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When Marie Antoinette heard about the Duchess of Villeroy's fine new piano, she wanted one too. Who had built it? A certain young architect and engineer of Strasbourg named Sebastian Erard. Then let Sebastian Erard make another one for Versailles, let it be embellished with painting, gold-leaf and ivory. The instrument won the admiration of the court. Thereafter Piano-Maker Erard had more work than he and his brother could...
...quartets. Mozart wrote of him: "How fortunate music would be if Pleyel could replace Haydn," but Composer Pleyel also turned to the manufacture of pianos. He played his pianos at the great courts of Europe, turned to farming in later life, died in 1831, the year of Sebastian Erard's death...
York University. New York likes to come and loll on the grass, wheel its babby-carriage up & down, drink its pop as Bandmaster Goldman plays from a large, catholic repertory: chorales and fugues of Johann Sebastian Bach, waltzes of Waldteufel, operatic gems and band transcriptions of modern works like Claude Achille Debussy's La Cathedrale Engloittie and Ottorino Respighi's Pines of Rome. Elsewhere throughout the city the band is also to be heard: its programs are sent by wire and amplifier to all Manhattan's public parks...
...learned the rudiments of the organ by himself in the old Moravian Church. It was mostly on his drugstore earnings that he began formal lessons with blind David Duffield Wood of Philadelphia, at 21 went to Munich where he became absorbed in the music of pious Kapellmeister Johann Sebastian Bach...
...Hylton and his orchestra (Victor, $1.25)-A famed British jazzman embroiders neat concert versions of two deserving songs. Dance Records: You're Lucky to Me and Memories of You (Okeh)-For those who like hot jazz with husky singing, husky trumpets. The band is Louis Armstrong's Sebastian New Cotton Club Orchestra. Embraceable You and / Got Rhythm (Victor)-Arden's and Ohman's- percussive ways are best suited to George Gershwin's music. The tunes are the best from Girl Crazy. Can This be Love? and Three Little Words (Columbia)-Two best-sellers mellowed...