Word: harpsichords
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...make himself and his performers the whole show -which he rejected. "That's fine for a genius like Karajan," he says. "I wanted people to be able to sample various ways of looking at Bach." So he brought in Rosalyn Tureck for an intensely wrought solo recital on harpsichord and piano. Margaret Hillis, director of the Chicago Symphony Chorus, led a sometimes wayward program of vocal and orchestral works that ended solidly on the Magnificat. Harpsichordist Anthony Newman "and friends" sped their dazzling, often unorthodox way through an evening of chamber pieces...
Ariel Chamber ensemble--works of Schubert, Falla, and Schonberg; Louis Bagger, harpsichord; Susan Larson, Soprano and sprechstimme; Sanders Theater...
Vitali, Aibinoni-- Violin and harpsichord concert, Museum of Fine Arts...
Music for Violin and Harpsichord by Biber and Handel--Dunster House Library...
...afternoon, Swiss time. Conservative Columnist William Buckley knows just what he will be doing: starting his third novel. The author of Saving the Queen and Stained Glass is going to Rougemont, Switzerland, and has set aside five weeks to churn out another thriller. Après-ski and pre-harpsichord practice, Buckley, 52, plans to produce 1,500 words a day. Why the regimen? "The 20th century notion that you should stare at the ceiling until the afflatus [inspiration] hits you is self-indulgent," harrumphs Buckley, who does admit to slight concern about having no plot...