harpsichordist
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harpsichordists
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The 56-year-old harpsichordist, pianist, music director and educator has been a leading figure in the Pacific Northwest’s early music scene since the 1990s.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 24, 2023
For his return to Carnegie Hall on Thursday evening, though, the superb harpsichordist Jean Rondeau turned them off.
From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2022
To a listener seated relatively close to the stage, the impression was that of eavesdropping on a harpsichordist in another room, improvising in a modern musical language.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2021
She was born Lois Nilson in Worcester, Mass. A classically trained harpsichordist, pianist and organist, she was a part of the Washington classical music scene for nearly 40 years.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 2, 2021
He was an indifferent violinist, and the other players were disposed to make a butt of him, although he was known to be an accomplished harpsichordist.
From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock) Mathews
Only a handful of harpsichordists have become well known, let alone stars.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2021
Bach, a canon to which she dedicated her life as one of the world’s premier harpsichordists, died Sept. 27 at a hospital in Prague.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 28, 2017
But British harpsichordists snapped up his works when they were published, and Charles Avison, the program’s one native Englishman, alluded to Scarlatti’s pieces in his own concertos.
From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2012
There were also fine individual performances in the chamber works, by Beth Wenstrom and Liv Heym, violinists; Emi Ferguson, flutist; Priscilla Smith, oboist; Aya Hamada and Jeffrey Grossman, harpsichordists; and others.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2010
But, as on earlier discs, these exquisitely cultivated Chicago harpsichordists leave out the oomph which was Bach's.
From Time Magazine Archive
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