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...years, the jangle and warble of her strings was heard at Saint-Leu-La-Forêt, a green suburb of Paris where Landowska established her Ecole de Musique Ancienne. Here she lived, after her husband's death in 1919, among her 10,000 books and manuscripts, her pupils, her ancient instrument and nine dogs. Music lovers from all over the world came to her villa and concert hall. The 2 o'clock train that left Paris every Sunday for Saint-Leu, 30 minutes away, was referred to by station guards as "Mme. Landowska's train...
Charles Livingston, a Bowdoin professor of French, has written a book in 13th century French called "Le Jongleur Gautier le Leu." He is presently in Macon, France supervising its production for the Press...
...Although she is as spry and sparkling-eyed as ever ("I feel as young as a child"), Landowska has given up touring. In the last few years, she has also given up the idea of returning to her once-famed Ecole de Musique Ancienne at picturesque Saint-Leu-La-Forêt near Paris, from which she fled in 1940 before the Nazis took over...
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...
...another wall are seven German drawings. They belong to the sixteenth century but most of them are in ink and are religious in subject. Such for instance is the strange "Pieta" by Hans Leu. Secular and strikingly handsome is the large portrait of Susanna of Bavaria, in crayon on a green ground, by Durer. In sharp contrast is the tragic portrait of a leper, by Holbein...