Word: harpsichordists
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John Challis, who is a first-rate harpsichordist himself, was born in Ypsilanti 36 years ago, the son of a jeweler and watchmaker. While at Michigan State Normal College (where he studied piano and organ), he heard his first clavichord, decided to make one. His handiwork was so successful that he went to England to study ancient instruments with Arnold Dolmetsch...
...Mystery. C. P. E.'s long-lost concertos have had a way of turning up in unexpected places. Recently Toronto musical circles have been celebrating the discovery of a rich cache of 14 C. P. E. concertos. To do them justice, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. brought world-famed Harpsichordist Wanda Landowska to Toronto and set her to work playing the concertos, one by one, in a series of Sunday evening broadcasts...
Next Tuesday the orchestra will assist in a concert by Putnam Aldrich, harpsichordist...
...confused with Ernst Wolff, lieder singer, or Ernst Victor Wolff, pianist and harpsichordist...
...takes a muted trumpet chorus in the Cootie Williams tradition. The boys wind up with a lot of whacky riffs which give Shaw opportunity to show a little technique if nothing else. Reverse is called When the Quail Come Back to San Quentin, and Scarlatti would have appreciated what harpsichordist Johnny Guarneri does to some of his own ideas (VICTOR)...Benny Goodman's latest twelve inch recording, Superman, is another elaborate Eddie Sauter orchestration, and features Cootie Williams pyrotechnics all the way through. There's also some tenor sax by Georgie Auld, who gets the same dirty tone...