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Memory & Spirit. Short, slight and urbane, Leonid is the younger brother of a better-known artist, Eugene Berman (TIME, May 24). He long ago dropped the Berman from his signature to avoid being confused with his brother, whom he followed to the U.S. three years ago. Married to Harpsichordist Sylvia Marlowe, he lives in Manhattan, paints mostly from memory. "When I was young," he says, "I painted outdoors and after three or four hours I was lost. But the more I am getting older the more I can paint without a subject. I made a drawing from nature for Port...
...Chandler Thomas' job to tell you about all the news in music: the rise of an attractive new jazz singer like Mindy Carson (TIME, Aug. 1); an account of the monumental recording task which Harpsichordist Wanda Landowska undertook in her 70th year (TIME, June 20); the controversial case of Composer Arnold Schoenberg (TIME, Nov. 15, 1948). This week the news is the Sadler's Wells Ballet company, the impact it has had on New York and will have on all the cities on its tour...
Last week, comfortable in blue knee-length socks, red fur-trimmed bedroom slippers and a loose-fitting smock, the great harpsichordist was finishing up the first sixth of a monumental recording task begun in her 70th year. In the darkened studio, her eyes closed, she began to play the great Prelude and Fugue No. 3 in C Sharp of Johann Sebastian Bach. Before the weekend was over, she had also played the rippling No. 6 in D Minor and the fugue of No. 7 in E Flat to complete the first eight of the 48 brain-and finger-cracking preludes...
Desirable in itself, the plan has also contributed to the achievements of former members. Randall Thompson '20, professor of Music and well-known choral composer, Virgil Thompson '24, Naumberg Professor of Music, harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick '31, and composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein '39 were all active members of the Harvard club during their college years...