Word: clavichord
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...latest craze in sports--music. Of course everyone has heard the national anthem played before baseball games, and Mozart's "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" at football games. Well, Saturday night Bernard Brauchi, a clavichordist, will be giving a lecture and recital on the use and social role of the clavichord. The whole gala will begin at 8:30 and will happen in the Quincy House library. New clavichord sports will also be discussed...
Quincy House Music Society--Bernard Brauchli, clavichord, presents a lecture-recital. Free. Quincy House Master's residence...
...Having surrendered America's finest harpsichordist to Angel two years ago, Columbia continues to reissue the superlative albums he originally taped for the now defunct Epic classical label. Included here are choice anthologies of English, German and Austrian music (late 16th century to the 18th) for clavichord as well as harpsichord. Meanwhile, Kipnis, 43-year-old son of the great Russian basso Alexander, moves on. His Goldbergs boast boldly colored registrations, an entertaining songfulness, and a wondrous knack for making Baroque embellishments sound inevitable...
...vocal ensembles, Mem Church, and the two orchestras are not all Harvard has to offer. The popular Gilbert & Sullivan Players perform twice a year: Lowell House and Leverett House sponsor opera in the spring. All of these groups--along with Charlie Kletzsch's indefatigable Dunster musicians and their midnight clavichord concerts--are more or less permanent. Other groups come and go as members drift to and from the blessed attractions of political activism...
Fred and Yvonne Skinner live in an attractive, modern Cambridge house complete with swimming pool, a stereo system, a grand piano, a clavichord and, in the basement study, a small organ. In a sense, Skinner's own life-style is highly controlled and conditioned. His study contains a special clock that "runs when I'm really thinking. I keep a cumulative record of serious time at my desk. The clock starts when I turn on the desk light, and whenever it passes twelve hours, I plot a point on a curve. I can see what my average rate of writing...