Word: harpsichords
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Nothing to celebrate tonight? Consider all of the unbirthdays that the nation's mayors, Governors, and even Presidents have provided. If you missed cherishing May 1 as Give Your Girl a Pearl Day, there is still ample time to observe International Play-Your-Own-Harpsichord Month, which is also National Tavern Month. Have a Bach beer...
Mozart: Sonata No. 9; Haydn: Sonata No. 34 and Andante and Variations in F Minor (Wanda Landowska: Victrola). These three tender, highly personal performances-not at the harpsichord, but at the piano-were recorded in the last three years of Landowska's life. Haydn's Andante and Variations is especially endearing for its full measure of romantic freedom...
...graceful love ballad, I Need You to Turn To, John plays the harpsichord with a delicate touch that creates just the right pinch of pink-cheeked, Highland-flavored romance. Songs like My Father's Gun and Talking Old Soldiers show the clear influence of The Band in their concern, respectively, for the history of the old American South and the ever-present pain of growing old. It is an influence freely and proudly conceded by the composers. One thing most of the songs have in common is a relentless rhythmic build-up from a quiet beginning. Burn Down...
...half of Dylan's. We are flooded with pop music pouring out from our radios and stereos, and gladly immerse ourselves in it. Now, thanks to Ginsberg, we can bathe in the light of Blake's poetry as sung by Ginsberg and his friend Peter Orlovsky, and accompanied on harpsichord, guitar, laughter, and other instruments. The range of musical styles is amazing-from the madrigal-like version of "The Blossom" to the country and western sound of "The Garden of Love." Buy the record, listen to it half a dozen times, and you will find yourself humming and singing "Night...
Bundle for Britain. In person, Kaplan, son of a Manhattan textile man, is hardly as flamboyant as his productions. He takes a novice gourmet's interest in food and wine, but he lives simply in a three-bedroom bachelor apartment. He plays the harpsichord and is studying Japanese because he feels that Japan will be "the country of the future." He muses about how he might help "to unlock some of those billions managed by our readers so that they benefit society instead of private interests." To that end, he is investigating ways of directing investments into city slums...