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Harpsichords. In Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium one night last week swart Pianist-Conductor Jose Iturbi turned on a little-known facet of his exuberant talent. A harpsichordist for 26 years who has studied with the most publicized exponent of that ancient instrument, Mme Wanda Landowska, he tinkled bravely through a Haydn concerto, conducting the orchestra on the side as all performers did in the harpsichord's heyday, the first half of the 18th Century...
Besides Mme Landowska, who teaches her pupils a somewhat hard, dry touch, contemporary harpsichordists include John Challis of Ypsilanti, Mich., Lewis Richards of the University of Michigan, Ralph Kirkpatrick of Leominster, Mass. A good harpsichord today costs anywhere from...
Aldrich, a native of Providence, Rhode Island, studied abroad under Wanda Landowska, the famous pianist, who has specialized in the playing of the harpsichord and has brought about a revival of its former popularity. Since his return to America he has taught plane in Boston, and is new starting on a tour of the country...
...success there will accompany him the kind of press stories the public most eagerly devours. Many will be interested to know now that he likes apples, oysters, caviar, expensive cigars; that he plays good tennis, boxes, dances, does subtle imitations of Charlie Chaplin, Lon Chaney, Pianists Wanda Landowska and George Gershwin; that O'Rossen of Paris makes his clothes, Chanel his perfume; that he is inevitably late save for engagements of one sort. When he is scheduled to appear in concert he is always meticulously prompt for he feels it a grave responsibility to be José Iturbi, Spain...
...Wanda Landowska Harold Samuel...