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Ives: Sonata No. 2, "Concord" (John Kirkpatrick, pianist; Columbia, 9 sides). Written around 1913 by the long "forgotten" U.S. composer who is a recluse in Connecticut, this sonata, has been called "the greatest music composed by an American," which is neither true nor saying so much as it seems to. Listeners will find it hard digging at first, but there is gold there. The performance is better than the dull recording...
...inter-war period added such familiar names to the roster as Virgil Thomson '22, music critic of the New York Herald-Tribune, Walter Piston '24, recently named Naumberg Professor of Music whose Third Symphony was awarded the Pulitzer Music Prize this week, and G. Wallace Woodworth '24. Ralph Kirkpatrick '31, famed harpsichordist of the duo, Schneider and Kirkpatrick, was a featured performer in the group during his college days...
Apathy took a holiday last week. For three successive evenings Sanders was as packed as the fire regulations would allow by an audience that listened in perfect silences to Alexander Schneider and Ralph Kirkpatrick play Back, Mozart, and Scarlatti, and them stomped, cheered, and shouted for more...
...something of a formality to add that Kirkpatrick, on the harpsichord, and Schneider, on the violin, performed with unusual sensitivity and balance. Harpsichord or no harpsichord, Mozart, Bach, and Scarlatti can sound as they did last week only when played by uncommonly fine artists...
...Ralph Kirkpatrick and Alexander Schneider, harpsichord-violin due, offered the first in their series of three free concerts last night in Sanders Theatre. Tonight's program, made up entirely of works of Bach, will continue the series, which will conclude tomorrow evening. Concerts start at 8:15 o'clock and are open to the public without tickets...