnis, Igor Kipnis is a passionate champion of the harpsichord: he adds to flawless technique a virile attack and a vital conviction that the literature of an obsolete instrument can still be exciting music. Here he plays oddments by Frescobaldi, Galuppi, Pasquini, Rossi and Cimarosa-who wrote when the harpsichord was the highest ornament of Renaissance sensibility. Most elegant of all is Scarlatti's Toccata in D Minor, the last movement of which consists of 29 florid variations on an old Italian theme...
...primary. The organization, which has controlled the Statehouse for the last 14 years, proved stronger. Hooker failed in the urban areas he expected to carry, lost the Negro votes he had so stylishly courted. Ellington won 53% of the votes, and Frank Clement nosed out U.S. Senator Ross Bass for the Democratic senatorial nomination. There was no talk of a Kennedy defeat, nor any of a Johnson victory...
...thumb - looks like a pipsqueak. Yet its sweet warblings, wistful twitters and charming coos work such a Pied Piper spell over modern audiences that the recorder has become the fastest-rising instrument in the U.S. With more amateurs taking up the recorder than the violin, cello, viola and bass combined, the number of players has climbed from 100,000 in 1955 to 750,000 last year. The American Recorder Society now boasts 53 chapters in the U.S. and Canada, as well as a learned quarterly, The American Recorder. Fo cal point for much of the interest is on campus, where...
...HOLIDAY (NBC, 5:30-6 p.m.). Voyages to happy hunting and fishing grounds with tips on how to come home with the big ones. This trip is to Alaska and Argentina for big game and trout, and to reservoirs in Massachusetts and New Hampshire for fresh-water bass. Premiere...
NOTHING THRILLED US HALF AS MUCH (Epic). This reissue of The Best of Fred Astaire is decidedly a collector's item: original recordings of such favorites as Cheek to Cheek, Slap That Bass and Let's Call the Whole Thing Off, sung and danced (the tapping is almost as expressive as the lyrics) by the master...