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Leverett House will be entertained by a concert on the harpsichord tomorrow following its seventh House dinner to be held at 6.30 o'clock. The concert will be given by Putnam Aldrich, who made his debut at a private recital in Cambridge last night, following his three years of study in France. Aldrich will play in the Junior Common Room and will be assisted in one number by Malcolm Holmes 1G at the plane...
Aldrich, a native of Providence, Rhode Island, studied abroad under Wanda Landowska, the famous pianist, who has specialized in the playing of the harpsichord and has brought about a revival of its former popularity. Since his return to America he has taught plane in Boston, and is new starting on a tour of the country...
...stage at Carnegie Hall, Manhattan, last week, made a solemn bow and, turning around, flipped his coat tails in the face of a smart Philharmonic-Symphony audience. The gesture was not one of disrespect. German Bruno Walter was just preparing to sit down before a keyboard, to play the harpsichord part of Handel's G Minor Concerto for Strings, also to conduct the orchestra. Sometimes his right hand, sometimes his left, flew from the keyboard long enough to let his will be emphatically known to violinists, 'cellists, viola and contrabass players. But he conducted for the most part by facial...
...complete program for tonight's concert follows: Concerto Grosso No. 8 Corelli Concerto in E major for Violin Bach Soloist, M. H. Holmes 3G. "A Hunter Riding Through the Green Woods" Hindemith For strings and flute, oboe, clarinet Concerto in D minor for Harpsichord Bach...
...first of these two concerts, presented by the string section only, will be featured by a solo on the harpsichord, an instrument rarely heard now, by R. L. Kirkpatrick '31, who will play the Bach Concerto in G. minor. M. H. Holmes 3G, violin soloist, will offer the Bach Concerto in E major...