Word: clavichords
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Returning from two years abroad on a travelling, scholarship, Ralph Kirkpatrick '31, will give a recital of 18th century music on the harpsichord and clavichord of that period at 10 o'clock this morning for Music...
...into the church. Inside were 2,500 Rockefeller & Hooker friends, socialites, bankers, no grandfather, for John Davison Rockefeller, 93, departed for Ormond Beach, Fla. two days before the wedding to avoid public exposure. After an organ prelude including Bach's Prelude in E flat minor from "The Well-Tempered Clavichord" and "Blessed Jesu. We Are Here," the grave young bride followed the procession 250 ft. up an aisle banked in white chrysanthemums and Japanese pink lilies. Facing Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick and a chancel hedged with tall cypress trees, boxwood and more chrysanthemums, Groom Rockefeller ended the ceremony with...
Several selections from the "Well Tempered Clavichord", often reproduced some what clumsily on the pianoforte, will be rendered on the harpsichord, an instrument very similar to the one for which these selections were originally written. Much of Bach's music was composed for the old-fashioned harpsichord. Mr. Whiting considers the combination of flute and harpsichord as the best medium of interpreting Bach's pieces, as it makes the best reproduction of the instrument on which Bach originally wrote...
...program included one of the sel- dom-heard English suites, selections from the Well-Tempered Clavichord, the Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue. There was even jollity in Mr. Samuel's rendition of the saraband of the English Suite...
...four, Mozart played the clavichord and wrote compositions still extant. At nine, his symphonies were played in London, he published six sonatas. At eleven, Mozart conducted his own court concerts at Vienna...