Word: harpsichords
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...Bach on the harpsichord that offended, or his way with celestial navigation, or the servants, or the phone calls from Ronald Reagan. No: his worst affront seemed to be the custom chopped-and-stretched chauffeur-driven Cadillac with the partition and the special back-seat temperature control. It was not even the fact that William F. Buckley Jr. rides around in such a car, like a Mafia don in his land yacht, that gave some reviewers eczema. It was the way that he wrote about it, with such a blithe air of entitlement. No right-wing intellectual...
...idea that infants can start acquiring an education has tempted ambitious parents for centuries. At the age of three, John Stuart Mill learned Greek, and Mozart was playing the harpsichord. Both were taught by their hard-driving fathers. Today, New York City's fashionable nursery schools not only interview two year olds (and charge their anxious parents $1,200 a year for two mornings of schooling a week), but they also report applications outrunning openings by as much...
...19th century liberal lives in a beautifully preserved row house in a cobblestone mews just off Washington Square. Geraniums blossom in the window boxes. Two gray-and-black cats frolic around the harpsichord. Near by stands the cello, on which Sennett has been practicing Beethoven's A-Major Sonata...
CLASSICAL: Carol Lieberman, baroque violin, and Mark Kroll, harpsichord and fortepiano; music of LeDuc, Moxart, Bach and Balbastre; Grand Ballroom East, Park Plaza Hotel; Thursday...
Musical Evening--John Tyson, recorder, and Tom Pixton, harpsichord; music of Bach, Couperin, Telemann and Stein; Peasant Stock Restaurant, 415 Washington St., Somerville...