Word: valenti
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presented free and open to the public--due to the munificence of Master Arthur Smithies--what was probably the most incandescent pair of performers of the entire Cambridge musical season: James Oliver Buswell IV, a sophomore concentrating in Fine Arts who is nonetheless an established professional violinist, and Fernando Valenti, one of the world's most revered, if himself somewhat irreverent, harpsichordists...
...Buswell it was the third major concert appearance in Cambridge this semester. This time the program consisted of the three even-numbered sonatas for violin and harpsichord by J. S. Bach, for which occasion Valenti's custom-made two-manual, seven-stop Challis (featuring among other things, a 16-foot stop and a metal sounding board) was carted up by station wagon from New York. The combined reputations of composer and performers insured a capacity audience, which as it turned out subsumed the entire range of musical appreciation from hedonism to intellectuality. Some came to analyze, some to envy...
...latter was almost impossible not to do. Generally speaking, Buswell and Valenti played their short, concentrated program with the aplomb and assurance of which only professionals are capable...
...VALENTI by contrast was poker-faced throughout the performance. Like Buswell he exhibited a modicum of uneasiness in the first sonata but went on to demonstrate the tremendous tensile strength of his fingers and, at the same, time, his amazing agility. His playing was motoric but not without subtleties of phrasing and dynamics. Together with Buswell, he was at his best when the music was at its most kinetic. At times his registration was somewhat arbitrary and misconceived, such as in the third movement of the Sonata in A, where he played the basso continuo left hand on the more...
...that efficiency, wisdom, gentleness, loyalty and protean energy have been employed by Watson, 43, in his combination job as office manager, political emissary and personal factotum to the President. Officially titled Appointments Secretary, he has been something of an unsmiling, unverbal, unpublicized Jack Valenti...