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Pint-sized (4 ft. 8 in.) Mme. Landowska, 73, is unchallenged high priestess of the plunky, double-keyboard instrument for which Bach wrote, before the piano supplanted it in the 18th century. Under her dedicated leadership, the harpsichord is having something of a revival, and her recording of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier is already a modern classic. Next week RCA Victor will release its fifth album, leaving her one album still...
When she has answered her letters, Wanda Landowska is ready to descend. She loops her long, still-black hair, only sparsely greyshot, around her head, dons her blazing red corduroy robe ("red is for violence, like Bach, sometimes"), her flat, gold-mesh slippers and goes down to the kitchen for a breakfast of figs, dates and lettuce...
...four, Landowska expressed herself on the piano while other children were learning to talk. Her first teacher, recognizing her precocious virtuosity, let her play whatever music pleased her. But "a stern, dry man" took his place, and "my delightful roamings through the gavottes and bourrées of Bach were at an end." She was very unhappy. "I dream only one thing, when I am grown to play only Bach, Haydn and Mozart." She sealed this vow in an envelope, to be opened "when I am a big girl. But I opened it the next day, of course...
Choral, in conjunction with Harvard group, gave a concert in Lexington yesterday. The sang "The Blessed Damozel" and a Bach choral work...
...years later came the revolution; the glee club realized it could no longer serve both Bach and the "Bulldog on the Bank." To the consternation of undergraduates an dalumni alike, the club, led by the late Mayo A. Shattuck '19 separated from the banjo and mandolin clubs and stuck to choral music. Critics applauded the group "as the finest chorus in Boston" and the B.S.O. invited the HGC to give another joint concert...