Word: kirkpatrick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...probably been more harpsichord-playing in New York in the past year than any time since the days of George Washington. Last week Manhattan harpsichord fans, a serious-minded lot, could hear either the master herself, stately, 67-year-old Wanda Landowska, or her most successful ex-pupil, Ralph Kirkpatrick...
Most of the topflight harpsich rdists are Landowska-trained: Switzerland's Isabel Nef, Italy's Ruggero Gerlin, London's Lucille Wallace, Los Angeles' Alice Ehlers, Manhattan's Sylvia Marlowe (who sometimes swings it) and Ralph Kirkpatrick...
Collectors & Cranks. Kirkpatrick, who is now 35, was a sophomore at Harvard when he saw his first harpsichord-a museum piece. When he was graduated (he majored in art history) he went to France, studied at Landowska's academy at Saint-Leu-le-Forêt, gave his first public recital in Berlin in 1933. Today he plays about 70 recitals a season, and is glad to see his audiences spreading beyond the earnest, humorless cultists he once played to. Says he: "Audiences used to be largely record collectors and cranks who also liked folk dancing because...
...other nights last week New Yorkers could hear brilliant, brash Lenny Bernstein's New York City Symphony playing the new music that the older conductors ignore. They crowded into recitals by Singers Marian Anderson, Carol Brice and Giuseppe De Luca; concerts by Pianists John Kirkpatrick and Alexander Brailowsky (who in six programs is playing every solo piano piece Chopin wrote). There were folk songs and ballads, American songs by Tom Scott, South African veld songs by Josef Marais, and jive concerts all over the place...
Last week Sherman Bowles handed all his nonstriking help a week's pay for no work, said in a press release that it was "impossible to do business with the I.T.U." But nobody in Springfield was surprised to see him doing business with bespectacled Robert C. Kirkpatrick, the union's international representative. He was already calling him "Bob." And when Bob got a troublesome ear ailment, Bowles arranged for him to visit a clinic. So far he hadn't asked Bob up to the big Bowles house on Crescent Hill, which the sheriff had just sold...