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Ansbach, Germany, for no reason except enthusiasm and the fact that the old Bach stronghold, Leipzig, is now behind the Iron Curtain, puts on its annual Bach festival (July 23-30). On hand: Spanish Guitarist Andrés Segovia, U.S. Harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick. Featured choral work: the B-Minor Mass...
John Houk (B) defeated Ham Gravem, 6-2, 6-3; Alex Haegler (H) defeated George Kirkpatrick, 3-6, 10-8, 8-6; Conrad Fischer (H) defeated Nat Greene, 4-6, 6-4, 7-5; Brooks Harris (H) defeated Webb Ray, 7-5, 7-5; Dan Mayers (H) defeated Larry Waterman, 6-2, 8-6; Maynard Canfield (H) defeated Ian Sinclair...
Brown suffers from a lack of depth, though the top three men all have good games. In first position, Captain John Houck, who is very steady, was one of the top ranking players in New England last year. George Kirkpatrick and Nat Greene respectively both have aggressive games...
...direct musical descendant of modern harpsichord greats (he is a pupil of Ralph Kirkpatrick, who is a pupil of Wanda Landowska), Fernando Valenti thinks harpsichordists must play for wider and wider audiences if interest in the instrument is not to die out. He is building a reputation as one of the most imaginative harpsichordists in the U.S., giving some 20 solo recitals a year and lecturing about the music he plays. Valenti has begun a musical marathon: recording all 555 of Scarlatti's gemlike Sonatas (for Westminster). In the past three years he has completed 72, but half seriously...
Bach and Scarlatti were precise contemporaries yet the coupling of their works produced a striking juxta-position. The immensely powerful, almost gruff joyfulness of Bach's final variation and the lofty simplicity of the closing aria still lingered in my mind as Mr. Kirkpatrick returned after intermission and performed in immediate succession three 1) major Scarlatti sonatas which displayed to an extreme degree elements of exotic Spanish fury. These elements are all the more powerful in Scarlatti because they seem to burst forth from the refined and lyrical Italian style in which he was trained. For me, Mr. Kirkpatrick...