Word: harpsichordists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Music will be under the direction of Claude Chaisson, harpsichordist, while the lighting effects will be created by Freedom H. Ainsworth...
Harpsichords. In Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium one night last week swart Pianist-Conductor Jose Iturbi turned on a little-known facet of his exuberant talent. A harpsichordist for 26 years who has studied with the most publicized exponent of that ancient instrument, Mme Wanda Landowska, he tinkled bravely through a Haydn concerto, conducting the orchestra on the side as all performers did in the harpsichord's heyday, the first half of the 18th Century...
...good way for sons of musicians to occupy their time and bring the family kudos is to be prodigious. Little Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a harpsichordist at three, a composer at four. Ludwig van Beethoven fiddled at five; Johann Sebas tian Bach permitted himself, a small moppet, to be discovered poring over music at night in the garret. But Bob and Ted Maier, five-and six-year-old sons of Guy Maier, who was Lee Pattison's two-piano partner until last March (TIME, March 2), are no altruistic prodigies. They compose and write lyrics only when bribed...
...Paine Concert Hall in the Music Building. The concert, which will be composed entirely of chamber music, is the first of the two public appearances of the orchestra in Paine. Hall this year. Soloist for the performance will be M. H. Holmes 3G, violinist, and R. L. Kirkpatrick '31, harpsichordist...