Word: harpsichords
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...during his spare time, C. P. E. managed to turn out some 700 compositions, many of them big in scale, revolutionary in manner, rich in quality. They set musical styles for a hundred years after his death. Among the most popular were 52 concertos for harpsichord and strings, some of which are still played in concerts today. Nine of them have been published, many have disappeared...
...Manhattan's Town Hall dour Wanda Landowska took her bow in a harpsichord recital which critics pronounced the finest tinkling of its kind. At Carnegie Hall a recital by dignified Pianist Egon Petri followed the recital of an indomitable U.S. lady violinist, Byrd Elliot, who perennially performs before an audience that would scarcely strain the capacity of an average front parlor. Baritone Yves Tinayre, accompanied by a troop of dramatic dancers, moaned the music of medieval French masters in a recital which one critic described as "constricted cooing...
Tonight in Sanders Theatre, Alexander Schneider, one of the Budapest Quartet's violinists, and Ralph Kirkpatrick '31 will play the second in their series of Bach and Mozart sonatas for violin and harpsichord. There is no excuse for not going to one of these concerts. Both artists are masters of their instruments, and no recordings of these sonatas, played as they should be played, with harpsichord accompaniment, are available...
...free, public, chamber music concerts will be given at Sanders Theatre, tonight and tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock by Ralph Kirkpatrick, harpsichord, and Alexander Schneider, violinist, of the Budapest String Quartet. No tickets are required...
There are exceptions. Some stations merely hired "disk-jockeys" to ride herd on swing records, in the traditional milkman's matinee style. WJZ, New York, evolved a six-hour, all-musical program in which every word except the news flashes is sung. A chorus, jam band and harpsichord render the station breaks in such senseless jingles as this...