Word: wanda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Instrumental Solo: Bach's Goldberg Variations, by Harpsichordist Wanda Landowska (Victor...
...startling comeback-thanks largely to one woman. There has probably been more harpsichord-playing in New York in the past year than any time since the days of George Washington. Last week Manhattan harpsichord fans, a serious-minded lot, could hear either the master herself, stately, 67-year-old Wanda Landowska, or her most successful ex-pupil, Ralph Kirkpatrick...
...Mozart with a hard, dry purity-and sometimes, say critics, with a little too much banging. He long ago broke with Teacher Landowska, whose playing is more showy and dramatic. Says Kirkpatrick starchily: "Landowska is a great artist. But other artists take different ways. It generally means a break." Wanda Landowska also long ago stopped speaking of Kirkpatrick as her pupil. Says she: "Shall we say, my pupils must be my friends...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Sibelius' Symphony No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Mozart's Piano Concerto in C Major. Conductor: Artur Rodzinski. Soloist: Pianist Wanda Landowska...
...wife, the Soviet Army's Colonel Wanda Wasilewska, was to have accompanied her husband, but remained in Kiev fighting a cold...