Word: harpsichordist
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...Korsakov and Bizet. Rather, he uses irregular rhythms, unresolved harmonic tensions, and occasional folk tunes to create an atmosphere of barely concealed Latin violence. The jangling sound of the harpsichord and an accompaniment reduced to five instruments further the effect and connote its inspiration: the sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti. Harpsichordist Melville Smith and his ensemble did full justice to lyrical elements in the score, but they lacked the precision essential to this music; a conductor would have helped immeasureably...
Wanda Landowska at Home (Sun. 4 p.m., NBC). The famed harpsichordist interviewed...
Sylvia Marlowe (New Editions). A sampling of four living composers played by Harpsichordist Marlowe and her Harpsichord Quartet. The program: Alan Hovhaness' Quartet, a kind of musical still life that is less aggressively oriental than this composer's usual efforts; John Lessard's Toccata, a work of driving insistence that makes full use of the harpsichord's jangling, percussive qualities; Virgil Thomson's Sonata No. 4, a neatly drawn portrait in sound (of Art Patron Peggy Guggenheim) composed in an enigmatically old-fashioned style * and Vittorio Rieti's Sonata all' Antica...
This was the group's second concert of the season, and it surpassed the first in many ways. The balance between instruments was much better; harpsichordist Erwin Bodky played with more restraint, and the entire ensemble gave precise, well though-out performances...
...large and two small) and strings, it was the highlight of the evening. Because of the nearly perfect blending of timbre among the instruments, this is one work which is virtually untranscribable for any other combination. Daniel Pinkham, Harvard's only representative in the group, is a very fine harpsichordist, but unfortunately he was drowned out by Bodky's overly percussive playing...