Word: lessard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sylvia Marlowe (New Editions). A sampling of four living composers played by Harpsichordist Marlowe and her Harpsichord Quartet. The program: Alan Hovhaness' Quartet, a kind of musical still life that is less aggressively oriental than this composer's usual efforts; John Lessard's Toccata, a work of driving insistence that makes full use of the harpsichord's jangling, percussive qualities; Virgil Thomson's Sonata No. 4, a neatly drawn portrait in sound (of Art Patron Peggy Guggenheim) composed in an enigmatically old-fashioned style * and Vittorio Rieti's Sonata all' Antica...