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...votes had been added after the returns reached Atlanta). And they were poking around in Rockingham precinct (one of the two precincts in the state which gave Hummon, a write-in candidate, more votes than the regular Democratic nominee, ol' Gene). The Journal's Managing Editor William Kirkpatrick contentedly indicated that he still had a few more firecrackers to shoot...
...answer to Harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick's statement [TIME, Feb. 3] that "audiences used to be largely . . . cranks who also liked folk dancing because it was pure and sexless," I step forward boldly to defend the thousands of folk dancers both men & women in the U.S. Lusty, earthy, folk dancing is as "pure" an expression of the people's simple joys as the "pure" tone Mr. Kirkpatrick clanks out of his antiquated instrument. ... If anything can be charged with the character of sexlessness, it is certainly the harpsichord, whose voice is hard and chill, and rather exemplifies suppressed desires...
Mozart: Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord (Alexander Schneider, violin, and Ralph Kirkpatrick, harpsichord; Columbia, 12 sides). A first-rate sonata team making itself at home in the 18th Century. They play Mozart's melodious Sonatas in C Major, B Flat Major and G Major. (Alexander Schneider is an alumnus of the great Budapest String Quartet; brother Mischa still plays in it.) Performance: excellent...
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...