Word: yella
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bach: Musical Offering (Yella Pessl, harpsichord, four strings, four wood winds; Victor: 10 sides). First recording, and a fine one, of the ingenious fugues, canons and sonata in which Bach tossed every which way a theme given him by King Frederick the Great (TIME...
...clucks and scratches sound like a hen yard. The strings of the harpsichord, controlled by a full keyboard and pedals, are plucked by quills, instead of being struck by hammers like the piano's. For an oldtimer, the harpsichord is still stepping lively. Last week Vienna-born Yella Pessl, who has given 70-odd harpsichord programs on the radio (CBS) since last June, returned to the air after a brief vacation. While she was away, her place had been taken by comely Harpsichordist Sylvia Marlowe, who plink-a-plunked not only 18th-Century tunes but rolling, rocking-rhythmed...