Word: harpsichords
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...concert Mr. Whiting will play the harpsichord, the key board instrument which preceded the pianoforte, so that the audience may hear the exact sound of the music as it was written by the composers in the latter part of the eighteenth century. As the harpsichord is rarely used today, Mr. Whiting's performance will be a novelty full of unique and beautiful effects, a knowledge of which is essential to a proper understanding of the old music...
...concert, several noted soloists will assist Mr. Whiting in rendering the various selections on the program. Miss Loraine Wyman, a soprano, will sing a repertoire of old English and French songs. Mr. George Barrere, who plays the flute, will play several selections accompanied by Mr. Whiting at the harpsichord. The numbers which will be given include compositions by Bach, Mozart and Handel...
...Vienna Opera, complete with orchestra, singers, scenery and Herr Direktor Franz Schalk. It was part of an "official tour." Six operas were presented. There was no "modernizing," but the strictest possible adherence, to the purest Mozart traditions. Herr Schalk accompanied sections of the Don Giovanni on a harpsichord, that ancient ancestor of the pianoforte which Mozart himself loved for its faint and delicate tinkle. Restraint and sobriety characterized the whole set of performances?and the language used by the singers was German. Paris did not object...
...Miss Myrtle Brown, the Finale of Haydn's Farewell, Symphony, a Suite of Haendel, and a Largo of Corelli by the orchestra alone, a Grave by Humphries and a Canto Amoroso for violin played by Mario Montini accompanied by the orchestra, a Courant by Couperin for flute, cello, and harpsichord, La Gallina by Merula for oboe, bassoon and harpsichord and Concertos by Dall' Abaco and Bach for harpsichord, organ and orchestra...
Noted among the who's-who in portraiture: Hopkinson's Secretary Hughes, Childe Hassam's Governor Alfred E. Smith, of New York, Edmund C. Tarbell's Mary at the Harpsichord, Lillian Westcott Hale's child portrait study of Brothers, Frank Benson's Girl in Blue Jacket, and Marion Boyd Allen's presentment of Anna Vaughn Hyatt...