Word: gamba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Musical Evening--Anthony Martin, Linda Quan and Nancy Wilson, violins, Mitzl Myerson, harpslchord, and Alice Robbins, viola da gamba; Peasant Stock Restaurant, 415 Washington St., Somerville...
...thoroughly hated, and always interrupted by some stroke of wit or humour ... so far from writing, [he] scarcely ever read a book-but, for a letter to an intimate friend, he had few equals." He loved music, and entertained his friends by playing the harpsichord and the viola da gamba. "Liberal, thoughtless, and dissipated," he called himself, and admired (without particularly envying it) the application of sturdier and more evenminded talents like that of Sir Joshua Reynolds, the president of the Royal Academy. "Painting & Punctuality mix like Oil & Vinegar," he reflected...